Ambel

Ambel is a municipality located in the province of Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain. According to the 2004 census (INE), the municipality had a population of 334 inhabitants.

The Ville of Ambel, has a Spanish-language web site: www.ambel.org

Coordinates: 41°48′N 1°37′W / 41.800°N 1.617°W / 41.800; -1.617

Halet Çambel

Halet Çambel (27 August 1916 – 12 January 2014) was a Turkish fencer and archaeologist. She was the first Muslim woman to compete in the Olympic Games.

Life

Çambel was born in Berlin in 1916, as her mother, Remziye Hanım, was the daughter of Ibrahim Hakki Pasha, a former sadrazam and the Ottoman ambassador to Germany at the time. Her father, Hasan Cemil Çambel, was closely associated with Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, founder of the Turkish Republic.

She received undergraduate training in archaeology at the Sorbonne University in Paris and received a doctorate in 1940 at the University of Istanbul.

She competed in the women's individual foil event at the 1936 Summer Olympics. Çambel was the first Muslim woman to compete in the Olympics. Although invited by a "female German official" to meet Hitler, Çambel refused on political grounds.

On returning to Istanbul after the Olympics, she began her association with Nail Çakırhan, a Communist poet who became a celebrated architect. They were married for 70 years until his death in October 2008.