A Short History of Backgammon
Willy Chaplin's backgammon program was born of a back injury. That is, when Willy was bedridden with a severe back problem in 1978, he set up a small table on the bed and proceeded6.0

Roman Board Games -- Tabula
Popular with soldiers, Tabula reached Arabia by Roman expansion into the Mideast in the first century AD.

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Backgammon is one of the oldest and most popular board  games in history, spanning three continents and more than five
thousand years.Online Single- and Multi-Player Games - Backgammon

Backgammon Galore
Backgammon has been around a long time, with origins dating back possibly 5000 years. The ancient Greeks played. So did the Romans. The game we know today was refined in England in the seventeenth century, which is also when it acquired the name backgammon.

BACKGAMMON
Backgammon is an ancient dice game which spread to the United States in the 17th century, but it was created thousands of years before that. The beginning of the game is uncertain, but a 5,000 year old backgammon board was found at the site of an ancient Sumerian town.

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The game can be traced more than 5000 years back in time to ancient Mesopotamia, in the area that today is Iraq. Later variations on the game has been located in several other age-old civilizations, e.g. India, Japan, Korea and Thailand.

Columbus: Backgammon
The COLUMBUS team has traveled around the world searching for traditional, fascinating games at their places of origin to bring them to your home now. One of our journeys took us to the Orient where we found Backgammon

Salar's Backgammon
What you will find in this little corner of the Net, is all about backgammon. I have taken some time to look into the history of the game.

PlaySite - Backgammon History
Backgammon is sometimes called the "aristocrat of games." The origin of the game goes back to ancient Greek and Egyptian times. It is said that the game was carried by the Roman centurions throughout Europe, where it was known as "tables."

The Trictrac Home Page
Trictrac is a rich, formal game that was immensely popular in French society prior to the revolution. The game was so closely with the courts of Louis XIV, Louis XV and Louis XVI that during the revolution, most Trictrac boards were destroyed as symbols of the monarchy.