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Haitian Basketball Federation

The governing body of basketball in Haiti.

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ3741275 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Haitian Basketball Federation (FHB) (French: Fédération Haïtienne de Basket-Ball) is the governing body of basketball in Haiti. It was founded in 1970 and members of the FIBA since its formation.

The Fédération Haïtienne de Basket-Ball operates the Haiti national team and organizes the Coupe d'Haïti (Haitian Cup) and the national championships.

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“Haitian Basketball Federation” enters the record as the governing body of basketball in Haiti. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Haitian, Basketball and Federation can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1970—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1970. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Haitian, Basketball and Federation.
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“Haitian Basketball Federation” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Haitian, Basketball and Federation provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3741275. VIAF identifies the subject as 5016154198321920230007. 1 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1970.

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This entry incorporates text from “Haitian Basketball Federation” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.