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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 9th June 2020, 10:59 AM
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Posted By ariel
This painting is quite interesting. On this Forum...

This painting is quite interesting. On this Forum we had many discussions about potential uses of Yataghans. Often, there were opinions that Yataghans were not fighting military weapons, but rather ...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 18th May 2020, 06:05 AM
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Posted By ariel
Fully agree.

Fully agree.
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 18th May 2020, 06:01 AM
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Posted By ariel
Thanks, I was unaware of those publications. ...

Thanks, I was unaware of those publications.
However, none of them have been cited by Astvatsaturian or Yasar either.

As to your statement that Soviet-Yugoslav relations were rosy till the death...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 17th May 2020, 02:11 PM
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Posted By ariel
By the way, in Russian, where a good chunk of its...

By the way, in Russian, where a good chunk of its vocabulary is of Turkish ( not necessarily Ottoman, but much earlier, back to the Mongolian invasion) the word Sarai ( Сарай) designates not a...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 30th November 2019, 08:01 PM
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Posted By ariel
Well, if you think that all things Ottoman are...

Well, if you think that all things Ottoman are Turkish, that would greatly simplify your provenancing :-)
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 30th November 2019, 06:47 AM
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Posted By ariel
Ottoman Yataghans were assembled from...

Ottoman Yataghans were assembled from mass-produced blades coming largely from Anatolia and Balkans ( Bosnia, mainly). Wherever they landed, their further fate was to fall into the hands of a local...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 17th July 2019, 04:02 PM
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Posted By ariel
Teodor, Precisely. The art of niello ,...

Teodor,
Precisely.
The art of niello , according to Circassian master Asia Eutykh, was brought to Caucasus by the Greeks. She traces her name to somebody names Eutyhios.
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 17th July 2019, 03:55 PM
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Posted By ariel
Kubur, Yataghans, with the exception of Zeibek...

Kubur,
Yataghans, with the exception of Zeibek ones, cannot be attributed by their blades. The latter were produced en masse in unknown centers in Anatolia and the Balkans. Sarajevo is perhaps the...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 17th July 2019, 05:55 AM
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Posted By ariel
Astvatsaturian’s book is based exclusively on the...

Astvatsaturian’s book is based exclusively on the materials from the State Historical Museum ( Kremlin) and, in a smaller part, from St. Petersburg collection ( Hermitage? I am too lazy to check her...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 16th July 2019, 11:59 PM
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Posted By ariel
I also agree with Teodor: rehilted Cretan...

I also agree with Teodor: rehilted Cretan yataghan.
As to attributing it to the Ottoman Empire, let’s not forget that in the early 19 century Balkans, Crete, Greece were all parts of it.
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