An unusual stiletto depicted in Indo-Persian miniatures.

ausjulius · Yesterday, 10:11 PM

The Mongols, kipchaks and their ancestors had a number of armour piercing dagger like weapons. . Hence the word for a dagger in many middle eastern, arabic, , Slavic and such languages in based on the Mongol and Turkic word for a dagger. Khanjar, kinzhal, kinjal and so on. I
I'd imagine such or similar weapons were infact very common with these nomads in the mediaeval period but we simple don't see them often. Just like examples of their swords s are rare. Not because they didn't have them but because they didn't have a place to keep them for 800 years. Nomads C cultures isn't good with that.
Among the bulgar Tatars various armour piercing knives and daggers were produced and retained as status items up until the 18th -19th century as was the chechuga sabre which by the 1800 was a bit archaic in Russia.
You can also see quite a few sabres with armour piercing tips on the Mongols swords from the mediaeval period.
Id say these things were probably very common infact. Just as they were in mediaeval Europe considering how common armour was .
But we just don't get many surviving examples and I think those nomads got fast assimilated into whatever cultures they conquered pretty fast. And it was hardly like people collected and catalogued these things either.
In Europe we have had people making Museums since the mediaeval period and storing old weapons in them. So we have this insane array of items catalogued but no doubt in other cultures there wasa y interesting things that have just vanished that were probably once common

Yesterday, 10:11 PM	#4
ausjulius Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: musorian territory Posts: 476	The Mongols, kipchaks and their ancestors had a number of armour piercing dagger like weapons. . Hence the word for a dagger in many middle eastern, arabic, , Slavic and such languages in based on the Mongol and Turkic word for a dagger. Khanjar, kinzhal, kinjal and so on. I I'd imagine such or similar weapons were infact very common with these nomads in the mediaeval period but we simple don't see them often. Just like examples of their swords s are rare. Not because they didn't have them but because they didn't have a place to keep them for 800 years. Nomads C cultures isn't good with that. Among the bulgar Tatars various armour piercing knives and daggers were produced and retained as status items up until the 18th -19th century as was the chechuga sabre which by the 1800 was a bit archaic in Russia. You can also see quite a few sabres with armour piercing tips on the Mongols swords from the mediaeval period. Id say these things were probably very common infact. Just as they were in mediaeval Europe considering how common armour was . But we just don't get many surviving examples and I think those nomads got fast assimilated into whatever cultures they conquered pretty fast. And it was hardly like people collected and catalogued these things either. In Europe we have had people making Museums since the mediaeval period and storing old weapons in them. So we have this insane array of items catalogued but no doubt in other cultures there wasa y interesting things that have just vanished that were probably once common