Montenegrin weapons

[KraVseR]

Hello!
What weapon used by Montenegrin soldiers in the 19th century? Interested firearms and cold weapons. I see muskets, yatagans, revolvers, mameluke sabres... But I need concretization.

[KraVseR]

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[TVV]

KraVseR,

The best reference on ethnographic weapons from the Balkans is Robert Elgood: "The Arms of Greece and Her Balkan Neighbors": a reasonably priced copy should still be available through the major on-line bookstores. If you are looking for references on the standard edged weapons, then maybe you should try to find Холодное оружие Сербии, Черногории, Югославии by Богданович (ISBN 978-5-903389-34-6, the publisher is from Moscow). I believe Branko Bogdanovich also has books on the firearms in what was once Yugoslavia, but since this has never been within my area of interest, I cannot give you any specifics.

Good luck,
Teodor

[KraVseR]

Thanks of course, but I need only determine the weapon from the figures above.

Here I do not know if this is yataghan, sludge can have some sort of the varieties that?

[rickystl]

Hello.
First of all, thank you for posting these photos. I saved three of them for my library.
If you will refer to your 2nd, 10th, and 17th photo you will notice a long gun/musket with a fish tail type butt stock. This gun is generally known as an Albanian Tanchika long gun. These guns were produced during the 18th and early 19th Century. Albania was an arms producing center in the Balkans primarily during this period.
Here is a photo of that gun. I have additional photos if you desire. Rick.

[rickystl]

Hello again.
Here is a silver celina or ledenica pistol that was probably made for the Montenegrin market during the late 18th or early 19th Century.
If you refer to your 1st, 2nd, 9th, and especially 10th photos above you will see the similarities to this pistol. Again, hope this helps. Rick.