european blade?

[fernando]

Originally Posted by celtan

Interesting.

Rumanians were christians, but these have a definite muslim/turkish appearance...

These aquareles were the first depiction of peoples ever made 'on the field'; the author was certainly a shrewd observer but not a schoolled painter, instead visibly a naïve artist.
The description of weaponry by Correia (or and other cronichlers)may not necessarily coincide with the designs.

Originally Posted by celtan

... The Meca and Basra Straits lie on opposite sides of Saudi Arabia, Rumania lies in South Eastern Europe. Perhaps the Rumes mentioned and portrayed were arabic descendants of Romanians?

Peoples move and migrate; when Gaspar Correia reported on the Rumes type of weaponry, they were participating in the first siege of Diu (1538).

Fernando