New artifact: Falcata? Shamshir? Karabela?

ariel · 25th August 2005, 02:48 AM

This simple yataghan is likely to come from Eastern Anatolia or neaby lands that were formerly a part of the Ottoman Empire: Syria, Western Iraq etc. For some reasons, they favoured T-handled Yataghans, just like the Balkan nations prefered Yataghans with massive and elaborate ivory/horn grips and corals. Yataghans from Turkey proper mostly had rather small ears and Greeks liked handles with indentations for fingers.
De gustibus non disputandum (no arguing about the taste).

25th August 2005, 02:48 AM	#1
ariel Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Ann Arbor, MI Posts: 5,503	This simple yataghan is likely to come from Eastern Anatolia or neaby lands that were formerly a part of the Ottoman Empire: Syria, Western Iraq etc. For some reasons, they favoured T-handled Yataghans, just like the Balkan nations prefered Yataghans with massive and elaborate ivory/horn grips and corals. Yataghans from Turkey proper mostly had rather small ears and Greeks liked handles with indentations for fingers. De gustibus non disputandum (no arguing about the taste).