Period Photos of People with Ethnographic Arms

[Maurice]

Originally Posted by gp

I never forget the first time I arrived in Sarajevo and Kotor on motorbike in 1985, I was asked where I came from. On my reply “ Maastricht”, they asked where that was. When I said “Limburg” a big long laughter followed.

Hi GP,

Thank you for posting the nice photos.
Greetings from another resident of (south) Limburg

[Pertinax]

Nubians. Sudan, second half of the 19th century

[AvtoGaz]

Armenian from Moks region

Bit hard to see, but he has a Khanjar dagger and a curved saber. From what I have been able to tell the swords used in the very easternmost part of the Ottoman Empire by Armenians and Kurds were more similar to Persian Shamshirs or Transcaucasian/Georgian Khmali sabers than to the classic Turkish Kilic. The Yatagan was also not widely used there.

[gp]

as in a yataghan topic, the Balkan Wars was mentioned, enclosed a few pics from the men involved...

Albanian, Greek, Montenegrin, Bulgarian, Serbian

[gp]

Albanian, Greek and Bulgarian gents

[gp]

some pics of men in the Middle East around 1890 -1910;
Kurds and Druzes amongst them

[gp]

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