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1st November 2008, 05:21 PM
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Nice one Battara!
But when you'd like to say Foča, just write Focha.  It is usual that scabbards are lesser quality. I guess that beeing so 'cos usually thoose daggers were carried thrust through the belt in such manner that only the hilt could be seen. |
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1st November 2008, 09:53 PM
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OH, I don't know.....I think the scabbard is kind of cute...
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5th December 2010, 05:34 AM
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Interesting note: according to Elgood (The Arms of Greece and her Balkan Neighbors in the Ottoman Period, p. 51) this little knife is called a mali noz, a close quarter knife.
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5th December 2010, 06:23 AM
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Mali noz would literally mean small knife, as opposed to dugi noz or long knife, which again according to Elgood is how the Bosnians somtimes called the yataghan. That being said, both of them were for close quarters combat, were they not?
Regards, Teodor |
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6th December 2010, 02:47 AM
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I guess one closer than the other.
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