Ottoman Hancer for translation

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Originally Posted by mariusgmioc

these daggers are very similar to the Persian khanjars and have absolutely no correspondence in any early Balcanic weaponry.
So I think the attribution of these daggers to the Balkans is completely wrong,

I fully agree!

Originally Posted by mariusgmioc

like the attribution to the so called ottoman "court daggers"... for example (that in Turkey are called Kama - see the fragment of a photo from the Istanbul Military Museum - pointing out clearly to their Persian/Caucasian origin).

Well court daggers with straigth blades were Bosnians, on your photo its an old Turkish dagger and the kama is a kind of kindjal if i'm not mistaken... So we are talking about 3 different things...