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Antiquarian
An antiquarian or antiquary (from the Latin: antiquarius, meaning pertaining to ancient times) is an aficionado or student of antiquities or things of the past.
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Épée
The modern épée derives from the 19th-century Épée de Combat (itself a derivative of the French small sword), and is the largest and heaviest of the three weapons used in sport fencing.
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Backsword
A backsword is a type of sword characterised by having a single-edged blade and a hilt with a single-handed grip.
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Baselard
The baselard (also basilard, baslard, in Middle French also badelare, bazelaire and variants, latininzed baselardus, basolardus etc., in Middle High German beseler, baseler, basler, pasler; baslermesser) is a historical type of dagger or short sword of the Late Middle Ages.
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Basket-hilted sword
The basket-hilted sword is a sword type of the early modern era characterised by a basket-shaped guard that protects the hand.
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Cantonese
The Cantonese language is a variety of Chinese spoken in the city of Guangzhou (historically known as Canton) and its surrounding area in southeastern China.
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China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a unitary one-party sovereign state in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around /1e9 round 3 billion.
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Chinese martial arts
Chinese martial arts, often named under the umbrella terms kung fu and wushu, are the several hundred fighting styles that have developed over the centuries in China.
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Chinese swords and polearms
The Chinese classify all swords into two types, jian (劍) and dao (刀).
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Chronology of bladed weapons
The different types of bladed weapons (swords, dress-swords, sabers, rapiers, foils, machetes, daggers, knives, arrowheads, etc..) have been of great importance throughout history.
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Cinquedea
The cinquedea is a civilian short sword (or long dagger).
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Claymore
A claymore (from mòr, "great sword") is either the Scottish variant of the late medieval two-handed sword or the Scottish variant of the basket-hilted sword.
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Curator
A curator (from cura, meaning "to take care") is a manager or overseer.
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Cutlass
A cutlass is a short, broad sabre or slashing sword, with a straight or slightly curved blade sharpened on the cutting edge, and a hilt often featuring a solid cupped or basket-shaped guard.
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Dirk
A dirk is a long thrusting dagger.
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Domenico Angelo
Domenico Angelo (1717 Leghorn, Italy–1802), was an Italian sword and fencing master, also known as Angelo Domenico Malevolti Tremamondo.
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Doppelsöldner
("double-pay men", from German doppel meaning double, sold meaning pay) were Landsknechte in 16th-century Germany who volunteered to fight in the front line, taking on extra risk, in exchange for double payment.
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Early New High German
Early New High German (ENHG) is a term for the period in the history of the German language, generally defined, following Wilhelm Scherer, as the period 1350 to 1650.
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Elizabethan era
The Elizabethan era is the epoch in the Tudor period of the history of England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558–1603).
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Estoc
French estoc or English tuck is a type of sword in use from the 14th to 17th centuries.
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Europe
Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.
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Falchion
A falchion (Old French: fauchon; Latin: falx, "sickle") is a one-handed, single-edged sword of European origin, whose design is reminiscent of the Chinese dadao, and modern machete.
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Fascine knife
The fascine knife was a side arm / tool issued to 17th to 19th century light infantry and artillery.
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Fighting game
A fighting game is a video game genre based around interpersonal combat between a limited amount of characters, in which they fight until they defeat their opponents or the timer expires.
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Flame-bladed sword
A flame-bladed sword or wave-bladed sword has a characteristically style of blade.
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Franc-archer
The francs-archers ("free archers") militia were the first attempt at the formation of regular infantry in France.
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France
France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.
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George Silver
George Silver (ca. 1550s–1620s) was a gentleman of England during the late 16th and early 17th centuries, who is known for his writings on swordplay.
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Germany
Germany (Deutschland), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland), is a sovereign state in central-western Europe.
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Gladius
(Note: the sword above is actually not a Pompeii Gladius but, instead, a Fulham Gladius) Gladius was one Latin word for sword, and is used to represent the primary sword of Ancient Roman foot soldiers.
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Google Books
Google Books (previously known as Google Book Search and Google Print and by its codename Project Ocean) is a service from Google Inc. that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition (OCR), and stored in its digital database.
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Gun (staff)
The Chinese word gun (literally, "rod", "stick") refers to a long Chinese staff weapon used in Chinese martial arts.
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Henry VIII of England
Henry VIII (28 June 1491 – 28 January 1547) was King of England from 1509 until his death.
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Hunting sword
A hunting sword is a type of single-handed short sword that dates to the 12th Century but was used during hunting parties among Europeans from the 17th to the 19th centuries.
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Iron
Iron is a chemical element with symbol Fe (from ferrum) and atomic number 26.
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Iron Age sword
Swords made of iron (as opposed to bronze) appear from the Early Iron Age (c. 12th century BC), but do not become widespread before the 8th century BC.
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Italian language
Italian (or lingua italiana) is a Romance language.
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Japanese sword
A is one of several types of traditionally made swords from Japan.
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Jian
The jian (Cantonese: Gim) is a double-edged straight sword used during the last 2,500 years in China.
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Joseph Swetnam
Joseph Swetnam (died 1621) was an English pamphleteer and fencing master.
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Kilij
A kilij (from Turkish kılıç, literally "sword") is a type of one-handed, single edged and moderately curved saber used by the Turarian Empire, Uyghur Khaganate, Seljuk Empire, Timurid Empire, Mamluk Empire, Ottoman Empire, and the later Turkic Khanates of Central Asia and Eurasian steppes.
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Knightly sword
The sword typical of the European High Middle Ages (sometimes academically categorized as knightly sword, knightly arming sword, or arming sword) was a straight, double-edged weapon with a single-handed cruciform hilt and a blade length of about.
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Koncerz
Koncerz A koncerz is a type of sword used by Polish-Lithuanian hussars in the renaissance period.
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Landsknecht
The German Landsknechts, sometimes also rendered as (singular), were colourful mercenary soldiers with a formidable reputation, who became an important military force through late 15th- and 16th-century Europe.
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Late Middle Ages
The Late Middle Ages or Late Medieval Period was the period of European history lasting from 1250 to 1500 AD.
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Longsword
A longsword (also spelled as long sword or long-sword) is a type of European sword characterized as having a cruciform hilt with a grip for two-handed use (around), a straight double-edged blade of around, and weighing approximately.
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Martial arts manual
Martial arts manuals are instructions, with or without illustrations, specifically designed to be learnt from a book.
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Messer (weapon)
A messer (German for "knife") is a single-edged sword with a knife-like hilt construction.
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Middle Ages
In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages (or Medieval Period) lasted from the 5th to the 15th century.
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Middle French
Middle French (le moyen français) is a historical division of the French language that covers the period from the 14th to the early 17th centuries.
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Model 1832 foot artillery sword
The Model 1832 foot artillery sword was a short-sword with a straight, double-edged blade and brass-mounted leather scabbard.
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Modern history
Modern history, the modern period or the modern era, is the linear, global, historiographical approach to the time frame after post-classical history.
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Oakeshott typology
The Oakeshott typology was created by historian and illustrator Ewart Oakeshott as a way to define and catalogue the medieval sword based on physical form.
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Philippe de Commines
Philippe de Commines (or de Commynes or "Philippe de Comines"; Latin: Philippus Cominaeus; 1447 – 18 October 1511) was a writer and diplomat in the courts of Burgundy and France.
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Pole weapon
A pole weapon or pole arm is a close combat weapon in which the main fighting part of the weapon is fitted to the end of a long shaft, typically of wood, thereby extending the user's effective range.
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Popular culture
Popular culture (also called pop culture) is generally recognized as a set of the practices, beliefs, and objects that are dominant or ubiquitous in a society at a given point in time.
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Qiang (spear)
Qiang is the Chinese term for spear.
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Rapier
Rapier or espada ropera, is a loose term for a type of slender, sharply pointed sword.
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Renaissance
The Renaissance is a period in European history, covering the span between the 14th and 17th centuries.
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Retronym
A retronym is a newer name for an existing thing that differentiates the original form or version from a more recent one.
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Role-playing game
A role-playing game (sometimes spelled roleplaying game and abbreviated to RPG) is a game in which players assume the roles of characters in a fictional setting.
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Sabre
The sabre (British English) or saber (American English) is a type of backsword with a curved blade associated with the light cavalry of the early modern and Napoleonic periods.
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Samurai
were the military nobility and officer caste of medieval and early-modern Japan.
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Scimitar
A scimitar is a backsword or sabre with a curved blade, originating in the Middle East.
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Seax
Seax (also sax, sæx, sex; invariant in plural, latinized sachsum) is an Old English word for "knife".
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Shamshir
Shamshir (Persian: شمشیر) has an unknown origin considering the evidence found in the Arabian and Central Asian region.
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Small sword
The small sword or smallsword (also court sword, Gaelic: claidheamh beag or claybeg, French: épée de cour or dress sword) is a light one-handed sword designed for thrusting which evolved out of the longer and heavier rapier of the late Renaissance.
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Spada da lato
The spada da lato or side-sword is the Italian term for the type of sword popular during the late 16th century, corresponding to the Spanish espada ropera.
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Spartan army
The Spartan army stood at the center of the Spartan state, whose citizens trained in the disciplines and honor of a warrior society.
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Spear
A spear is a pole weapon consisting of a shaft, usually of wood, with a pointed head.
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Spring and Autumn period
The Spring and Autumn period was a period in Chinese history from approximately 771 to 476 BC (or according to some authorities until 403 BC) which corresponds roughly to the first half of the Eastern Zhou Period.
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Steel
Steel is an alloy of iron and carbon and other elements.
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Stratioti
The Stratioti or stradioti (stradioti, stradiotti, Στρατιώτες/stratiotes, Stratiotët) were mercenary units from the Balkans recruited mainly by states of southern and central Europe from the 15th century until the middle of the 18th century.
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Styles of Chinese martial arts
There are hundreds of different styles of Chinese martial arts, each with their own sets of techniques and ideas.
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Sword
A sword is a bladed weapon intended for slashing or thrusting that is longer than a knife or dagger.
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Sword and sorcery
Sword and sorcery (S&S) is a subgenre of fantasy characterized by sword-wielding heroes engaged in exciting and violent adventures.
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Sword of Goujian
The Sword of Goujian (Traditional Chinese: 越王勾踐劍, Simplified Chinese: 越王勾践剑) is an archaeological artifact of the Spring and Autumn period (771 to 403BC) found in 1965 in Hubei, China.
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Swordstaff
A swordstaff (Svärdstav) is a Scandinavian polearm, used in the medieval ages.
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Types of swords
This is a list of types of swords.
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Walter Scott
Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet (15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832) was a Scottish historical novelist, playwright, poet and historian.
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Xiphos
The xiphos (ξίφος) is a double-edged, one-handed Iron Age straight shortsword used by the ancient Greeks.
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Zweihänder
The Zweihänder (German "two hander") also Doppelhänder ("double-hander") or Beidhänder ("both-hander") is a large two-handed sword primarily in use during the early decades of the 16th century.
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1796 Heavy Cavalry Sword
The pattern 1796 Heavy Cavalry Sword was the sword used by the British heavy cavalry (Lifeguards, Royal Horse Guards, Dragoon Guards and Dragoons), and King's German Legion Dragoons, through most of the period of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classification_of_swords
