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					Originally Posted by Kubur
					
				 To support Marius point and the link with Persian blades, I think the Kurds are the link: from today Turkey to Syria up to Iran... | 
	
 I will also support this opinion and supplement it - at that time many Kurds lived in Armenia and Georgia, especially in Tiflis. 
I also read that the city of Mosul was famous for its wootz, until the Mongols captured it in the XIII century. Perhaps later the tradition was restored, but I do not know about it.