18th May 2020, 07:05 AM
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Location: Ann Arbor, MI
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Originally Posted by TVV
If we adopt Yasar's attribution logic, then Sami knives and kindjals made in Tbilisi in the 19th century are both Russian (or Romanov, if you wish), as those were all made in the Russian Empire. It is a logic that ignores the multi-ethnic nature and regional material culture variations of large empires.
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Fully agree.
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