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Originally Posted by Victrix
. The Austrians ruled the Veneto region and were probably not keen to promote arms industries in that potential hotbed. .
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Back in the 1970s there was an exhibition of traditional Balkan arms and I recall the catalog mentioning that Habsburg-administered areas like Bosnia suffered restrictions on the local manufacture of weapons, even the wearing of yataghans and other blades, in the 19th cent.