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Old 25th February 2024, 08:05 PM   #1
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Default Help with translation of the Ottoman yatagan, 18th century.

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Old 25th February 2024, 08:08 PM   #2
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Old 27th February 2024, 07:14 PM   #3
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Can only help you with the date "1218" => 1803
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With the help of a friend, the text was read .Year 1218 (Circa 1803). Made by Hajji (pilgrim) Nouh, owner Halil Ağa.
Ağa is a military rank which has no equvelance in today's miltary and it is between a captain and a major.
Ağa usullay cammanded 1000 jennissaries.
The rest are the names of the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus
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Old 19th March 2024, 04:27 PM   #5
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Additional:

Aga or Agha was also a honorific title or name given to respected men, who were not to be addressed with Beg / Bey or Effendi for one reason or another in the Ottoman Empire.
So not always a reference to a military rank or position of the owner
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Old 19th March 2024, 10:20 PM   #6
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Aga or Agha was also a honorific title or name given to respected men, who were not to be addressed with Beg / Bey or Effendi for one reason or another in the Ottoman Empire.
So not always a reference to a military rank or position of the owner
Besides the inscription, there are many other reasons to believe that the yatagan belonged to a Janissar

In a literal translation, it can also be translated as older brother
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