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Originally Posted by Turkoman.khan

Jenö Zichy in his book "Kaukázusi és Középázsiai utazásai", published at the end of the 19th century, wrote that such swords are found in Transcaucasia among Armenians and Kurds.

A very interesting find, I was not aware of this illustration or the book. The curvature of the blades of these weapons certainly lines up with those of these Kurdish-Armenian yatagans, and even the decoration on the blades is quite similar as well.