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9th May 2008, 01:14 PM
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This form of African status sword is based on 16th century Portuguese swords and stems from Portuguese influence in the region in the 16th and 17th century. I have read somewhere that the Moroccan nimcha guard was based on early Italian swords of the 14th/15th century.
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