european blade?

[celtan]

Interesting.

Rumanians were christians, but these have a definite muslim/turkish appearance...

The Meca and Basra Straits lie on opposite sides of Saudi Arabia, Rumania lies in South Eastern Europe. Perhaps the Rumes mentioned and portrayed were arabic descendants of Romanians?

BTW, his sword resembles the german "malchus" falchion from another EA thread.

M

Originally Posted by fernando

In strict terms ...

RUMES WERE INHABITANTS OF ANCIENT TRACIA, LATER ROMANIA, AND THEIR NATURALS ROMANIS, TO WHOM THE TURKS CALLED RUMELI AND WE CALLED RUMES (Diogo do Couto 1542-1616).

In this picture, painted by an anonimous Portuguese traveller in the XVI century, Rumes as depicted inhabited the straight of Meca and Baçorá.
According to Gaspar Correia (1495-1561), they used various weapons, namely wide and long swords, and they were also great shooters.

Fernando

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