Medieval swords and sabres are the straight and curved blades carried by knights, men-at-arms, samurai and horsemen between the fall of Rome and the age of gunpowder armies. A weapon belongs here when the infobox of its cited article names it a sword, two-handed sword or sabre and the weapon is placed in the medieval period. It excludes daggers and polearms, which sit in their own groups. Weapons in this group are placed by what their own cited article states, so a visitor browsing medieval swords and sabres sees only systems whose sources name that role, and can compare them across eras, makers and the forces that used them.
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Wikipedia: Wallace Sword
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two-handed sword
Wikipedia: Katana
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Sword
Wikipedia: Tachi
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Sword
Wikipedia: Nodachi
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Sword
Wikipedia: Tantō
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Japanese sword
Wikipedia: Uchigatana
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Sword
Wikipedia: Longsword
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Sword (two-handed, double-edged)
Wikipedia: Claymore Sword
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Two-handed sword
Has Member: Claymore Sword, Lead: the Scottish variant of the late medieval two-handed sword
the Scottish variant of the late medieval two-handed sword
View the Source Wikipedia: Ōdachi
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Sword
Wikipedia: Shotel
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Sword
Wikipedia: Urumi
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Sword
Wikipedia: Zhanmadao
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Infantry anti-cavalry saber
Wikipedia: Falchion
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Sword
Wikipedia: Kodachi
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Small sword
Wikipedia: Scimitar
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A scimitar ( or ) is a single-edged sword with a convex curved blade of about 75 to 90 cm (30 to 36 inches) associated with Middle Eastern, South Asian, and North African cultures.
Wikipedia: Estoc
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The French estoc is a type of sword, also called a tuck in English, in use from the 14th to the 17th century.
Wikipedia: Takoba
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Takoba (also takuba or takouba) is a sword that is used across the western Sahel and among ethnic groups such as the Tuareg, the Hausa, and the Fulani.
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Takoba (also takuba or takouba) is a sword that is used across the western Sahel and among ethnic groups such as the Tuareg, the Hausa, and the Fulani.
View the Source Wikipedia: Ngulu (weapon)
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A Ngulu is an execution sword used by the Bantu peoples (including the Ngombe, Doko, Ngala, etc.) of the Congo Basin.
Wikipedia: Nagamaki
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The nagamaki (長巻; "long wrapping") is a type of traditionally made Japanese sword (nihontō) with an extra long handle, used by the samurai class of feudal Japan.
Wikipedia: Japanese sword
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A Japanese sword (Japanese: 日本刀, Hepburn: nihontō) is one of several types of traditionally made swords from Japan.
Wikipedia: Chokuto
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The chokutō (直刀, 'straight sword') is a straight, single-edged Japanese sword that was mainly produced prior to the 9th century.
Wikipedia: Flamberge
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A flamberge (also floberge, froberge, and other variations) is a medieval sword that is swung by a number of fictional heroes of chansons de geste and romances, and the word became a generic name for a large sword.
Wikipedia: Messer (sword)
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A messer (German for "knife") is a single-edged sword of the 15th and 16th century, characterised by knife-like hilt construction methods.
Wikipedia: Changdao
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The changdao (traditional Chinese: 長刀; simplified Chinese: 长刀; pinyin: chángdāo; lit. 'long sword') was a two-handed, single-edged Chinese sword.
Wikipedia: Kilij
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A kilij (from Turkish kılıç, literally "sword") is a type of one-handed, single-edged and curved scimitar used by the Seljuk Empire, Timurid Empire, Mamluk Empire, Ottoman Empire, and other Turkic khanates of Eurasian steppes and Turkestan.
Wikipedia: Dha (sword)
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Dha (Burmese: ဓား; also spelled dah) is a Burmese word meaning "knife" or "sword" which conventionally refers to a wide variety of bladed weapons used across Southeast Asia, especially present-day Myanmar (Burma), Thailand, Yunnan, Laos, Cambodia, and Northeast India.
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