Turkish Ottoman Empire Mameluke Sword

Early Turkish Ottoman Mameluke Sword measuring 36 inches overall with a 30 1/2 inch curved and very stout kilij blade. Excellent. A Mameluke sword /'mæm?lu?k/ is a cross-hilted, curved, scimitar-like sword historically derived from sabres used by Mamluk warriors of Ottoman Egypt after whom the sword is named. Egypt was, at least nominally, part of the Ottoman Empire and the sword most commonly used in Egypt was the same as used elsewhere in the empire, the kilij. The curved sabre was originally of Central Asian Turkic in origin[1][2] from where the style migrated to the Middle East, Europe, India and North Africa.[3] In Anatolia and the Balkans the sabre developed characteristics that eventually produced the Ottoman kilij. It was adopted in the 19th century by several Western militaries, ...