Yatagan Sword

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Short Sword (Yatagan) from the Court of Süleyman the Magnificent (reigned 1520–66) Workshop of Ahmed Tekelü possibly Iranian. This sword is one of the earliest known yatagans, distinctly Turkish weapons characterized by a double-curved blade and a hilt without a guard. Yatagans were commonplace in Turkey and the Balkans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and served as sidearms for the elite troops known as janissaries.