Types of swords information

This is a list of types of swords. The term sword used here is a narrow definition. This is not a general List of premodern combat weapons and does not...

as "a rarity". Great swords or greatswords are related to the long swords of the Middle Ages.[dubious – discuss] The great sword was developed during...

A Japanese sword (Japanese: 日本刀, Hepburn: nihontō) is one of several types of traditionally made swords from Japan. Bronze swords were made as early as...

15th centuries), late forms of these swords continued to be used, but often as a sidearm, at that point called "arming swords" and contrasting with the...

17th to 16th centuries, types C ("horned" swords) and D ("cross" swords) from the 15th century, types E and F ("T-hilt" swords) from the 13th and 12th...

Wazamono List of mythological swords List of fictional swords List of types of swords Classification of swords This article includes a list of lists....

scimitar does not refer to one specific sword type, but an assortment of different Eastern curved swords inspired by types introduced to the Middle East by Central...

(39 in). These are the "type A" swords of the Aegean Bronze Age. One of the most important, and longest-lasting, types of swords of the European Bronze Age...

medieval sword based on physical form. It categorises the swords of the European Middle Ages (roughly 11th to 16th centuries) into 13 main types, labelled...

effectiveness of the arquebus and the use of pike squares as a powerful implement of battle. During this time, civilian swords evolved to side-swords, also known...

to stray finds in riverbeds. Swords of the 8th to 10th centuries are also termed "Carolingian swords", while swords of the late Viking Age and the beginning...

Kotō (old swords from around 900–1596) Shintō (new swords 1596–1780) Shinshintō (newer swords 1781–1876) Gendaitō (modern or contemporary swords 1876–present)...

still be used to other types of smaller swords, but antiquarian usage in the 19th century established the use of "bastard sword" as referring unambiguously...

type of weapon or by the martial arts school using them. List of melee weapons Bladed weapons Swords: see Types of swords Knives Daggers: see List of...

Latin, the word also came to mean "sword", regardless of the type used. Early ancient Roman swords were similar to those of the Greeks, called xiphe (pl.,...

swords 1596–1780) Shinshintō (new new swords 1781–1876) Gendaitō (modern or contemporary swords 1876–present) The predecessor of the Japanese sword has...

at the end of the performances, collected the swords to begin a resistance against the army. These swords were never returned. Female sword dancing was...

larger tachi sword was worn slung from a cord. The production of swords in Japan is divided into specific time periods: Jokotō (ancient swords, until around...

thrusting swords with poor cutting abilities as rapiers, and swords with both good thrusting and cutting abilities as cut-and-thrust swords. The term...

the same family of curved swords as the Persian shamshir, the Turkish kilij, Arabian saif and the Afghan pulwar, all such swords being originally derived...

Krefeld type swords are known from Francia, four from Alamannia, and another two from England. A native industry producing "Germanic swords" then emerges...

into "small or short tachi (sword)", is one of the traditionally made Japanese swords (nihontō) used by the samurai class of feudal Japan. Kodachi are from...

beginning in the 17th century. Classifications of swords Types of swords List of swords Basket-hilted swords Cutlass Dusack Falchion Golok Machete Messer...

refer to "long swords" that while a common medieval term or orthography for naginata, could also simply be referring to conventional swords; one source describes...

sub-types used to closely define the area and age, Z1 and Z2b (most common in south-eastern Europe), Z3 ("cat's head", typical for Venetian swords), Z4...

any of these categories. Edged and bladed weapons Knife Machete Switchblade Dagger (see List of daggers) Shuriken Kunai Tomahawk Sword (see Types of swords)...