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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;seth77, post: 4957170, member: 56653&quot;]By as early as 1415 Cyprus started paying tribute to the Mamluks, including &quot;booty&quot; so that the Egyptian warlords could brag about victories in wars that never actually happened by parading and/or privately bragging with European parafernalia, especially armory.</p><p><br /></p><p>Part of the booty sent around 1432 to the Mamluk sultan to acknowledge his suzerainty was this extraordinary Milanese sword, at the beginning of Renaissance weaponry.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1191705[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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