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alcata was type of a sword that was in use in the pre-Roman Hispania that encompassed today’s Iberian Peninsula including Spain and Portugal.
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The most common Celtic swords were the long and short swords. The swords had leaf-shaped blades and featured hilts that were made of either copper, wood, bone or horn.
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he Kopis was a single-handed sword that featured a blade that was forward-curving. The average length of the sword was 3 feet.
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Bronze Age swords appeared from around the 17th century BC, in the Black Sea region and the Aegean, as a further development of the dagger.
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Dao are single-edged Chinese swords, primarily used for slashing and chopping. The most common form is also known as the Chinese sabre
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The jian is a double-edged straight sword used during the last 2,500 years in China. The first Chinese sources that mention the jian
