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Szabla (Polish pronunciation:; plural: szable) is the Polish word for sabre. [1] The sabre was in widespread use in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth during the Early Modern period, especially by light cavalry in the 17th century. The sabre became widespread in Europe following the Thirty Years' War and was also adopted by infantry.
The original type of sabre, or Polish szabla, was used as a cavalry weapon, possibly inspired by Hungarian or wider Turco-Mongol warfare. The karabela was a type of szabla popular in the late 17th century, worn by the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth nobility class, the szlachta.
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Karabela sabre, 17th century Karabela of King Sigismund III of Poland. A karabela was a type of Polish sabre popular in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.Polish fencer Wojciech Zabłocki defines a karabela as a decorated sabre with the handle stylized as the head of a bird and an open crossguard.
Eventually in 1975 a commission set up by the Polish Army Museum designed a new szabla wz. 1976 - a parade sabre for use by the Polish Land Forces (wz. 1976 WP) and the Polish Navy (wz. 1976 MW). Both variants were based on the original pre-war wz. 34, but also included design elements from earlier sabres, notably from the 17th century hussar ...
Alongside the scythes, the song mentioned other types of weaponry, traditionally used by the Polish szlachta, or nobility: the sabre, known in Polish as szabla, and the backsword. Basia (a feminine diminutive of Barbara) and her father are fictional characters. They are used to represent the women and elderly men who waited for the Polish ...
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