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Mounted archery in Tibet. Mounted archery is a form of archery that involves shooting arrows while on horseback. [1] A horse archer is a person who does mounted archery. [2] Archery has occasionally been used from the backs of other riding animals. In large open areas, mounted archery was a highly successful technique for hunting, for ...
The practice declined after the Crimean Khanate was absorbed by Russia; however mounted archers remained in the Ottoman order of battle until the post-1826 reforms to the Ottoman Army. The art of traditional archery remained in minority use for sport and for hunting in Turkey up until the 1920s, but the knowledge of constructing composite bows ...
Salburun (Kyrgyz : Салбуурун) is a traditional kind of hunt in Kyrgyzstan and Central Asia, involving falconry, archery and sometimes mounted archery, as well as hunting with Taigan. At the end of Salburun contests, the winners of the different disciplines receive an award; the main disciplines are: Hunting with eagles, Hunting with ...
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Russia SR-2 Veresk: 9×21mm Gyurza: 1999–present SR-2M Russia Vityaz-SN [5] closed bolt blowback operated Kalashnikov variant 9×19mm Parabellum: 1990s–present standard SMG for all branches of Russian military and police forces [6] Vityaz-SN Russia PP-2000: 9×19mm Parabellum: 2008–present standard SMG for all branches of police forces [6 ...
Mongol soldier on horseback, preparing a mounted archery shot. Several types of light cavalry were developed and used in medieval armies. Hobelar: Originally Irish, later popular in English and Scottish armies of the 14th and 15th centuries. Koursores: Byzantine light cavalry. The name derives from the Latin term cursor meaning 'runner'.
The rebellion ended with the 1654 Treaty of Pereyaslav in which Khmelnitsky's Cossacks, so as to destroy the Russian-Polish alliance against them, pledged their loyalty to the Russian Tsar, who guaranteed their protection, the recognition of their starshyna (officer-nobility) and their property and autonomy under his rule, freeing the Cossacks ...
A sovnya (Russian: совня) is a traditional polearm used in Russia. Similar to the glaive , the sovnya had a curved, single-edged blade mounted on the end of a long pole. This was a weapon used by late-medieval Muscovite cavalry and it retained use until the mid-17th century.