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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 244611, member: 2844"]Well, the Turkish invaded Morocco a couple of times, they could have taken Moroccan koummya with them<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" />, but the koummya is still very much a Berber dagger.</p><p>I find that when sellers don't know what a non-Western dagger is, they tend to call it either Turkish or Persian. Poor Berbers, their culture has been under pressure for centuries, and now this<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/frown.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":(" unselectable="on" />.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 244611, member: 2844"]Well, the Turkish invaded Morocco a couple of times, they could have taken Moroccan koummya with them;), but the koummya is still very much a Berber dagger. I find that when sellers don't know what a non-Western dagger is, they tend to call it either Turkish or Persian. Poor Berbers, their culture has been under pressure for centuries, and now this:(.[/QUOTE]
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