Kukri
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The kukri or khukuri is a type of knife or short sword with a distinct recurve in its blade that originated in the Indian subcontinent. It serves multiple purposes as a melee weapon and also as a regu
Polished kukri no BG
Colonel Gambhir Singh Rayamajhi Kshetri, a Gorkhali Commander armed with a Khukuri in his left hand and Talwar on his right
Gurkhas at kit inspection showing kukri in France during World War I
Ghurkas in action in Tunisia, 16 March 1943
Kopis
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The term kopis in Ancient Greece could describe a heavy knife with a forward-curving blade, primarily used as a tool for cutting meat, for ritual slaughter and animal sacrifice, or refer to a single e
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…both as weapons and as tools. It might have derived from the ancient Indian saber called nistrimsa (निस्त्रिंश), itself possibly based on the Greek kopis brought by Alexander the Great's forces to India in the 4th century BC. Burton (1884) writes that the British Museum housed a large kukri-like falchion…
Greek hoplite (standing) fighting against a Persian archer. Each is using a kopis. Depiction in ancient kylix, 5th century BC, National Archaeological Museum of Athens.
Greek kopis, 5th–4th centuries BC, iron, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Greek kopis with sharply downcurved blade, 5th-4th centuries BC, iron, Metropolitan Museum of Art