Editing Classification of swords (section)

====Scimitar====
The [[scimitar]] (French {{lang|fr|cimeterre}}, Italian {{lang|it|scimitarra}}) is a type of saber that came to refer in general to any sabre used by the Turks or Ottomans ({{lang|tr|[[Kilij|kilic]]}}), Persians ({{lang|fa-Latn|[[shamshir]]}}) and more specifically the {{lang|grc-Latn|[[Stradioti]]}}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.shsu.edu/~his_ncp/Stradioti.html |title=Stradioti: Balkan Mercenaries In Fifteenth And Sixteenth Century Italy |publisher=Shsu.edu |access-date=2015-10-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924101628/http://www.shsu.edu/~his_ncp/Stradioti.html |archive-date=2015-09-24 |url-status=dead }}</ref> (Albanian and Greek mercenaries who fought in the French-Italian Wars and were employed throughout Western Europe).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://littre.reverso.net/dictionnaire-francais/definition/estradiot/29286 |title=estradiot : définition de estradiot, citations, exemples et usage pour estradiot dans le dictionnaire de français Littré adapté du grand dictionnaire de la langue française d'Emile Littré |publisher=Littre.reverso.net |access-date=2015-10-08}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/glossairearcheol01gayv#page/382/mode/2up |title=Glossaire archéologique du Moyen Age et de la Renaissance |publisher=Paris, Société bibliographique |access-date=2015-10-08}}</ref> The scimitar proper was the {{lang|grc-Latn|Stradioti}} saber,<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p9lA00v1LdUC&q=cimeterre+estradiots&pg=PA267 |title=Oeuvres complčtes de Bossuet |author=Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet |year=1863 |page=267 |via=[[Google Books]]|access-date=2015-10-08}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gMoOAQAAMAAJ&q=cimeterre+estradiots&pg=PT70 |title=Le costume historique: Cinq cents planches, trois cents en couleurs, or et ... |author=Auguste Racinet |year=1876 |via=[[Google Books]]|access-date=2015-10-08}}</ref> and the term was introduced into France by [[Philippe de Commines]] (1447 – 18 October 1511) as {{lang|fr|cimeterre}},<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CLFN_1R_jBgC&q=cimeterre+estradiots&pg=PA190 |title=Des princes français, rois de Sicile, rois de Naples |page=190 |via=[[Google Books]]|isbn=9782748377675 |access-date=2015-10-08|last1=Levasseur |first1=Michel |publisher=Société des Ecrivains }}</ref> Italy (especially the Venetian Republic who hired the {{lang|grc-Latn|stradioti}} as mercenaries) as {{lang|it|scimitarra}}, and England as ''cimeter'' or scimitar via the French and Italian terms.