This Cup Guard Pirate Scimitar is replicated from the pirate sword the Muslim warrior Hayreddin Barbarossa carried during the 16th C. Barbarossa was born on the Greek island of Lesbos, which was under Turkish control by that time. He built his corsair reputation in the early years of the sixteenth century; with his brother Aruch, from his base in Algiers, he controlled the commercial trade in the Mediterranean Sea under the auspices of the Turkish Empire and he became a nightmare for the Spanish Empire and other Christian states of their time.
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