Kontos (weapon)
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title:
Kontos (weapon)
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The kontos was the Greek name for a type of long wooden cavalry lance used by the Iranians, especially Achaemenid successors' cavalry, most notably cataphracts (Grivpanvar). It was also used by the Germanic warriors of the south as a pike. A shift in the terminology used to describe Sarmatian weapons indicates the kontos was developed in the early to mid-1st century AD from shorter spear-type weapons, though such a description may have existed before the Battle of Carrhae, in which Parthian cata
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Ancient pole weapon
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kontos_(weapon)
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2024-03-15T14:49:49Z
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