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The Jineta Sword is a type of Nasrid sword that was introduced to the Iberian Peninsula in Muslim times by the Zenatas. It was a straight-cut, double-edged sword with a channel up to the middle, with a bony handle and a round pommel, with a single hand, and whose rounded edges fell towards the blade, leaving a minimum space between them.
The Jineta sword had two very well differentiated variants: the one for weapons, whose specimens are not found in museums, but are referred to in documents of the time, and the one for Parada u Officialía.
Of the latter are the specimens that we can find in the respective museums, such as the Jineta Sword of Boabdil the Chico or the famous and Muslim Tizona of El Cid, and they are the ones that have served to classify these swords as luxuriously forged weapons and adorned with the best materials of the time.
The Jineta Sword was therefore an innovative war weapon of the Muslim cavalry, later adopted by the Christian kingdoms, which led to the development of the Jineta swords in Al-Andalus, especially in Granada, more in line with the type of fighting that revolutionized the wars of conquest and reconquest of the peninsula.
