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FW: [canberrabirds] Falconry - a stray bit of history

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Subject: FW: [canberrabirds] Falconry - a stray bit of history
From: John Harris <>
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2015 06:23:59 +0000
>Hi Con,
>As a person interested both in birds and religious history, this interests
>me.
>Do you mean that it is not likely that they could BREED falcons etc in
>captivity?
>Cheers
>John
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>On 4/03/2015 5:14 pm, "Con Boekel" <> wrote:
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>>While working my way through the 500 page long 'Kosovo - A Short
>>History' by Noel Malcolm, I came upon a section detailing the early
>>interactions between the Ottoman Empire, then newly in control, and the
>>local christians in and around Kosovo. Inter alia:
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>>'Other groups of privileged christians included...falconers who bred
>>birds for the Sultan and the local lords (there were fifteen falconer
>>households in villages near Prishtina in 1477 and twenty-four in
>>villages near Prizren);...'
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>>Malcolm is usually very, very accurate but I am not sure that he meant
>>'bred'.
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>>That said, I thought to myself how times have changed.
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>>Perhaps we could do with a falconry-led improvement in international
>>relations.
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>>Con
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