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Falconry - a stray bit of history

To: "'Con Boekel'" <>, <>
Subject: Falconry - a stray bit of history
From: "Suzanne EDGAR" <>
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2015 16:29:39 +1100
Re falconry: members my like to read a new bk, H is for Hawk, by Helen
Macdonald, Jonathan Cape Lond 2014; won the Samuel Johnson prize for non
fiction UK 2014
Sz

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From: Con Boekel  
Sent: Wednesday, 4 March 2015 5:15 PM
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Subject: Falconry - a stray bit of history



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:

'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);...'

Malcolm is usually very, very accurate but I am not sure that he meant
'bred'.

That said, I thought to myself how times have changed.

Perhaps we could do with a falconry-led improvement in international
relations.

Con




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