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I think Polaks should at least say TY to Serbs because they got Winged Hussar Xin for free :D

WolfChases··1 votes·1,512 views

Was just reading something about medieval eastern cavalry for my history exam and realized that both Hungarian and Polish Hussars were descendants of the Serbian Gusars who were primarily called Rac (Hungarian exonym for Serbs because moderns history says that Serbs are probably descendants of the mixture of Thrakians and Slavs cuz their medieval land was called RAS/RASCIA - THRASCIA and Serbs were called RASCIANS even tho that's not completely confirmed because many believe Serbs are a 100% south Slavic tribe even tho Serbian main Haplogroup is I2a 46% which is common for Thrakians while R1a around 20% in Serbia is common for Slavs). Initially the first units of Polish hussars in the Kingdom of Poland were formed in 1500, its influences coming from Serbian mercenaries. A small number of Serbian mercenaries were recruited and became Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth citizens.

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J Eevo1 votes

Yes the origin of hussars is from Serbian mercenaries, that is the basic idea - serbian mercenaries were a light cavalry unit with little to no armor, sporting a basic spear and a turkish style wooden shield. Hussars as they are known are a heavy cavalry unit known mostly for their winged armor, specially trained hussar horses and using a lance often with a banner.

So yeah while the origin might've been serbian the refined idea is a polish-lithuanian concept.

And as for the xin skin... Polish community is actually known to play Xin often, which fits in with the hussar skin quite nicely despite lacking a horse.

WolfChases1 votes

Yes, exactly but I think that wings also comes from Serbian Gusars because they also had feathers on their hats, 1 long feather called Celenka. And I would not say that rounded wooden shield comes from Turkey because literally everyone had rounded wooden shields for light armored units. For example Serbian Peasants had wooden shields while Serbian medieval Cavalry was known as heavy armored knights with long swords and long spears, even horses were armored with spikes on their heads so they were used as a modern day tanks lol :D A lot of Serbian medieval war helmets had bull horns on them.

I know that Polish winged hussars were a different than original Serbian Gusars/Husars because their armor was the mix of several cultures tho, but the whole idea and the name was primarily Serbian.

WolfChases1 votes

Why damn down votes? O.O It's history wtf not a fairytale.

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