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TABLE OF CONTENT 1. Introduction..................................................................... 3 2. Hunting in our region from the outset.............................. 4 3. History of falconry (cca 4,500 years) ............................ 7 - Nimrod.................................................................................. 8 - Hittites and “Bogazkab” in Asia Minor (cca 3,300 years) ..............................................................10 - The Assyrians and “Khorsabad” in Southwest Asia (722 – 681 B.C.)...............................................................10 - Siberia – Asia .................................................................... 11 - China - Japan – Korea (2698 B.C. – 1868 A.D.) ................................................. 11 - India (400 B.C.-500 A.D.) ................................................ 14 - Orient – Persia – Palestine - Arabic cultures (500 B.C. – 800 A.D.)...................................................... 15 - Asian nomads – Huns – Avars (cca 2500 B.C. – 796 A.D.) ............................................ 19 - Europe and the present-day territory of Bohemia (cca 1000 B.C. – 643 A.D.) ............................................23 - Proto-slavs ...........................................................................24 - Falconry and clergy (506 – 1464) .................................25 - St. Bavo ...............................................................................26 - Emperor Charles the Great and the Capitularies (cca 500 – 822)....................................26 - Great Moravia (cca 830 – 925) ....................................27 - Rise of the Ugrian state (714 – 1000) ............................29 - Medieval Hungary (1000 – 1342)................................. 31 - Medieval Europe (980 – 1223) ......................................35 - Genghis Khan (1162 – 1227) .........................................37 - Frederick II of Hohenstaufen – the “Falcon Emperor” (1194 – 1250) ..................................................38 - The upswing of falconry in Europe (1213 – 1438) ...................................................................43 - Batu Khan and Kublai Khan (1235 – 1294) ..................48 - Falconry on the present-day territory of Slovakia (1156 – 1293) ................................................................... 51 - Europe – Asia (1260 – 1584) .........................................59 - The Saker Falcon of Nitra (1504 – 1560) .....................63 T. Krivjanský, author
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- Falconry on the present-day territory of Bohemia and Slovakia (1539 – 1753) in the late Middle Ages..........64 - Saint Trifon and the tsar of falconers (1530 – 1676) ....69 - Charles d’Arcusia: La Fauconniere - Francúzsko (1610 – 1715) ................................................................... 76 - Falconry in Western Europe (1647 –1700) ...................79 - Falconry in the dramatic arts, diplomacy and business in the 17th and 18th centuries ...................82 - The glory of falconry is fading away (1705 – 1936) ..................................................................85 - The revival of falconry in Austria-Hungary (1903 –1938) ...................................................................93 - The world’s most famous falconers ..................................96 The Renaissance of falconry....................................... 99 - The Renaissance of falconry in the USA ....................... 102 - The Renaissance of falconry in Czechoslovakia.......... 109 - The Renaissance of falconry in Slovakia .......................127 - The Renaissance of falconry in the countries of the former Soviet Union ..............................................161 The Present of falconry ............................................. 164 - International hunting and falconry organisations .........164 - IAF and the festivals of falconry until 2009 and Slovakia 2010 ..........................................................166 - Strasbourg 2011 ..............................................................213 - The festival in the UAE 2011 ...........................................215 - IAF in the Netherlands 2013 ......................................... 290 - The Qatar festival, 2014 ................................................ 296 Raptors and owls usable in falconry ...........................299 - Looking at raptors ........................................................... 304 - Classification of raptors based on their training .......... 305 Falconry traditions and the National Bank of Slovakia .................................................................. 307 About the author......................................................... 312 Final acknowledgements....................................................314 Bibliography........................................................................314 Authors of photographs and illustrations ..........................316 Table of content .................................................................. 317
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