![]() List of participants (Sorted by first year participation):Ģ012 - Austria, United States, Israel, Denmark, The Baltic States- union of Lithuania, Latvia, EstoniaĢ013 - Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Czech Republic & Slovakia, France, Japan, Luxembourg, New Zealand, Spain, United Kingdomįighters from Portugal also attended, and fought with the Luxembourg team.Ībout 25.000 attend the event annually. 22 teams participated in the "Battle of the Nations 2013" This was the first time the event was held outside the Eastern Bloc. In 2013 the Battle of the Nations was held in Aigues-Mortes in southern France. ![]() The 12 countries are participated at "Battle of the Nations 2012". The US team is a cross-group association of historic martial arts organizations. US combatants entered a team for the first time in 2012, with a number of their members coming from the Society for Creative Anachronism. Together with Scallagrims group from Toronto they founded the National Medieval Martial Arts League in Canada. They also held the first friendly tournament under the HMB rules in St-Eustache in February 2012 where participants from Ontario and USA took part. Their captain put a team together of 9 fighters and 3 support staff who traveled from Montreal Quebec to take part in the tournament. Team Quebec (also known at Ost du Quebec ) was the first non European team to enter the tournament in Ukraine in 2011. Over 200 armoured men at arms take place in the competition, and in addition to melee/hand-to-hand weapons, archery is also featured. A number of different forms of combat take place, including some involving individuals, 5 a side or 21 on each side. The combatants depict armoured fighters from the 12th - 15th century. The first tournament was held at the Khotyn Fortress in Ukraine in 2010. ![]() The heraldry, however, reflects the modern competition teams, rather than necessarily an historically correct heraldic device that may have been worn by combatants in the medieval period. The emphasis is put on the combatants wearing historically accurate equipment and heraldry, and the use of appropriate weapons for the combat. The tradition for this combat/competition has largely come from Russia, where enthusiasts have held previous events where full contact "battles" of large numbers of armoured combatants, are held, often in historical sites. Before the unified rules were written, the countries had different HMB rules. The unified international rules, according to which battles are held, have been written specially for "Battle of the Nations”. National teams organize qualifying tournaments to find the best HMB fighters of a country. Qualifying tournaments are competitions, where battles are held in accordance with the unified international rules for the historical medieval battle. ![]() Any representative of any of the HMB clubs, as well as an individual fighter, provided he has gone through a selection process conventional for a country, can become a member of a national team. Under the rules of BN a national team has to consist of at least 8 and maximum of 50 fighters. Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information.įigures sourced from the Center for Strategic and International Studies and, unless otherwise noted.National teams of different countries compete at “Battle of the Nations”. South Africa produced six nuclear weapons in the 1980s, but dismantled them in the early 1990s. Japan, South Korea and Poland are generally considered de facto nuclear states due to their believed ability to wield nuclear weapons within 1 to 3 years. States marked 'TC' are widely considered technologically capable of wielding, operating or developing nuclear weapons, however are signatories of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and are not known to possess any at the current moment.
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