{"id":463,"date":"2009-03-25T15:37:15","date_gmt":"2009-03-25T14:37:15","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2021-06-29T10:21:03","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T08:21:03","slug":"balearicslingers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.masmallorca.es\/en\/culture\/balearicslingers.html","title":{"rendered":"Balearic Slingers and the sling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright size-full wp-image-448\" style=\"margin-right: 20px; margin-left: 20px; float: right;\" title=\"Balearic Slingers. Sling of Mallorca.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.masmallorca.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/honderos_balearicos_palma.jpg\" alt=\"Balearic Slingers. Sling of Mallorca.\" width=\"150\" height=\"84\">The <strong>slingshot<\/strong> has played a significant role in the history of the Balearic Islands. It would be impossible to delve into the history of the Balearic Islands without making reference to the Balearic slingers, for the very word, \u201cBalearic\u201d, means, literally, \u201cMaster of Throwing\u201d. The islands\u2019 slingers were introduced to the world of slinging at birth.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">\n<p align=\"justify\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-453\" style=\"margin-right: 20px; margin-left: 0px; float: left;\" title=\"Balearic Slingers. Sling of Mallorca.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.masmallorca.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/honderos_balearicos_foner.jpg\" alt=\"Balearic Slingers. Sling of Mallorca.\" width=\"194\" height=\"248\"><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-439 size-full\" title=\"Balearic Slingers. Sling of Mallorca.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.masmallorca.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/honderos_balearicos_fona.jpg\" alt=\"Balearic Slingers. Sling of Mallorca.\" width=\"123\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.masmallorca.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/honderos_balearicos_fona.jpg 123w, https:\/\/www.masmallorca.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/honderos_balearicos_fona-82x300.jpg 82w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 123px) 100vw, 123px\" \/>Their great skill was highly praised and admired by the great historians of the day, that is, by both the Greeks and the Romans. Its huge value in combat, their spectacular skill, expertise and efficiency when operating the slingshots made them famous throughout the Mediterranean.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">\n<p align=\"justify\">\n<p align=\"justify\">\n<p align=\"justify\">The Romans made repeated requests their services within their own light infantry, with Julius Caesar in fact employing <strong>Balearic slingers<\/strong> as part of his troops during the Gallic War. It is believed that the first peoples settled on the islands in around the fourth millennium BC.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">\n<p align=\"justify\">\n<p align=\"justify\">\n<p align=\"justify\">\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright size-full wp-image-458\" style=\"margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 20px; float: right;\" title=\"Balearic Slingers. Sling of Mallorca.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.masmallorca.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/honderos_balearicos_lluita.jpg\" alt=\"Balearic Slingers. Sling of Mallorca.\" width=\"120\" height=\"155\">The earliest human remains found on Mallorca date to around 3500 BC, the Neolithic Age. An example of these first settlers can be seem in \u201cThe Man from Moleta\u201d, whose remains were found near Valldemossa Port.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><a title=\"Buy vegetable fiber slings and esparto.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mallorcashop.net\/en\/169-sling-honda-fona-schleuder-mallorca.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Buy vegetable fiber slings and esparto<\/a><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The slingshot has played a significant role in the history of the Balearic Islands. It would be impossible to delve into the history of the Balearic Islands without making reference to the Balearic slingers, for the very word, \u201cBalearic\u201d, means, literally, \u201cMaster of Throwing\u201d. The islands\u2019 slingers were introduced to the world of slinging at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":448,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Balearic Slingers and the sling | +Mallorca: The Magazine of Mallorca<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The sling has been very relevant in the history of the Balearic Islands. Balearic slingers. Master of Throwing. Mallorcan slings. 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