Paramerion

{{short description|Sword used in Byzantine Empire}}

File:Byzantine icon St-Mercurius 1295.jpg of Saint Mercurius armed with a paramerion, dated 1295, from Ohrid, North Macedonia]]

The paramerion (Medieval Greek: Παραμήριον) was a saber-like curved sword.The name paramerion means 'by the thigh', this may reflect that it was worn suspended by slings from a waist-belt, rather than the usual baldric employed by Byzantines for straight double-edged swords.Dawson, Timothy (2007) Byzantine Infantryman, Eastern Roman Empire c.900–1204, Osprey, Oxford, {{ISBN|978-1-84603-105-2}}, p. 25.