One of the oldest folding knife patterns still in production, the first true navajas originated in the Andalusian region of southern Spain.[1] In Spain, the term navaja is often used to generally describe all folding-blade knives.[2][3]
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^Cuyás, Arturo (ed.), Appletons' New Spanish-English and English-Spanish Dictionary, New York: D. Appleton & Co, (1912), p. 390
^Haraty, Eileen M. (ed.), Merriam-Webster's Spanish-English Dictionary, New York: Merriam-Webster, Inc., ISBN0-87779-165-1 (1998), pp. 190, 499