Most Balkan yataghans come from the Ottoman
-controlled areas: Bosnia, Serbia, Greece and Bulgaria.
Indeen it is difficult to distinguish between them, with the exception of longish and round-eared Greek ones, Sarajevo production ( " radioactive sign") and Bulgarian karakulaks ( which were in fact not weapons as such but rather herder knives, although on occasion....
).
There are several good books:"Zbirka Yatagana" by Dora Boskovic ( Croatian Zagreb Museum collection) and , less so, " Weaponry of the past" by Nikola Daskalov and Vyara Kovacheva ( Bulgarian collections).
From Serbia/Bosnia yataghans moved to Croatia and even Italy, but rarely did they become popular there: the Great Divide between the Orthodox/Catholic schism transformed into the Ottoman/Western European one. And the twain never met
