selahlik/silahlik weapons belts

[Kubur]

Please show us some Selahlik silahlik or bensilah weapons belt
mainly from the Balkans (Ottoman period)...

Best,
Kubur

[estcrh]

Here is one of the best examples I know of. There should be a lot of these around, most men who carried a weapons wore one of these, another mystery, were did they all go.

[estcrh]

A few more.

[estcrh]

A few more examples.

[eftihis]

here are some more...

[TVV]

There is not much more to add at this point, but here are some.

[Kubur]

Thanks guys, all these pictures are amazing.
Question where this kind of belt comes from?
Most of them in the 19th c. are from the Balkans, but I can see some from Ottoman Turkey and even Caucasus... Any idea when they appear and where???
Best,

[estcrh]

Originally Posted by Kubur

Thanks guys, all these pictures are amazing.
Question where this kind of belt comes from?
Most of them in the 19th c. are from the Balkans, but I can see some from Ottoman Turkey and even Caucasus... Any idea when they appear and where???
Best,

Here is a quote from "Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El Medinah and Meccah", Volume 1, Sir Richard Francis Burton, 1857.

[estcrh]

Here is a reference from an article titled "The Turks In Egypt" from the "Calcutta Review", Volumes 96-97, University of Calcutta, 1893. It mentions silahlik being used by the Mamluks during the Ottoman occupation of Egypt. I would assume this reference was around the 1700s if not earlier as the french invaded Egypt in 1798, ending both the Mamluk and Ottoman rule.

[estcrh]

I believe this one is was upside down, it looks to me that the museum which owns it has the weapons going the wrong way.

[blue lander]

Would these Greek ones qualify?

http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showthread.php?t=17195

[estcrh]

Originally Posted by blue lander

Would these Greek ones qualify?

http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showthread.php?t=17195

I would say they do, some nice examples.

[Sylektis]

Some of them in Greek museums.