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Old 8th December 2015, 04:55 PM   #1
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Default selahlik/silahlik weapons belts

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

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Old 8th December 2015, 07:19 PM   #2
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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.
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Old 8th December 2015, 07:25 PM   #3
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A few more.
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A few more examples.
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Old 8th December 2015, 08:12 PM   #5
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here are some more...
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There is not much more to add at this point, but here are some.
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Old 9th December 2015, 05:37 AM   #7
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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???
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Old 9th December 2015, 10:47 AM   #8
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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???
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Here is a quote from "Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El Medinah and Meccah", Volume 1, Sir Richard Francis Burton, 1857.
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Old 9th December 2015, 11:18 AM   #9
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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.
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Old 9th December 2015, 03:24 PM   #10
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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.
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Old 9th December 2015, 03:39 PM   #11
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Would these Greek ones qualify?

http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showthread.php?t=17195
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Old 9th December 2015, 04:14 PM   #12
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I would say they do, some nice examples.
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Old 10th December 2015, 10:07 PM   #13
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Some of them in Greek museums.
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