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]

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]

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.