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Old 9th December 2015, 09:47 AM   #8
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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???
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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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