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Originally Posted by eftihis
Well the crescent and star means it belonged to amuslim, but was he a mainland Turk or a Balkan muslim?
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Hold your horses as it is a little premature since it doesn't have to be a Muslim one ...
Please allow me to explain: the Coat of Arms of the Kingdom of Slovens, Croats and Serbs, later changed to the Kingdom of Southern Slavs (Yugoslavia) has the Coat of Arms of Slavonia incorporated in it at the bottom....
which is a lying Cresent with a star. Also found on their coinage (denar Slavonia) since medieval times and is not Islam related at all.
It could very well be indeed be from Hercegowina but more proof needs to be present instead of assumptions...
But to be sure we need a better picture of the Cresent and especially the star to verfy if it is from the Balkans or if we need to look elswhere. .
I have got some books from 1860-1900 about the Balkans and Ottoman empire with similar pics but I need a good look and better pic of the bag in order to compare and determinate