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Traditional festive costume – Biga Pomak / Turkey – betrothed girl.

Posted by Jean-Marie Criel on February 12, 2016 at 2:41pm
A traditional festive costume from Pomak villages near Biga (Çanakkale prov.), mid-20th c. This is the way a betrothed girl (‘nişanlı kız’) would wear the costume. Characteristics: 1) the tip of the ‘arkalık kuşak’ (triangular waist cloth) is worn on the hip; 2) the hat & imitation hair (black cotton plaits, attached to back of the hat) are covered by the headscarf. (Kavak Costume Collection - Antwerpen/Belgium).
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Tags: Anatolia, Anatolia., Pomak, Turkey, costume, late-Ottoman, traditional
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  • Jean-Marie Criel February 12, 2016 at 3:48pm

    The 'Biga Pomaks’ are Bulgarian Muslims, who emigrated from southern Bulgaria to their actual settlements in the Biga district (Çanakkale province, NW Anatolia) in 1878 (and following years). 

    There is still a large Pomak minority living in Bulgaria nowadays (in the Rhodopes Mountains).

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