"Flags of the Volga Bulgars?" Topic
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| Glengarry5 | 06 Jun 2021 5:40 p.m. PST |
Does anyone know what the flags and banners of the Volga Bulgars may have looked like in the 12th to 13th centuries or thereabouts?
thanks |
| Perris0707 | 07 Jun 2021 3:51 p.m. PST |
I have no idea. I would just go with some standards based on other steppe tribes. Horsetail standards, banners with various animal totems might be possible as well. Wolves, Bears, Eagles, etc. |
| Perris0707 | 07 Jun 2021 3:51 p.m. PST |
Isn't there an Osprey Men at Arms on the Bulgars? Maybe they have some info in there. |
| Glengarry5 | 07 Jun 2021 5:09 p.m. PST |
I have the Osprey book, banners are referred too but not described. |
| Cuprum2 | 07 Jun 2021 5:33 p.m. PST |
There are some paintings by Tatar artists on the Internet, where the banners of the Volga Bulgars are depicted. But how these images are authentic and on what basis – is difficult to judge.
Adoption of Islam by the Bulgars. On the banners of the Bulgars, pre-Islamic (apparently generic) totems are depicted. |
| Glengarry5 | 07 Jun 2021 10:16 p.m. PST |
Who! Thanks for that Cuprum 2! I was beginning to lean towards something more Islamic than pagan. |
| Cuprum2 | 07 Jun 2021 10:23 p.m. PST |
I don't think these are pagan symbols. It is rather a generic emblem of nobility. And they may well be used in the Islamic period. |
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