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Late medieval Bulgarian clothing and weaponry on display at the Baba Vida fortress in Vidin

published on 7/4/24 6:50 AM

Photo: Personal archive of Teodora Vassileva

"Late Medieval Bulgarian Clothing and Armour" is the name of the new permanent exhibition at the Baba Vida Fortress in the town of Vidin on the Danube.

Visitors can see the clothing, armour and accoutrements of the late Middle Ages in the Bulgarian lands - from the end of the 12th century to the end of the 14th century. The clothes and the personal equipment of soldiers are presented on life-size mannequins, and the weapons are exact replicas, reports BNR Vidin.

"The interesting thing about this period is that the armour changed a lot, because at that time it was influenced by the Mongol invasions, the Crusades that went through the Balkan Peninsula and the Byzantine Empire, so it was borrowed from the West, the East and the Southeast. The way of waging war also changed," says Kalin Videnov, the curator of the fortress.

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