Turban

English: A turban is a kind of headwear based on cloth winding; it is also known as a bulle, dastar, or pagri. Communities with prominent turban-wearing traditions can be found in South Asia, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, the Arabian Peninsula, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and parts of the Swahili coast of East Africa.

Examples of turbans

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  Sardar Bhakti Thapa Panwar, a Hindu Chhatriya military officer wearing white turban before 1814

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  A 20^th Century Sikh Maharajah

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  Traditional Rajasthani turban

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  A Tuareg man wearing a tagelmust (or cheche), headgear combining a turban and a veil

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  An Algerian Jew in a turban, circa 1892

Turbans in art

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  "Portrait of a Man" (circa 1430) by Robert Campin

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  "Portrait of a Man" (1730) by Jan Kupecký

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  Portrait of a man in a turban (1813), by Pierre-Nolasque Bergeret

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  "A Sikh" (1943) by Atma Singh

Notable people in turbans

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  Damodar Pande, Mul Kaji (Chief Minister) of Kingdom of Nepal, before 1804

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  Maharaja Duleep Singh, c 1860s

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  Hassan Rouhani, an Iranian

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  Mohammad Daud Miraki, an Afghani

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  Evelina Bledans, a Russia actress wearing a turban in 2010 for a role

Related to turbans

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  18th-century Algerian turban cover

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  19th century turban ornament from northern India