today it is about a helmet form from Turkish production which the most of the European cavalries just adopted and adapted.
German/Polish name of it -Zischägge- reveals its origin.
Zischägge is derived from çiçek, meaning blossom.
Yes, blossom.
The Form of this helm is like a blossom.
Look at this, it is a blossom, only upside down.
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| Lobster Tailed Pot Helmet - Zischägge - Cicek |
The Turks has this kind of helmets for a very long time in use.
The ancestors we can see by the Seljuk Turks already, probably older.
Because it had an optimal form for the cavalry, it was accepted by the European armies very fast.
According to wiki the Europeans copied this helm already in 16. Century (maybe by Battle of Mohács?).
They adopted and gave this blossom helmet names in their languages. Here some:
Zischägge
Husarische Haube,
Ungarische Sturmhaube
Pappenheimer-Helm
Capeline
Burgonet
horseman's pot
three-barred pot
szyszak
huszársisak
rákfarkas sisak
Casque à queue de homard
ŠišakasШишак
Lobster Tailed Pot Helmet
And now you can enjoy couple of Çiçek helmets from Europe:
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| Sobieski's Çiçek |
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| Zrinski's çiçek |
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| çiçek of of James II of England made in 1686 |
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| Çiçak (XVIe siècle), Osmanli yapimi çiçek |
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