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Heelless leather slippers made from Northwest Africa
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Balgha (Arabic: البلغة, romanized: l-bəlġa), also spelled balga, belgha, or belga, are heelless slippers made from leather. They are part of traditional dresses of the Maghreb region.[1]
Balghas are worn by men and women of all social classes, both in urban and rural areas.
Sources
[edit]- ^ González Echegaray, Joaquín; Díaz Gómez, Alberto. (1988). Manual de etnografía cántabra. Santander: Ediciones Librería Estudio. ISBN 84-85429-76-1.
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- Penguin Books, ed. (1 August 2011). DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Tunisia: Tunisia. Dorling Kindersley. p. 350. ISBN 978-0-7566-8479-2.
- McLachlan, Anne (1997). Morocco Handbook with Mauritania. Footprint Handbooks. p. 238. ISBN 9780900751905.
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