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Šargija
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Also known as sharki

thumb left|thumb|225x225px|Bosniak from Sarajevo with a Šargija, 1906. The šargija, şarkiya (, , ), anglicized as shargia is a plucked, fretted long necked lute used in the folk music of various Balkan countries and Thrace including Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Albania, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Greece and Turkey. The instrument is part of a larger family of instruments which includes the tambura, balkan tambura, tamburica, tambouras, çöğür and the bağlama.

Key facts

Instrument.name
Šargija
Instrument.names
Şarkiya
Instrument.image
Ŝargijo.png
Instrument.classification
Plucked string instruments
Instrument.related
Baglama Baglamas Tambura Bouzouki (Greece) Buzuq (Lebanon) Çifteli Choghur Dangubica Tamburica Tambouras Tembûr

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Encyclopedic overview

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  • History
  • Characteristics
  • Sources
  • Additional works which discuss the instrument
  • External links

thumb left|thumb|225x225px|Bosniak from Sarajevo with a Šargija, 1906. The šargija, şarkiya (, , ), anglicized as shargia is a plucked, fretted long necked lute used in the folk music of various Balkan countries and Thrace including Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Albania, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Greece and Turkey. The instrument is part of a larger family of instruments which includes the tambura, balkan tambura, tamburica, tambouras, çöğür and the bağlama.

==History== The instrument was studied by musicologists in the 20th century. Their studies have been characterized as speculative and nationalistic.

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