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2. Byzantine flags and insignia - Wikipedia

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   Byzantine flags and insignia. For most of its history, the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire did not use heraldry in the Western European sense of permanent motifs transmitted through hereditary right. [1] Various large aristocratic families employed certain symbols to identify themselves; [1] the use of the cross, and of icons of Christ, the ...

3. Double-headed eagle - Wikipedia

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   The double-headed eagle is an iconographic symbol originating in the Bronze Age. A heraldic charge, it is used with the concept of an empire. Most modern uses of the emblem are directly or indirectly associated with its use by the late Byzantine Empire, originally a dynastic emblem of the Palaiologoi.

4. History of Christian flags - Wikipedia

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   Likewise, the flags of the Byzantine Empire often depicted "a bowl with a cross, symbol[ic] of the Byzantine worldly domination for centuries and of the ecumenical mission to spread Christianity to all the world". [3] Many officially Christian states and predominantly Christian countries have flags with Christian symbolism. Many flags used by ...

5. File:Byzantine imperial flag, 14th century, square.svg ...

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   File:Byzantine imperial flag, 14th century, square.svg. Size of this PNG preview of this SVG file: 600 × 600 pixels. Other resolutions: 240 × 240 pixels | 480 × 480 pixels | 768 × 768 pixels | 1,024 × 1,024 pixels | 2,048 × 2,048 pixels | 700 × 700 pixels. This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons. Information from its description page ...

6. File:Byzantine imperial flag, 14th century.svg - Wikipedia

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   Summary. Description Byzantine imperial flag, 14th century.svg. English: The Byzantine imperial ensign (βασιλικόν φλάμουλον), as depicted in the 14th-century Castilian Book of All Kingdoms, and described in the Treatise on Offices by the mid 14th-century Byzantine writer Pseudo-Kodinos as being hoisted on imperial naval vessels.

7. History of the Byzantine Empire - Wikipedia

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   The Byzantine Empire's history is generally periodised from late antiquity until the Fall of Constantinople in 1453 AD. From the 3rd to 6th centuries, the Greek East and Latin West of the Roman Empire gradually diverged, marked by Diocletian's (r. 284–305) formal partition of its administration in 285, [1] the establishment of an eastern capital in Constantinople by Constantine I in 330, [n ...

8. File:Byzantine imperial flag, 14th century, square according ...

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   English: Square version of the Byzantine imperial ensign (βασιλικόν φλάμουλον) under the Palaiologos dynasty, as exactly depicted in the Guillem Soler's portolan chart of c. 1380 and the Catalan Atlas of 1375.

9. File:Byzantine Empire Flag (1350 AD).svg - Wikipedia

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   File:Byzantine Empire Flag (1350 AD).svg. Size of this PNG preview of this SVG file: 360 × 360 pixels. Other resolutions: 240 × 240 pixels | 480 × 480 pixels | 768 × 768 pixels | 1,024 × 1,024 pixels | 2,048 × 2,048 pixels. This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons. Information from its description page there is shown below.