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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 ...
Byzantine Empire. The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire, was the continuation of the Roman Empire centered in Constantinople during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. The eastern half of the Empire survived the conditions that caused the fall of the West in the 5th century AD, and continued to exist until the fall ...
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.
This flag is therefore a western interpretation of the Byzantine flag. WARNING: This flag is a unique combination of the Byzantine and the Genoese flags, hence it is not the "Byzantine flag". Use either File:Byzantine imperial flag, 14th century, square.svg or File:Byzantine imperial flag, 14th century.svg for the latter.
This image is a derivative work of the following images: File:ByzantineEmpire1265.svg licensed with Cc-by-sa-2.5 2006-01-12T08:21:18Z Neuceu 1708x816 (569084 Bytes) Plus grande, correction orthographique; 2005-11-03T21:57:42Z Neuceu 854x408 (569081 Bytes)
The medieval Christian flags with different kinds of crosses (Latin, Templars, St. John's or arrow-head cross', St. Andrew's or saltire, 'nailed", etc.) linked the knights with the church. It was a religious symbol of Christian 'holy wars' or crusades which invigorated and united the enemies of Islam.
English: The flag of the late Eastern Roman Empire under the Palaiologos dynasty, as depicted in the Catalan Atlas of 1375. See also the images at: Category talk:Flags of the Palaiologos dynasty#About the Bs.
This image is a derivative work of the following images: File:ByzantineEmpire717+extrainfo+themes.PNG licensed with Cc-by-sa-3.0-migrated, GFDL 2007-08-02T18:27:34Z Amonixinator 800x370 (29751 Bytes) {{Information |Byzantine Empire in 717 AD. Stripped land shows areas constantly raided.