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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 ...
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.
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.
Ctesiphon was founded in the late 120s BC. It was built on the site of a military camp established across from Seleucia by Mithridates I of Parthia. The reign of Gotarzes I saw Ctesiphon reach a peak as a political and commercial center. The city became the Empire's capital circa 58 BC during the reign of Orodes II.
Description. ByzantineEmpire717+extrainfo+themes.svg. English: Map of the Eastern Roman Empire in 717 A.D. during the Twenty Years' Anarchy . Striped land shows areas constantly raided. There are 12 provinces, of which 7 are classed as Themes: Exarchate of Ravenna. Venetia and Istria.
The Byzantine Empire underwent a golden age under the Justinian dynasty, beginning in 518 AD with the accession of Justin I. Under the Justinian dynasty, particularly the reign of Justinian I, the empire reached its greatest territorial extent since the fall of its Western counterpart, reincorporating North Africa, southern Illyria, southern ...
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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.