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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 ...
Flag of the vice president of the Philippines. The former vice presidential seal against a white field. Legislative branch. 1987. Flag of the president of the Senate. The seal of the Senate against a red field. 1987. Flag of the speaker of the House. The seal of the House of Representatives against a yellow field.
The Evolution of the Philippine Flag ( Filipino: Ebolusyon ng Bandilang Pilipino) [1] is a set of flags consisting of select banners of the Katipunan of the Philippine Revolution. Often displayed with the flag of the First Republic, it is sometimes erroneously interpreted to imply the chronology of the national flag of the Philippines .
The Byzantine army was the primary military body of the Byzantine armed forces, serving alongside the Byzantine navy. A direct continuation of the Eastern Roman army, shaping and developing itself on the legacy of the late Hellenistic armies, [ 1] it maintained a similar level of discipline, strategic prowess and organization.
The Byzantine Empire was a multi-ethnic monarchic theocracy adopting, following, and applying the Orthodox-Hellenistic political systems and philosophies. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The monarch was the incarnation of the law— nomos empsychos —and his power was immeasurable and divine in origin insofar as he channeled God's divine grace, maintaining what ...
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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 ...
Byzantine Empire in the year 1350. The Byzantine Empire entered into a new era of decay in 1341. The Empire was ravaged by multiple serious disasters [18] — alongside wars and civil wars, renewed epidemics of bubonic plague swept through its diminished lands. The first outbreak occurred in 1347, and between the 1360s and 1420s, eight further ...