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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 ...
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.
The star and crescent symbol used in the minted coins of the Sassanian Empire from the 3rd century until the 7th century. This coin was coined under Ardashir III. The Adoration of the Magi by Stephan Lochner; on the left, the crescent and star is depicted in the flag of representatives of Byzantium. The conjoined representation of a crescent ...
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 ...
Byzantine flag as shown on some portolan charts Christian empires, such as the Kingdom of Georgia , which became a Christian state in AD 337, adopted Christian symbolism in its flag. [ 2 ] 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 ...
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.
A page from the Zograf Codex with text of the Gospel of Luke. The Glagolitic script ( / ˌɡlæɡəˈlɪtɪk / GLAG-ə-LIT-ik, [ 2] ⰃⰎⰀⰃⰑⰎⰉⰜⰀ, glagolitsa) is the oldest known Slavic alphabet. It is generally agreed that it was created in the 9th century for the purpose of translating liturgical texts into Old Church Slavonic ...
D. Daimonoioannes family (3 P) Dalassenos family (8 P) Diogenes family (7 P) Doukas family (1 C, 10 P)