Empire Merch
Description: Definitions of what constitutes the Inland Empire vary; the smallest include just the cities of western Riverside County and southwestern San Bernardino County. Others extend the term to include the Coachella Valley, including Palm Springs. The broadest definitions include all of San Bernardino and Riverside counties. The latter, it's hopefully clear, is the definition depicted with this map.
Description: The double-headed eagle is associated mostly with the Roman/Byzantine Empire, whose use of it represented the Empire's dominion over the Near East and the West. The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire, or Byzantium, was the continuation of the Roman Empire in its eastern provinces during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, when its capital city was Constantinople Was used by the Palaiologoi dinasty, a byzantine greek family that is last dinasty of Emperors and Autocrats of the Romans from 1259 to the Fall of Constantinople in 1453. The symbol was adopted during the Late Medieval to Early Modern period in the Holy Roman Empire on the one hand, and in Orthodox principalities (Serbia and Russia).
