Byzantine Pins and Buttons
Description: Any historian of the Byzantine (Eastern Roman) Empire knows the significance of the year 1453. That was the year the empire dissolved after the Fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Empire. This funny history t-shirt makes a great gift for any Byzantine or Palaiologos Dynasty fan.
Description: Any historian of the Byzantine (Eastern Roman) Empire knows the significance of the year 1453. That was the year the empire dissolved after the Fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Empire. This funny history t-shirt makes a great gift for any Byzantine or Palaiologos Dynasty fan.
Description: Coat of Arms for the Roman Imperial Komnene dynasty. The double headed eagle has been a Roman symbol of caesaropapism, unification of church and state, since late antiquity, though was never a national flag. It is Anatolian in origin, hailing from the Hittites, but via the usage of the Roman Empire many other countries adopted it as well, such as the Holy Roman Empire, the Seljuk Sultanate and their Rumish successors, and the Russian Empire.
Description: Any historian of the Byzantine (Eastern Roman) Empire knows the significance of the year 1453. That was the year the empire dissolved after the Fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Empire. This funny history t-shirt makes a great gift for any Byzantine or Palaiologos Dynasty fan.
Description: Any historian of the Byzantine (Eastern Roman) Empire knows the significance of the year 1453. That was the year the empire dissolved after the Fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Empire. This funny history t-shirt makes a great gift for any Byzantine or Palaiologos Dynasty fan.
Description: Any historian of the Byzantine (Eastern Roman) Empire knows the significance of the year 1453. That was the year the empire dissolved after the Fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Empire. This funny history t-shirt makes a great gift for any Byzantine or Palaiologos Dynasty fan.
Description: Any historian of the Byzantine (Eastern Roman) Empire knows the significance of the year 1453. That was the year the empire dissolved after the Fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Empire. Featuring a distressed double-headed eagle design -- the emblem of the Palaiologoi dynasty of the Byzantine Empire -- this funny history design makes a great gift for the Byzantine fan in your life.
Description: Any historian of the Byzantine (Eastern Roman) Empire knows the significance of the year 1453. That was the year the empire dissolved after the Fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Empire. This funny history t-shirt makes a great gift for any Byzantine or Palaiologos Dynasty fan.
Description: Any historian of the Byzantine (Eastern Roman) Empire knows the significance of the year 1453. That was the year the empire dissolved after the Fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Empire. This funny history t-shirt makes a great gift for any Byzantine or Palaiologos Dynasty fan.
Description: Any historian of the Byzantine (Eastern Roman) Empire knows the significance of the year 1453. That was the year the empire dissolved after the Fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Empire. This funny history t-shirt makes a great gift for any Byzantine or Palaiologos Dynasty fan.
Description: Any historian of the Byzantine (Eastern Roman) Empire knows the significance of the year 1453. That was the year the empire dissolved after the Fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Empire. This funny history t-shirt makes a great gift for any Byzantine or Palaiologos Dynasty fan.
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).
Description: In heraldry and vexillology, the double-headed eagle (or double-eagle) is a charge associated with the concept of Empire. Most modern uses of the symbol are directly or indirectly associated with its use by the Roman/Byzantine Empire, whose use of it represented the Empire's dominion over the Near East and the West. Used in the Eastern Roman Empire as a dynastic emblem of the Palaiologoi, it 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) on the other, representing an augmentation of the (single-headed) eagle associated with the Roman Empire.(Source:Wikipedia)
