Byzantine Eagle Stickers
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)
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: 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: No other symbol manifests the idea of an empire better than the two-headed eagle, and no other empire shaped these ideas into reality better than the Roman Empire. I present to you a magnificent specimen of a golden feathered eagle, bearing on its chest the symbol of the last ruling dynasty - the Paleologos. Glory, splendor, and prestige will befall the person proudly wearing this glorious bird on his or her chest... This, as well as enormous spendings on bird food, as two-headed eagles, because of reasons completely unknown to us, have twice the apetite for all kinds of snacks. The imperial right to rule is, after all, the right to rule the world, but what is the point of all that power if one cannot get his favourite snack?
Description: Proud specimen of double-headed eagle, stright out of the middle ages. Medieval, sharp-looking both East and West, as true Emperor of heraldic birds should. Now you can give him home he's looking for so eagerly. He can guard your mug, phone, clothing or important papers, while giving them most regal look. He doesn't mind, because he loves you - as good Emperor should.
