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...
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three-headed eagle, also called triple-headed eagle, is a mythological or heraldic bird, as it were an augmented version of the double-headed eagle. A three-headed...
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Byzantine flags and insignia (redirect from Byzantine double-headed eagle)
emperors struck bronze coins with a double-headed eagle on them. The Palaiologan emperors used the double-headed eagle as a symbol of the senior members...
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symbolism of the heraldic eagle is connected with the Roman Empire on one hand (especially in the case of the double-headed eagle), and with Saint John the...
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Coat of arms of Germany (redirect from German eagle)
14th centuries (a black single-headed eagle on a golden background), before the emperors adopted the double-headed eagle, beginning with Sigismund of Luxemburg...
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The Liberty Head double eagle or Coronet double eagle is an American twenty-dollar gold piece struck as a pattern coin in 1849, and for commerce from...
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A double eagle is a gold coin of the United States with a denomination of $20. (Its gold content of 0.9675 troy ounces [30.09 g] was worth $20 at the 1849...
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decorated with a double-headed eagle, usually in the shape of a Quaternion Eagle. The Reichsadler means "Imperial Eagle" or double-headed eagle which was the...
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sources. The eagle appears headless today, but it was described by the 17th-century Ottoman explorer Evliya Çelebi as having been double-headed, painted in...
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Reichsadler (redirect from Eagle of the German Reich)
the imperial eagle (Codex Balduini Trevirorum, c. 1340). Imperial eagle in a seal used by Charles IV in 1349. Double-headed imperial eagle in the seal...
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