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    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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  • The Double-headed eagles derby is a football derby between AEK Athens and PAOK. Both teams have the same roots, being refugees from Constantinople (AEK...
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  • 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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    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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    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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    The Serbian eagle (Serbian Cyrillic: Српски орао, romanized: Srpski orao) is a double-headed heraldic eagle, also known as the White eagle (Serbian Cyrillic:...
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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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    "Under the Double Eagle" (German: Unter dem Doppeladler), Op. 159, is an 1893 march composed by J. F. Wagner, an Austrian military music composer. The...
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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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    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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    unofficial flags were used by Greeks, usually employing the Byzantine double-headed eagle (see below), the cross, depictions of saints and various mottoes...
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  • Double-headed may refer to: Double-headed eagle, common symbol in heraldry and vexillology Double-heading, the use of two independently operated locomotives...
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    of arms is directly derived from its medieval original, with the double-headed eagle having Byzantine and earlier antecedents. The general tincture corresponds...
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    the Indo-Parthian Kingdom, built parts of the city including the double headed eagle stupa and the temple of the sun god. The city was overtaken by the...
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    empress; the empress' robes had double-headed eagles, while the emperor's robes had single-headed eagles. The eagle was later used as an imperial symbol...
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    discussed restoring the double-headed eagles. In 2010, President Dmitry Medvedev called for the return of the two-headed eagle to the Spasskaya Tower after...
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    Flag of the Greek Orthodox Church (category Double-headed eagle)
    diaspora under the Patriarchate use a black double-headed eagle in a yellow field as their flag or emblem. The eagle is depicted as clutching a sword and an...
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    Coat of arms of Serbia (category Double-headed eagle)
    state and Serbian people across the centuries: the Serbian eagle (a silver double-headed eagle adopted from the Nemanjić dynasty) and the Serbian cross...
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    Polycephaly (redirect from Two-headedness)
    There are many occurrences of multi-headed animals in mythology. In heraldry and vexillology, the double-headed eagle is a common symbol, though no such...
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    white-blue-red flag with a double-headed eagle, or under a white-red-blue pennant and a white-red-blue aft flag with a double-headed eagle. In October 1699, Peter...
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  • visually demonstrate the double-headed eagle, the main image on the Albanian flag. The symbolism of the double-headed eagle among Albanians encapsulates...
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    Coat of arms of Armenia (category Coats of arms with eagles)
    chronicle, and bas-relief materials leads us to conclude that the double-headed eagle could refer to Arshakid Armenia, with the only difference being that...
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  • of a double-headed golden eagle. The logo is thus reminiscent of the German national coat of arms, even if this does not show a double-headed eagle but...
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    Flag of Albania (category Double-headed eagle)
    silhouetted black double-headed eagle in the center of a red background. The red stands for bravery, strength, valour and bloodshed, while the Eagle represents...
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    Coat of arms of Austria (category Coats of arms with eagles)
    Austria states expressly that the "new" single headed Austrian eagle is based not on the double headed eagle (symbol of the Habsburgs since 1804, and previously...
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    its center gold rays between its arms. The black double-headed eagle hung by its two crowned heads from an enamelled Russian imperial crown, which, in...
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    Serbia and Montenegro consisted of a shield with the Serbian eagle (a white double-headed eagle adopted from the Nemanjić dynasty) and the shield with a quartering...
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