Modern Byzantium - the Flags

Abdul Hadi Pasha

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The alternate US threads have caused me to dredge up the flags I was planning to use for an AH I was working on with a surviving Roman Empire, POD Manzikert. Here is the flag:
 

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Xen

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Cool flags, but they seemed to have changed from what they were in OTL. Of course flags have a tendency to do this, perhaps the Byzantine Empire becomes a Republic and changes its flag as a result?

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Abdul Hadi Pasha

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Xen said:
Cool flags, but they seemed to have changed from what they were in OTL. Of course flags have a tendency to do this, perhaps the Byzantine Empire becomes a Republic and changes its flag as a result?
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There's only one source for that flag, "El Libro del conoscimiento de todos los Reynos" an apocryphal anonymous travel book. Apparently, the flag usually looked like this:
 

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Abdul Hadi Pasha

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Very much liking the Paleologos arms and banners, I have Theodora the Great marrying Michael Paleologos, so his arms are adopted just as flags are starting to come into use. In any case, the double-headed eagle is a poweful symbol for an empire centered at Constantinople, better than a boring ole' crouped cross.
 

Xen

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Abdul Hadi Pasha said:
Very much liking the Paleologos arms and banners, I have Theodora the Great marrying Michael Paleologos, so his arms are adopted just as flags are starting to come into use. In any case, the double-headed eagle is a poweful symbol for an empire centered at Constantinople, better than a boring ole' crouped cross.
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Theodora the Great, I thought she died about 20 years before her husband did, its believed she had breast cancer. Maybe if he is killed in battle, Theodora rules as the Empress and the marries Michael. Or am I thinking of the wrong Theodora
 

Abdul Hadi Pasha

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Xen said:
Theodora the Great, I thought she died about 20 years before her husband did, its believed she had breast cancer. Maybe if he is killed in battle, Theodora rules as the Empress and the marries Michael. Or am I thinking of the wrong Theodora
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Oh, sorry, I should have spelled out that I meant a fictional, non-historical Theodora from the 13th c.

With regard to the flag thing, the site you referenced got their flag from the source I referenced.
 
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