Double headed bird painted on a traditional house in Bankso old town, Bankso, Bulgaria. Used in the Byzantine Empire as a dynastic emblem of the Palaiologoi, it was adopted during the Late Medieval to Early Modern period in the Holy Roman Empire, and in Orthodox principalities.

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Size: 7360px × 4912px
Location: Bulgaria, Bankso
Photo credit: © J Marshall / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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