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An eagle with two heads facing opposite ways.
Also known as: Byzantine two-headed eagle, Eagle with two necks and heads, Dvuglavy oryol, Twin-headed eagle emblem
The double-headed eagle is used by Russia, Serbia, Albania, Montenegro and the Orthodox Church, and its two heads are usually explained as looking east and west. The motif is far older than any of them — it appears in Hittite art of the second millennium BCE.
Denotes a heraldic eagle with two heads facing in opposite directions, used as a state or church emblem by several countries and by the Eastern Orthodox Church.
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Is commonly explained as looking east and west over a territory spanning both, a reading attached to the Byzantine and later Russian uses.
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Predates all its modern users by millennia, appearing in Hittite reliefs of the second millennium BCE, so its European heraldic meanings are later attachments to an old motif.
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An eagle with wings spread and a single body bearing two necks and heads turned away from each other, often crowned, on a shield or field.
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