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The ''divellion'' or ''dibellion'' ( gr, διβέλλιον) was a symbol of the late Byzantine Empire, the Emperor's personal banner. It was carried by the '' skouterios'' ("shield-bearer"), alongside the Imperial shield, on official events. Emperor
The ''divellion'' or ''dibellion'' ( gr, διβέλλιον) was a symbol of the late Byzantine Empire, the Emperor's personal banner. It was carried by the '' skouterios'' ("shield-bearer"), alongside the Imperial shield, on official events. Emperor Stefan Dušan
Stefan Uroš IV Dušan ( sr-Cyrl, Стефан Урош IV Душан, ), known as Dušan the Mighty ( sr, / ; circa 1308 – 20 December 1355), was the King of Serbia from 8 September 1331 and Tsar (or Emperor) and autocrat of the Serbs, Gr ...
of Serbia
Serbia (, ; Serbian language, Serbian: , , ), officially the Republic of Serbia (Serbian language, Serbian: , , ), is a landlocked country in Southeast Europe, Southeastern and Central Europe, situated at the crossroads of the Pannonian Bas ...
(r. 1331–55) also adopted the Imperial ''divellion'', which was purple and had a golden cross in the center.
See also
*Byzantine flags and insignia For most of its history, the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire did not know or use heraldry in the Western European sense of permanent motifs transmitted through hereditary right. Various large aristocratic families employed certain symbols to identi ...
*Labarum
The labarum ( el, λάβαρον) was a ''vexillum'' (military standard) that displayed the "Chi-Rho" symbol ☧, a christogram formed from the first two Greek letters of the word "Christ" ( el, ΧΡΙΣΤΟΣ, or Χριστός) – ''Chi'' (χ ...
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*{{cite book, last=Hendry, first=Michael F., title=Catalogue of the Byzantine Coins in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection and in the Whittemore Collection, volume=4, issue=1, chapter=Imperial Insignia, url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NN1xNdYH6n0C&pg=PA175, year=1966, publisher=Dumbarton Oaks, isbn=978-0-88402-233-6, pages=175– 2nd millennium in the Byzantine Empire Byzantine regalia Serbian Empire Historical flags