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* Flags of the World. [http://www.hampshireflag.co.uk/world-flags/allflags/gr-ortho.html Greek Orthodox Church: Oecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople].
* Orthodox Church in America (OCA). [http://www.oca.org/OCworldindex.asp World Orthodox Churches]. (Emblems).
* ''[http://qmackie.wordpress.com/2010/03/01/double-headed-eagles/ Two Views of Double-Headed Eagles].'' '''Northwest Coast Archaeology'''. Posted on March 1, 2010. Retrieved: 2013-06-19.
:<small>After the [[w:Battle of Sitka|Russian-Tlingit Battle of Sitka in 1804]], peace talks were conducted, and [[w:Alexander Andreyevich Baranov|Aleksandr Baranov]], the first governor of colonial Russian Alaska and manager of the Russian-America Company, presented the ''[[w:Tlingit clans|Kiks.adi]]'' Sitka Tlingit leaders with a large medallion, on which was found the Russian imperial symbol. Since that time, the '''double-headed eagle has been a motif widely used in [[w:Tlingit people|Tlingit]] art'''.</small>
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