Bear Against An Eagle

The late Byzantine Empire chose a two-headed golden eagle as its symbol. It is popularly that one head symbolised ancient Rome, and the other head symbolized "new Rome" at Constantinople. From this derives:
The two-headed eagle is the emblem of "Shqipëria" or Land of the Eagles, which is known in English as Albania (the legendary origin of the name written in The Tale of the Eagle)
After the fall of Constantinople, the Russian Empire took the two-headed eagle as its own symbol.
After his crowning as the new Roman Emperor, Charlemagne adopted the ancient Roman eagle as his own symbol. The Holy Roman Empire born of his kingdom took the eagle, but the Habsburgs replaced the golden eagle by an imperial eagle. From this derives: