Popular War Memorials in Europe
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Arc de Triomphe
Monumental neoclassical arch serving as a war memorial and national symbol, featuring sculptures and a viewpoint with panoramic city views.
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Liberty Statue
Bronze war memorial erected in 1947 featuring a female figure holding a palm branch, symbolizing freedom and liberation. It stands on a hilltop offering panoramic views of the city.
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Millennium Memorial
Neoclassical monument featuring historic sculptures that commemorate a thousand years of Hungarian history and founding tribes.
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Soviet War Memorial Tiergarten
Historic war memorial and military cemetery commemorating Soviet soldiers who died during World War II, featuring statues, tanks, and artillery pieces.
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National Monument
A 22-meter-high obelisk war memorial dedicated to the Dutch victims of World War II and other armed conflicts, located in a central city square. It features sculptures, reliefs, and urns containing soil from war cemeteries and serves as a site for national remembrance ceremonies.
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Irish National War Memorial Gardens
The Irish National War Memorial Gardens is an Irish war memorial in Islandbridge, Dublin, dedicated "to the memory of the 49,400 Irish…
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Tomb of Unknown Soldier
The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is a war memorial located in Syntagma Square in Athens, in front of the Old Royal Palace.
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The D-Day Beaches
The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of…
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Animals in War
The Animals in War Memorial is a war memorial, in Hyde Park, London, commemorating the countless animals that have served and died under…
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Tower Hill Memorial
The Tower Hill Memorial is a pair of Commonwealth War Graves Commission memorials in Trinity Square Gardens, on Tower Hill in London,…
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The Cenotaph
The Cenotaph is a war memorial on Whitehall in London, England. Designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, it was unveiled in 1920 as the United Kingdom…
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Memorial of the Razing of Anogeia
The Razing of Anogeia or the Holocaust of Anogeia refers to the complete destruction of the village of Anogeia in central Crete and the…
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Memorial complex "Khatyn"
Khatyn was a village of 26 houses and 157 inhabitants in Belarus, in Lahoysk Raion, Minsk Region, 50 km away from Minsk.
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Siege of Pskov
The siege of Pskov, known as the Pskov Defense in Russia, took place between August 1581 and February 1582, when the army of the Polish…
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Little green men
The phrase "little green men" refers to masked soldiers of the Russian Federation in unmarked green army uniforms and carrying modern…
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Eternity Memorial Complex
The Eternity Memorial Complex is a memorial located in Chișinău, the capital of Moldova. The memorial is located along P.
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Battle of Roliça
In the Battle of Roliça an Anglo-Portuguese army under Sir Arthur Wellesley defeated an outnumbered Imperial French division under General…
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Swedish lion
The Swedish Lion, or "the lion monument of Narva", are two statues erected as monuments in memory of the 1700 battle of Narva in the city…
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14th Searchlight Battery memorial plaque
The 14th Searchlight Battery was a Finnish anti-aircraft searchlight battery formed from women of the Lotta Svärd organization at the end…
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Semen Paliy
Semen Paliy was a Ukrainian Cossack polkovnyk. Born in Chernihiv region, Paliy settled in Zaporizhian Sich at a very young age and gained…
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Statue of Liberty
The Statue of Liberty is a bronze statue erected at the harbor of Mytilene on the island of Lesbos in Greece.
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