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List of obelisks

Index List of obelisks

https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obeliscul_lui_Horea,_Clo%C8%99ca_%C8%99i_Cri%C8%99an_din_Alba_Iulia This List of obelisks contains an incomplete list of obelisks sorted by their (current) country. [1]

99 relations: Aachen, AD 50, Arles, Aswan, Axum, Bad Harzburg, Bad Salzuflen, Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, Berlin, Bern, Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III, Blantyre Monument, Boboli Gardens, Braunschweig, Bremen, British Museum, Broken Obelisk, Buchenwald concentration camp, Buenos Aires, Caesarea Maritima, Cairo, Cairo International Airport, Carl Gotthard Langhans, Catania, Central Park, Cleopatra's Needle, Conolly's Folly, Copenhagen, County Dublin, County Kildare, Dalhousie Obelisk, Darmstadt, Dresden, Durham University, Edinburgh, England, Erfurt, Erskine, Florence, Frankfurt, Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff, Glasgow, Hyde Park Obelisk, Istanbul, Justizpalast (Munich), Karlsruhe, Karnak, Kiev, Killiney Hill, Kingston Lacy, ..., Koblenz, Krasnodar, Landshut, Leipzig, Leningrad Hero City Obelisk, Liberty Column, Copenhagen, List of obelisks in Rome, London, Luxor, Luxor Temple, Münster, Munich, Museum of Modern Art, Nelson Monument, Glasgow, New Garden, Potsdam, New York City, Obelisco de Buenos Aires, Obelisk, Obelisk (Prague Castle), Obelisk at Slottsbacken, Obelisk of Theodosius, Ohrdruf, Paris, Philae obelisk, Place de la Concorde, Political Martyrs' Monument, Potsdam, Prague, Rheinsberg, Riga, Rome, Saint Petersburg, Sanssouci, Schloß Holte-Stukenbrock, Scotland, Singapore, St Andrews, Stockholm, Sydney, Titus Sextius Africanus, Unfinished obelisk, Urbino, Vienna, Warsaw, Washington Monument, Washington, D.C., Wellington Monument, Dublin, Wiesbaden, Zamalek. Expand index (49 more) »

Aachen

Aachen or Bad Aachen, French and traditional English: Aix-la-Chapelle, is a spa and border city.

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AD 50

AD 50 (L) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Arles

Arles (Provençal Arle in both classical and Mistralian norms; Arelate in Classical Latin) is a city and commune in the south of France, in the Bouches-du-Rhône department, of which it is a subprefecture, in the former province of Provence.

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Aswan

Aswan (أسوان; ⲥⲟⲩⲁⲛ) is a city in the south of Egypt, the capital of the Aswan Governorate.

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Axum

Axum or Aksum (ኣኽሱም, አክሱም) is a city in the northern part of Ethiopia.

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Bad Harzburg

Bad Harzburg is a town in central Germany, in the Goslar district of Lower Saxony.

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Bad Salzuflen

Bad Salzuflen is a town and thermal spa resort in the Lippe district of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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Bergen-Belsen concentration camp

Bergen-Belsen, or Belsen, was a Nazi concentration camp in what is today Lower Saxony in northern Germany, southwest of the town of Bergen near Celle.

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Berlin

Berlin is the capital and the largest city of Germany, as well as one of its 16 constituent states.

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Bern

Bern or Berne (Bern, Bärn, Berne, Berna, Berna) is the de facto capital of Switzerland, referred to by the Swiss as their (e.g. in German) Bundesstadt, or "federal city".

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Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III

The Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III is a black limestone Assyrian sculpture with many scenes in bas-relief and inscriptions.

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Blantyre Monument

Blantyre Monument is a commemorative stone in Erskine, Renfrewshire.

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Boboli Gardens

The Boboli Gardens (Giardino di Boboli) is a park in Florence, Italy, that is home to a collection of sculptures dating from the 16th through the 18th centuries, with some Roman antiquities.

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Braunschweig

Braunschweig (Low German: Brunswiek), also called Brunswick in English, is a city in Lower Saxony, Germany, north of the Harz mountains at the farthest navigable point of the Oker river which connects it to the North Sea via the Aller and Weser rivers.

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Bremen

The City Municipality of Bremen (Stadtgemeinde Bremen) is a Hanseatic city in northwestern Germany, which belongs to the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (also called just "Bremen" for short), a federal state of Germany.

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British Museum

The British Museum, located in the Bloomsbury area of London, United Kingdom, is a public institution dedicated to human history, art and culture.

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Broken Obelisk

Broken Obelisk is a sculpture designed by Barnett Newman between 1963 and 1967.

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Buchenwald concentration camp

Buchenwald concentration camp (German: Konzentrationslager (KZ) Buchenwald,; literally, in English: beech forest) was a German Nazi concentration camp established on Ettersberg hill near Weimar, Germany, in July 1937, one of the first and the largest of the concentration camps on German soil, following Dachau's opening just over four years earlier.

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Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires is the capital and most populous city of Argentina.

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Caesarea Maritima

Caesarea Maritima (Greek: Παράλιος Καισάρεια Parálios Kaisáreia), also known as Caesarea Palestinae, is an Israeli National Park in the Sharon plain, including the ancient remains of the coastal city of Caesarea.

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Cairo

Cairo (القاهرة) is the capital of Egypt.

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Cairo International Airport

Cairo International Airport (Arabic:; Maṭār El Qāhira El Dawly) is the international airport of Cairo and the busiest airport in Egypt and serves as the primary hub for EgyptAir, EgyptAir Express and Nile Air as well as several other airlines.

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Carl Gotthard Langhans

Carl Gotthard Langhans (15 December 1732 – 1 October 1808) was a Prussian master builder and royal architect.

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Catania

Catania is the second largest city of Sicily after Palermo located on the east coast facing the Ionian Sea.

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Central Park

Central Park is an urban park in Manhattan, New York City.

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Cleopatra's Needle

Cleopatra's Needle is the popular name for each of three Ancient Egyptian obelisks re-erected in London, Paris, and New York City during the nineteenth century.

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Conolly's Folly

Conolly's Folly (Baois Uí Chongaile), a.k.a. The Obelisk or originally The Conolly Folly, is an obelisk structure and National Monument located near Maynooth, County Kildare, Ireland.

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Copenhagen

Copenhagen (København; Hafnia) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark.

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County Dublin

County Dublin (Contae Bhaile Átha Cliath or Contae Átha Cliath) is a county in Ireland.

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County Kildare

County Kildare (Contae Chill Dara) is a county in Ireland.

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Dalhousie Obelisk

The Dalhousie Obelisk is a memorial obelisk in the Civic District of Singapore, located on the north bank of the Singapore River in the Downtown Core, within the Central Area in Singapore's central business district.

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Darmstadt

Darmstadt is a city in the state of Hesse in Germany, located in the southern part of the Rhine-Main-Area (Frankfurt Metropolitan Region).

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Dresden

Dresden (Upper and Lower Sorbian: Drježdźany, Drážďany, Drezno) is the capital city and, after Leipzig, the second-largest city of the Free State of Saxony in Germany.

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Durham University

Durham University (legally the University of Durham) is a collegiate public research university in Durham, North East England, with a second campus in Stockton-on-Tees.

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Edinburgh

Edinburgh (Dùn Èideann; Edinburgh) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 council areas.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Erfurt

Erfurt is the capital and largest city in the state of Thuringia, central Germany.

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Erskine

Erskine is a town in the council area of Renfrewshire, and historic county of the same name, situated in the West Central Lowlands of Scotland.

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Florence

Florence (Firenze) is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany.

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Frankfurt

Frankfurt, officially the City of Frankfurt am Main ("Frankfurt on the Main"), is a metropolis and the largest city in the German state of Hesse and the fifth-largest city in Germany.

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Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff

Hans Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff (17 February 1699 – 16 September 1753) was a painter and architect in Prussia.

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Glasgow

Glasgow (Glesga; Glaschu) is the largest city in Scotland, and third most populous in the United Kingdom.

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Hyde Park Obelisk

The Hyde Park Obelisk is an obelisk in the Victorian Egyptian architectural style located in Hyde Park in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

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Istanbul

Istanbul (or or; İstanbul), historically known as Constantinople and Byzantium, is the most populous city in Turkey and the country's economic, cultural, and historic center.

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Justizpalast (Munich)

The Justizpalast Munich (Palace of Justice) are two courthouses and administrative buildings in Munich.

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Karlsruhe

Karlsruhe (formerly Carlsruhe) is the second-largest city in the state of Baden-Württemberg, in southwest Germany, near the French-German border.

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Karnak

The Karnak Temple Complex, commonly known as Karnak (from Arabic Ka-Ranak meaning "fortified village"), comprises a vast mix of decayed temples, chapels, pylons, and other buildings in Egypt.

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Kiev

Kiev or Kyiv (Kyiv; Kiyev; Kyjev) is the capital and largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper.

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Killiney Hill

Killiney Hill (Cnoc Chill Iníon Léinín) is the southernmost of the two hills which form the southern boundary of Dublin Bay (the other being Dalkey Hill).

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Kingston Lacy

Kingston Lacy is a country house and estate near Wimborne Minster, Dorset, England.

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Koblenz

Koblenz (Coblence), spelled Coblenz before 1926, is a German city situated on both banks of the Rhine where it is joined by the Moselle.

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Krasnodar

Krasnodar (p) is a city and the administrative center of Krasnodar Krai, Russia, located on the Kuban River, approximately northeast of the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk.

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Landshut

Landshut (Landsad) is a town in Bavaria in the south-east of Germany.

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Leipzig

Leipzig is the most populous city in the federal state of Saxony, Germany.

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Leningrad Hero City Obelisk

Leningrad Hero City Obelisk (Обелиск «Городу-герою Ленинграду») is a monument in the shape of an obelisk located in Vosstaniya Square in Saint Petersburg, Russia, which was known as Leningrad from 1924 to 1991.

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Liberty Column, Copenhagen

The Liberty Column (Danish: Frihedsstøtten), located in front of Central Station in Copenhagen, Denmark, is a 20 meter tall obelisque erected in memory of the peasant reforms in 1788 which led to the abolition of adscription (Danish: Stavnsbåndet).

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List of obelisks in Rome

The city of Rome harbours the most obelisks in the world.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Luxor

Luxor (الأقصر; Egyptian Arabic:; Sa'idi Arabic) is a city in Upper (southern) Egypt and the capital of Luxor Governorate.

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Luxor Temple

Luxor Temple is a large Ancient Egyptian temple complex located on the east bank of the Nile River in the city today known as Luxor (ancient Thebes) and was constructed approximately 1400 BCE.

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Münster

Münster (Low German: Mönster; Latin: Monasterium, from the Greek μοναστήριον monastērion, "monastery") is an independent city (Kreisfreie Stadt) in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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Munich

Munich (München; Minga) is the capital and the most populated city in the German state of Bavaria, on the banks of the River Isar north of the Bavarian Alps.

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Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues.

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Nelson Monument, Glasgow

The Nelson Monument is a commemorative obelisk built in 1806 in honour of Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson, constructed the year after his death at the Battle of Trafalgar.

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New Garden, Potsdam

The New Garden (Neuer Garten) in Potsdam is a park of 102.5 hectares located southwest of Berlin, Germany, in northern Potsdam and bordering on the lakes Heiliger See and Jungfernsee.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Obelisco de Buenos Aires

The Obelisco de Buenos Aires (Obelisk of Buenos Aires) is a national historic monument and icon of Buenos Aires.

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Obelisk

An obelisk (from ὀβελίσκος obeliskos; diminutive of ὀβελός obelos, "spit, nail, pointed pillar") is a tall, four-sided, narrow tapering monument which ends in a pyramid-like shape or pyramidion at the top.

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Obelisk (Prague Castle)

The obelisk at Prague Castle is a granite monolith and World War I memorial designed by Jože Plečnik, installed at Prague Castle in Prague, Czech Republic.

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Obelisk at Slottsbacken

The Obelisk at Slottsbacken adjacent to the southern entrances of the Royal Palace in Stockholm Old Town is considered to be the very centre point of the Swedish capital Stockholm.

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Obelisk of Theodosius

The Obelisk of Theodosius (Dikilitaş) is the Ancient Egyptian obelisk of Pharaoh Thutmose III re-erected in the Hippodrome of Constantinople (known today as At Meydanı or Sultanahmet Meydanı, in the modern city of Istanbul, Turkey) by the Roman emperor Theodosius I in the 4th century AD.

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Ohrdruf

Ohrdruf is a small town in the district of Gotha in the German state of Thuringia.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and most populous city of France, with an area of and a population of 2,206,488.

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Philae obelisk

The Philae obelisk is one of twin obelisks discovered in 1815 at Philae in Upper Egypt.

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Place de la Concorde

The Place de la Concorde is one of the major public squares in Paris, France.

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Political Martyrs' Monument

The Political Martyrs Monument, located in the Old Calton Burial Ground on Calton Hill, Edinburgh, commemorates five political reformists from the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

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Potsdam

Potsdam is the capital and largest city of the German federal state of Brandenburg.

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Prague

Prague (Praha, Prag) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, the 14th largest city in the European Union and also the historical capital of Bohemia.

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Rheinsberg

Rheinsberg is a town and a municipality in the Ostprignitz-Ruppin district, in Brandenburg, Germany.

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Riga

Riga (Rīga) is the capital and largest city of Latvia.

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Rome

Rome (Roma; Roma) is the capital city of Italy and a special comune (named Comune di Roma Capitale).

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Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg (p) is Russia's second-largest city after Moscow, with 5 million inhabitants in 2012, part of the Saint Petersburg agglomeration with a population of 6.2 million (2015).

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Sanssouci

Sanssouci is the summer palace of Frederick the Great, King of Prussia, in Potsdam, near Berlin.

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Schloß Holte-Stukenbrock

Schloß Holte-Stukenbrock is a town in the district of Gütersloh in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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Scotland

Scotland (Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and covers the northern third of the island of Great Britain.

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Singapore

Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign city-state and island country in Southeast Asia.

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St Andrews

St Andrews (S.; Saunt Aundraes; Cill Rìmhinn) is a town on the east coast of Fife in Scotland, 10 miles (16 km) southeast of Dundee and 30 miles (50 km) northeast of Edinburgh.

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Stockholm

Stockholm is the capital of Sweden and the most populous city in the Nordic countries; 952,058 people live in the municipality, approximately 1.5 million in the urban area, and 2.3 million in the metropolitan area.

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Sydney

Sydney is the state capital of New South Wales and the most populous city in Australia and Oceania.

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Titus Sextius Africanus

Titus Sextius Africanus was a Roman senator who was deterred by Agrippina the Younger from marrying Junia Silana.

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Unfinished obelisk

The unfinished obelisk is the largest known ancient obelisk and is located in the northern region of the stone quarries of ancient Egypt in Aswan (Assuan), Egypt.

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Urbino

Urbino is a walled city in the Marche region of Italy, south-west of Pesaro, a World Heritage Site notable for a remarkable historical legacy of independent Renaissance culture, especially under the patronage of Federico da Montefeltro, duke of Urbino from 1444 to 1482.

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Vienna

Vienna (Wien) is the federal capital and largest city of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria.

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Warsaw

Warsaw (Warszawa; see also other names) is the capital and largest city of Poland.

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Washington Monument

The Washington Monument is an obelisk on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., built to commemorate George Washington, once commander-in-chief of the Continental Army and the first President of the United States.

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Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington or D.C., is the capital of the United States of America.

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Wellington Monument, Dublin

The Wellington Monument (Leacht Wellington), or more correctly the Wellington Testimonial,A testimonial is erected to a living person, as Wellington was when construction started is an obelisk located in the Phoenix Park, Dublin, Ireland.

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Wiesbaden

Wiesbaden is a city in central western Germany and the capital of the federal state of Hesse.

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Zamalek

Zamalek (الزمالك which is originally derived from Turkish: üzümlük, meaning vineyard) is an affluent district of western Cairo encompassing the northern portion of Gezira Island in the Nile River.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_obelisks

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