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Monument

A monument is a type of structure created to commemorate a person or event, or which has become relevant to a social group as a part of their remembrance of historic times, or cultural heritage, due to its artistic, historical, political, technical or architectural importance. Examples of monuments include statues, (war) memorials, historical buildings…

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Creation and functions

Loss and destruction

Protection and preservation

Types

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Monument

Nodes113
Edges112
Triples230
Avg. degree1.98
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Components1

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Monument

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related to Types · 114
Monument → Arc, Arch, Arlington, Beijing, Belfast, Benchmarks, Berlin, Berlin Victory Column, Borobudur, Buildings, Burj Khalifa, Cenotaphs, Central Jakarta, Church, Cleopatra's Needle, Collemaggio, Columns, Concorde, Constantine, Damascus
related to Further reading · 47
Monument → America, America's History, Amsterdam, Ancient Monuments, Art, Ascari, Cambridge University Press, Chaney, Choay, Co, Corrado, Cynthia, Dasgupta, Edward, Egypt, England, European Crossroads, Exchange, Faultines, Françoise
related to Creation and functions · 23
Monument → Archaeologists, Brasília, Europe, For, Françóise Choay, Gordon Childe, Historians, However, In, L'Enfant, Lewis Mumford, Monuments, New Delhi, Older, Paleolithic, Planned, The, These, This, Washington
related to Loss and destruction · 16
Monument → Athens, Belz, Charlemagne, France, In, Irminsul, Like, Megalithic, Morbihan, Parthenon, Pushed, Saxon Wars, Turkish, Venetian, Veyre-Monton, While
related to External links · 8
Monument → Articles, India, Landscapes, Monuments, North Carolina, Sculptures, UKMonuments, Website
related to Protection and preservation · 7
Monument → An, New, Scheduled Monument, The, United Kingdom, United Kingdom's Scheduled Ancient, Until
related to Etymology · 3
Monument → In English, Latin, The
is a · 2
Monument → precisely datable invention of the West... exported and diffused beyond Europe from the late nineteenth century, type of structure created to commemorate a person or event
see also · 2
Monument → Antiquities ActEnglish Heritage Archive, England's

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monuments cultural commemorate world heritage often ancient city also structures new great destroyed national usually historic example used memorial memorials

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Monumentis atype of structure created to commemorate a person or event0.90text
Monumentis aprecisely datable invention of the West... exported and diffused beyond Europe from the late nineteenth century0.90text
Lewis Mumford proposed that the practice began with Paleolithic landmarksinstance ofHistorians0.80text
which served as sites for communication with ancestral spiritsinstance ofHistorians0.80text
Washingtoninstance ofPlanned cities0.80text
D.C.instance ofPlanned cities0.80text
New Delhiinstance ofPlanned cities0.80text
Brasília are often built around monumentsinstance ofPlanned cities0.80text
the village of Oradour-sur-Glane in Franceinstance ofor because an event of great importance occurred there0.80text
erosioninstance ofthere are notable incidents of monuments being intentionally or accidentally destroyed and many monuments are likely to have disappeared through the passage of time and natural…0.80text
Monumentrelated to Creation and functionsArchaeologists0.60section
Monumentrelated to Creation and functionsGordon Childe0.60section

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