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The Arch of Triumph (Korean: 개선문; Hancha: 凱旋門; MR: Kaesŏnmun) is a triumphal arch in Pyongyang, North Korea. It was built to commemorate the Korean resistance to Japan from 1925 to 1945. It is the second tallest memorial arch in the world, after Monumento a la Revolución in Mexico, standing 60 m (197 ft) high and 50 m (164 ft) wide.
Arch of Triumph (Pyongyang), a 1982 structure in Pyongyang, North Korea; Monumental Arch of Palmyra, a 3rd-century Roman ornamental archway in Syria; Siegestor, an 1852 three-arched triumphal structure; Triumphal Arch, Chișinău, an 1841 structure in Moldova; Triumphal Arch of Orange (27 BC–AD 14), the oldest surviving triple-arched Roman ...
The modern term triumphal arch derives from the notion that this form of architecture was connected to the award and commemoration of a triumph to particularly successful Roman generals, by vote of the Roman senate. The earliest arches set up to commemorate a triumph were made in the time of the Roman Republic. [9] These were called fornices (s.
They include the Arch of Triumph, Kim Il-sung Stadium, and Kaeson Revolutionary Site. At the foot of the hill is the Jonsung Revolutionary Site , which conveys the "revolutionary achievements" of President Kim Il-sung and the Hungbu Revolutionary Site which is associated with the history of leader Kim Jong-il and includes trees bearing slogans ...
The first phase of restoration of the Arch began on 12 November 2021. [16] In October 2022, the Syrian Directorate-General of Antiquities and Museums and the Institute for the History of Material Culture of Russian Academy of Sciences signed an agreement to start the second and third phase of the project for restoring Arch of Triumph. [17]
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