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  2. Cultural depictions of lions - Wikipedia

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    Lev is a common Slavic name meaning "lion". The Latin name for Lviv is Leopolis, meaning "Lion City". The name of the city of Oran in Algeria is derived from the Berber root 'HR meaning lion, from which are also derived the names of Tahert and Souk Ahras. The name is attested in multiple Berber languages, for instance as uharu and ahra. A ...

  3. Category:Sculptures of lions - Wikipedia

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    Lion de la Feuillée (Montreal) Lion Fountain (Floriana) Lion Gate; Lion Monument; Lion of Al-lāt; Lion of Amphipolis; Lion of Babylon (statue) Lion of Belfort; Lion of Belfort (Montreal) Lion of Bienservida; Lion of Knidos; Lion of Mari; Lion with a Snake; Lion's Head (Benguet) Lion's Mound; Lions at the Dvortsovaya pier; Löwe (sculpture ...

  4. Slottslejonen - Wikipedia

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    Slottslejonen ("The Castle Lions") are two bronze sculptures of lions that stand on Lejonbacken ("the Lion Slope") below the northern facade of Stockholm Palace in Stockholm, Sweden. The lions are not completely identical or merely mirror images: they have their heads turned east and west respectively (i.e., away from each other) and both gaze ...

  5. Lions (Utah State Capitol) - Wikipedia

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    Two pairs of lion sculpture are installed at the Utah State Capitol in Salt Lake City. The original statues were created by Gavin Jack with cement in 1915, and repaired by Ralphael Plescia in 1977. Replacements were sculpture by Nick Fairplay with Italian marble. The sculpture are known as Fortitude, Honor, Integrity, and Patience. [1]

  6. Lion of Venice - Wikipedia

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    The Lion in the 1870s. The Lion seen from ground level in 2017. The Lion seen from the Doge's Palace.. The Lion of Venice is an ancient bronze sculpture of a winged lion in the Piazza San Marco of Venice, Italy, which came to symbolize the city—as well as one of its patron saints, St Mark—after its arrival there in the 12th century.

  7. Komainu - Wikipedia

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    A pair of komainu, the "a" on the right, the "um" on the left. Komainu (狛犬), often called lion-dogs in English, are statue pairs of lion-like creatures, which traditionally guard the entrance or gate of the shrine, or placed in front of or within the honden (inner sanctum) of Japanese Shinto shrines.

  8. Lion Monument - Wikipedia

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    The Lion Monument (German: Löwendenkmal), or the Lion of Lucerne, is a rock relief in Lucerne, Switzerland, designed by Bertel Thorvaldsen and hewn in 1820–21 by Lukas Ahorn. It commemorates the Swiss Guards who were killed in 1792 during the French Revolution , when revolutionaries stormed the Tuileries Palace in Paris .

  9. Prudhoe Lions - Wikipedia

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    The lions measure approximately 1.20m high and 2.20m long. They are in a relaxed, naturalistic pose, lying on their sides with their heads turned to the side and their front paws crossed, rather than in the stiffer traditional pose of the sphinx or lion, with its head facing forwards and paws extended to the front. [2]

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