Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

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cells: Argentina
Metropolitan Cathedral in Buenos Aires
Tomb of the Unknown Soldier of the Independence
cells: Australia
Australian War Memorial in Canberra
The tomb of the Unknown Australian Soldier at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra.
cells: Austria
Heldenplatz in Vienna
[citation needed]
cells: Bangladesh
Jatiyo Smriti Soudho in Savar Upazila
Jatiyo Sriti Shoudho (Bengali: জাতীয় স্মৃতি সৌধ Jatio Sriti Shoudho) or National Martyrs' Memorial is the national monument of Bangladesh is the symbol in the memory of the valour and the sacrifice of all those who gave their lives in the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971, many of whom were buried in mass graves in that park.The monument is located in Savar, about 35 km north-west of the capital, Dhaka. It was designed by Syed Mainul Hossain.
cells: Shikha Onirban or 'Eternal Flame' in Dhaka
Shikha Onirban was built to commemorate the valour and the sacrifices of Bangladesh Armed Forces Soldiers died In the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971.
cells: Belgium
Congress Column in Brussels
The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the base of the location.
cells: Bolivia
Monumento al Soldado Desconocido in La Paz
The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, center piece of the location.[citation needed]
cells: Brazil
Monument to the dead of World War II, Flamengo Park in Rio de Janeiro.
The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on the monument's platform.
cells: Brazilian Monument and Tomb of the Unknown Soldier of World War II, near Pistoia, Italy.
Votive Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, with monument pavilion.
cells: Bulgaria
Monument to the Unknown Soldier in Sofia
cells: Monument to the Unknown Soldier in Haskovo.[citation needed]
cells: Canada
Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the National War Memorial, Confederation Square in Ottawa
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cells: Chile
General Manuel Baquedano Square in Santiago
Contains the remains of a soldier who died in 1881 during the War of the Pacific.[citation needed]
cells: Plaza de la Ciudadanía (Citizenship Square), Santiago
Contains the remains of a soldier found in Perú.[citation needed] Died in 1881 during the War of the Pacific.
cells: Cripta del Morro de Arica (Rock of Arica Crypt), Arica
Contains the remains of a soldier found in 1998.[citation needed] Died during the War of the Pacific.
cells: Unknown Sailor Monument
A monument built in honor to the sailors that fought and died in the Battle of Iquique, a naval battle off the coast of Chile.
cells: Czech Republic
National Monument on Vítkov Hill in Prague
contains remains of an unknown Czech soldier fallen at the Battle of Zborov as well as an unknown Czechoslovak soldier fallen at the Battle of Dukla (1944), a part of a larger memorial to all Czechoslovak soldiers.
cells: Dominican Republic
Flag Square of Santo Domingo
The Arc of the Square contains the tomb of the soldier who died for the freedom of the Dominicans in the Dominican War of Independence.
cells: Egypt
Unknown Soldier Memorial in Cairo
Also includes the tomb of President Anwar Sadat.
cells: Alexandria Naval Unknown Soldier Memorial
cells: Estonia
Defence Forces Cemetery in Tallinn
cells: Finland
Hietaniemi cemetery in Helsinki
In the centre of the military cemetery are the tombs of the unknown soldier and Marshal Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim.
cells: France
Tomb of the Unknown Soldier beneath the Arc de Triomphe de l'Étoile in Paris
cells: Gambia
Tomb of the Unknown Soldier behind Arch 22 in Banjul
cells: Germany
Unter den Linden, Berlin
Within a 19th-century guardhouse, the Neue Wache.
cells: Greece
Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on Syntagma Square in Athens
Two quotations by Thucydides, from Pericles' Funeral Oration,[5][6] are inscribed on the retaining wall: Μία κλίνη κενὴ φέρεται ἐστρωμένη τῶν ἀφανῶν ("... and one bed is carried empty, made for the unknown ones"), and Ἀνδρῶν ἐπιφανῶν πᾶσα γῆ τάφος ("The whole earth is the burial ground of famous men"). The inscriptions flank a central sculpture in low relief, depicting a dying hoplite. The monument is guarded round the clock by the Evzones of the Presidential Guard.
cells: Hungary
Heroes' Square in Budapest
cells: India
Amar Jawan Jyoti, New Delhi
Burning in a shrine under the arch of India Gate since 1971 is the Amar Jawan Jyoti (the flame of the immortal soldier) which marks the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. The shrine itself is a black marble cenotaph with a rifle placed on its barrel, crested by a soldier's helmet. Each face of the cenotaph has inscribed in gold the words "Amar Jawan" (Immortal Warrior) in Hindi (Devanagri script). The Prime Minister of India pays homage to the country's fallen soldiers along with the Chiefs of Staff of each arm of the Armed Forces on each Republic Day of India.
cells: Indonesia
The Pandu war cemetery at Bandung
The Field of Honor is a memorial to the unknown soldier. There is also the Tomb of the Unknown (Dutch) Sailor in Kembang Kuning war cemetery in Surabaya.[7]
cells: Iran
Chizar, Tehran
In Iran, unknown soldiers are buried in public places. Chizar is the largest of all.
cells: Behesht Zahra, Tehran
cells: Iraq
The Monument to the Unknown Soldier, Baghdad
cells: Israel
Garden of the Missing in Action in Mount Herzl, Jerusalem
Initially called the "Unknown Soldier Monument", the garden commemorates IDF soldiers whose burial place is unknown. A National Memorial Hall featuring a new memorial to the Unknown Soldier is scheduled to open nearby in 2015.
cells: Italy
Piazza Venezia in Rome
The Tomb of the Milite Ignoto in the Altare della Patria (Vittoriano).
cells: Japan
Chidorigafuchi National Cemetery in Tokyo
cells: Ryozen Kannon in Kyoto
cells: Tomb of the Unknown Soldier of the World in Ogose, Saitama
cells: Dai Heiwa Kinen Tō in Tondabayashi, Osaka
cells: Lebanon
Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Lebanon, Beirut, Mathaf
The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Lebanon represents the forming and independence of the Lebanese Armed Forces from the French Army in 1943.[8] The tomb also commemorates soldiers of the Legion of Orient[9] and the Army of the Levant during the French Mandate of Lebanon from 1920 to 1943.[8] The cenotaph in the middle includes a Cedrus libani tree surrounded by a laurel; the main symbol of Roman Legions. Around the cedar tree and laurel reads in Arabic : "Glory and Immortality for our Martyred Heroes". Behind the cenotaph are original Roman Columns.
cells: Lithuania
Vienybės Square in Kaunas
Tomb of Nežinomas kareivis, with remains of soldier who died in fights against Bolsheviks in 1919.
cells: Malaysia
National Monument in Kuala Lumpur
Completed in 1966 to commemorate combatants who fought against Japanese occupation of pre-independence Malaysia in World War II and the Malayan Races Liberation Army insurgency during the Malayan Emergency. Also includes a pre-independence cenotaph, which was shifted from its original location closer to the old town of Kuala Lumpur, commemorating the war dead of World War I, World War II and the Malayan Emergency.
cells: Namibia
Heroes' Acre in Windhoek
The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier contains soil from Cassinga and Oshatotwa from the Namibian War of Independence.
cells: New Zealand
Tomb of the Unknown Warrior, National War Memorial in Wellington
cells: Peru
Plaza Bolivar in Lima
Contains the remains of a soldier who died in 1881 during the War of the Pacific.
cells: Philippines
Heroes' Cemetery in Taguig
Contains the remains of Filipino soldiers who have joined the military and served on the Philippine Revolution, Philippine–American War and World War II.
cells: Poland
Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Marshall Józef Piłsudski Square in Warsaw
Constructed as the arcade of Saxon Palace, which was destroyed by the Nazis in 1944. Contains the remains of a soldier who died between 1918 and 1920.
cells: Portugal
Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in the Batalha Monastery
cells: Romania
Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Carol Park in Bucharest
cells: Russia
Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Alexander Garden in Moscow
cells: Serbia
Monument to the Unknown Hero on Mt. Avala near Belgrade
Memorial was built on the place where an unknown Serbian World War I soldier was buried.
cells: Slovenia
Monument to the Unknown French Soldier, French Revolution Square in Ljubljana
cells: Somalia
Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Mogadishu
A monument erected in honour of the Somali men and women who died in defense of the Somali Republic. It's popularly known as Daljirka Dahsoon, and it is an important landmark in Mogadishu.
cells: Spain
Monumento a los Caídos por España, Plaza de la Lealtad in Madrid
Popularly known as the Obelisco ("Obelisk"), it is built on the same place where General Joachim Murat ordered the execution of numerous Spaniards after the Dos de Mayo Uprising of 1808. Originally inaugurated on May 2, 1840, it was re-inaugurated on November 22, 1985, by Juan Carlos I of Spain as a remembrance to all those who gave their life for Spain. An eternal flame fuelled by gas has been constantly burning on the front of the monument.
cells: Fossar de les Moreres, in Barcelona
The Fossar de les Moreres is a memorial plaza in Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain), adjacent to the basilica of Santa Maria del Mar. The plaza was built over a cemetery where defenders of the city were buried following the Siege of Barcelona at the end of the War of the Spanish Succession in 1714. The plaza retains its everyday use as a public space, but also prominently features a memorial to the fallen Catalans of the war, with a torch of eternal flame and a heroic poem by Frederic Soler, "El Fossar de les Moreres".
cells: Syria
Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Damascus
cells: Turkey
Çanakkale Martyrs' Memorial on Gallipoli
Erected for the unknown martyrs of the Çanakkale Front, which was the arena for the Battle of Gallipoli during World War I. Opened on 20 August 1960. Another monument[which?] at the same site is for the foreign soldiers (mostly[citation needed] Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) lost in the same clash.
cells: Ukraine
Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Dnieper Park in Kiev[citation needed]
cells: Monument to the Unknown Sailor, Shevchenko Park in Odessa
cells: United Kingdom
Tomb of the Unknown Warrior, Westminster Abbey in London
cells: United States
Tomb of the Unknowns, Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia
The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery stands atop a hill overlooking Washington, D.C.. On March 4, 1921,[citation needed] Congress approved the burial of an unidentified American soldier from World War I in the plaza of the new Memorial Amphitheater. The white marble sarcophagus has a flat-faced form and is relieved at the corners and along the sides by neo-classic pilasters, or columns, set into the surface. Sculpted into the east panel which faces Washington, D.C., are three Greek figures representing Peace, Victory, and Valor. The six wreaths, three sculpted on each side, represent the six major campaigns of World War I. Inscribed on the back of the Tomb are the words: Here rests in honored glory an American soldier known but to God The Tomb sarcophagus was placed above the grave of the Unknown Soldier of World War I. West of the World War I Unknown are the crypts of unknowns from World War II and Korea, plus one empty crypt honoring missing service members from all conflicts. Those three graves are marked with white marble slabs flush with the plaza. The empty crypt originally held the remains of an unknown from the Vietnam War, but its occupant was identified in 1998 and his remains returned to his family for burial in St. Louis.
cells: Tomb of the Unknown Revolutionary War Soldier, Washington Square in Philadelphia
cells: Tomb of the Unknown Soldier of the American Revolution
cells: Civil War Unknowns Monument, Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia
Contains the remains of 2,211 unknown Union and Confederate soldiers from Civil War battlefields.
cells: Tomb of the Unknown Confederate Soldier at Beauvoir in Biloxi, Mississippi
cells: Venezuela
Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on Carabobo Field, Carabobo
Contains the remains of a Venezuelan soldier who died in 1824 during the Battle of Ayacucho.
cells: Zimbabwe
Statue of the Unknown Soldier at the National Heroes Acre, Harare

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originalText: it has served as indias tomb of the unknown soldier
answer: answerTexts: Amar Jawan Jyoti