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mausoleum

Mausolus, a Carian ruler under the Persian Empire, was buried at Halicarnassus in a tomb so grand that it counted among the Seven Wonders of the World. Its Greek name, Mausōleîon, passed through Latin to mean any monumental tomb in nearly every European language — in Russian, above all Lenin's.

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377 BCEAncient Greek

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