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A Victory column is a monument
Monument

A monument is a type of structure either explicitly created to commemorate a person or important event or which has become important to a social group as a part of their remembrance of past events....
 in the form of a column
Column

File:National Capitol Columns - Washington, D.C..jpgA column in structural engineering is a vertical structural element that transmits, through physical compression, the weight of the structure above to other structural elements below....
, erected in memory of a victorious war
War

...
 or battle
Battle

Generally, a battle is a conceptual component in the hierarchy of combat in warfare between two or more armed forces, wherein each group will seek to defeat the others within the scope of a military campaign, and are well defined in duration, area and force commitment....
. The column stands on a base and is crowned with a victory symbol
Symbol

A symbol is something such as an entity, picture, written word, sound, or particular mark that represents something else by association, resemblance, or convention....
 in the form of a statue
Statue

A statue is a sculpture in the round representing a person or persons, an animal, or an event, normally full-length, as opposed to a Bust , and at least close to life-size, or larger....
. The statue may represent the goddess Victoria
Victoria (mythology)

In Roman mythology, Victoria was the personification/Goddess of victory. She is the Roman version of the Greek mythology Nike , and was associated with Bellona ....
, in Germany
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
, the goddess Germania, in the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 either female embodiment of the nation Liberty
Liberty (goddess)

Goddesses named for and representing the concept Liberty have existed in many cultures, including classical examples dating from the Roman Empire and some national symbols such as the British Empire "Britannia" or the Irish people "Kathleen Ni Houlihan"....
 or Columbia
Historical Columbia

Columbia is a poetry name for the United States and for the feminine symbolic national personification thereof....
, in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
, the female embodiment Britannia
Britannia

Britannia was the term originally used by the Roman Empire to refer to the island of Great Britain. The term was later used to describe a Roman province covering much of the island, apart from the area beyond the Antonine Wall belonging to the Picts in the north, which was known as Caledonia....
, an eagle
Eagle

Eagles are large bird of prey which are members of the bird family Accipitridae, and belong to several Genus which are not necessarily closely related to each other....
, or a war hero.






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A Victory column is a monument
Monument

A monument is a type of structure either explicitly created to commemorate a person or important event or which has become important to a social group as a part of their remembrance of past events....
 in the form of a column
Column

File:National Capitol Columns - Washington, D.C..jpgA column in structural engineering is a vertical structural element that transmits, through physical compression, the weight of the structure above to other structural elements below....
, erected in memory of a victorious war
War

...
 or battle
Battle

Generally, a battle is a conceptual component in the hierarchy of combat in warfare between two or more armed forces, wherein each group will seek to defeat the others within the scope of a military campaign, and are well defined in duration, area and force commitment....
. The column stands on a base and is crowned with a victory symbol
Symbol

A symbol is something such as an entity, picture, written word, sound, or particular mark that represents something else by association, resemblance, or convention....
 in the form of a statue
Statue

A statue is a sculpture in the round representing a person or persons, an animal, or an event, normally full-length, as opposed to a Bust , and at least close to life-size, or larger....
. The statue may represent the goddess Victoria
Victoria (mythology)

In Roman mythology, Victoria was the personification/Goddess of victory. She is the Roman version of the Greek mythology Nike , and was associated with Bellona ....
, in Germany
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
, the goddess Germania, in the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 either female embodiment of the nation Liberty
Liberty (goddess)

Goddesses named for and representing the concept Liberty have existed in many cultures, including classical examples dating from the Roman Empire and some national symbols such as the British Empire "Britannia" or the Irish people "Kathleen Ni Houlihan"....
 or Columbia
Historical Columbia

Columbia is a poetry name for the United States and for the feminine symbolic national personification thereof....
, in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
, the female embodiment Britannia
Britannia

Britannia was the term originally used by the Roman Empire to refer to the island of Great Britain. The term was later used to describe a Roman province covering much of the island, apart from the area beyond the Antonine Wall belonging to the Picts in the north, which was known as Caledonia....
, an eagle
Eagle

Eagles are large bird of prey which are members of the bird family Accipitridae, and belong to several Genus which are not necessarily closely related to each other....
, or a war hero.
Hakenberg Denkmal
Famous victory columns include:

  • Trajan's Column
    Trajan's Column

    Trajan's Column is a monument in Rome raised in honour of the Roman Empire emperor Trajan and constructed by the architect Apollodorus of Damascus at the order of the Roman Senate....
    , Rome, Italy
  • Column of Antoninus Pius
    Column of Antoninus Pius

    The Column of Antoninus Pius is an honorific column in Rome, devoted in 161 to the Roman emperor Antoninus Pius, in the Campus Martius, on the edge of the hill now known as Monte Citorio, and set up by his successors, the co-emperors Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus....
    , Rome, Italy
  • Column of Marcus Aurelius
    Column of Marcus Aurelius

    File:column.of.marcus.aurelius.complete.arp.jpgFile:detail.from.column.of.marcus.aurelius.arp.jpgThe Column of Marcus Aurelius, , is a Doric column, with a spiral relief, built in honour of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius and modeled on Trajan's Column....
    , Rome, Italy
  • Column of Justinian
    Column of Justinian

    The Column of Justinian was a monument triumphal column erected in Constantinople by the Byzantine emperor Justinian I in honour of his victories in 543....
    , Constantinople (modern Istanbul, Turkey)
  • Alexander Column
    Alexander Column

    The Alexander Column also known as Alexandrian Column , is the focal point of Palace Square in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The monument was erected after the Napoleon's invasion of Russia with Napoleon's France....
    , Palace Square
    Palace Square

    Palace Square , connecting Nevsky Prospekt with Palace Bridge leading to Vasilievsky Island, is the central city square of St Petersburg and of the former Russian Empire....
    , Saint Petersburg
    Saint Petersburg

    Saint Petersburg is a types of inhabited localities in Russia and a federal subjects of Russia of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea....
  • Berlin victory column
    Berlin Victory Column

    File:Reichstag_und_Siegess?ule_um_1900.jpgThe Victory Column is a famous monument in Berlin, Germany. Designed by Heinrich Strack after 1864 to commemorate the Prussian victory in the Second Schleswig War, by the time it was inaugurated on 2 September 1873, Prussia had also defeated Austria in the Austro-Prussian War and France in th...
    , Berlin
    Berlin

    Berlin is the Capital of Germany city and one of sixteen States of Germany of Germany. With a population of 3.4 million within its city limits, Berlin is the country's largest city....
    , Germany
  • Blenheim Column of Victory
    Blenheim Palace

    File:Blenheim main entrance.jpgBlenheim Palace is a large and monumental English country house situated in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, Oxfordshire, England....
    , Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, U.K..
  • Boston Soldiers and Sailors Column
    Soldiers and Sailors Monument (Boston)

    The Soldiers and Sailors Monument on Boston Common at Boston, Massachusetts, in the U.S. state of Massachusetts, was erected in memory of Massachusetts' soldiers and sailors who died in the U.S....
    , Boston,
    Boston, Massachusetts

    Boston is the State capital and largest city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is considered the economic and cultural center of the region, and is sometimes regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England." Boston city proper had a 2007 est...
     Massachusetts
    Massachusetts

    The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a U.S. state located in the New England region of the Northeastern United States United States. It borders Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north....
  • Columna de la Independencia
    El Ángel

    El ?ngel de la Independencia , most commonly known by theshortened name El ?ngel and officially known as Columna de la Independencia, is a victory column located on a roundabout over Paseo de la Reforma in downtown Mexico City....
    , Mexico City
    Mexico City

    Mexico City is the capital city of Mexico. It is the most important economic, industrial, and cultural center in the country; the most populous city with over 8,836,045 inhabitants in 2008....
    , Mexico
    Mexico

    The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federalism constitutionalism republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of Mexico....
  • Hakenberg Victory Column
    Hakenberg Victory Column

    The Hakenberg Victory Column is a 36 metre tall monument with observation deck at Hakenberg near Fehrbellin in Brandenburg, Germany.It was designed by Christian Daniel Rauch and built between 1875 and 1879....
    , Hakenberg near Fehrbellin
    Battle of Fehrbellin

    The Battle of Fehrbellin was fought on June 28, 1675 between Sweden and Brandenburg. The Swedes, under Count Waldemar von Wrangel , had invaded and occupied parts of Brandenburg from their possessions in Pomerania, but were repelled by the forces of Great Elector, the Great Elector, under Fieldmarshal Georg von Derfflinger near the town of F...
    , Germany
  • Nelson's Column
    Nelson's Column

    Nelson's Column is a monument in Trafalgar Square, London, England, United Kingdom....
    , London
    London

    London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
    , United Kingdom
    United Kingdom

    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
  • Rotonda de Hombres Ilustres
    Rotonda de Hombres Ilustres

    Rotonda de los Hombres Ilustres is a victory column in Chihuahua, Chihuahua, Mexico. It is there in honor of important men in Chihuahua's history....
    , Chihuahua, Chih.
    Chihuahua, Chihuahua

    The city of Chihuahua is the state capital of the Mexican Mexican state of Chihuahua . It has a population of about 748,551. The predominant activity is light industry, in the form of maquiladoras....
    , Mexico
    Mexico

    The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federalism constitutionalism republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of Mexico....
  • Victory column, Altona
    Altona, Hamburg

    Altona is the westernmost urban borough of the Germany States of Germany of Hamburg, on the right bank of the Elbe river. From 1640 to 1864 Altona was under the administration of the Denmark monarchy....
    , Hamburg
    Hamburg

    Hamburg is the second-largest city in Germany , and is the Largest cities of the European Union by population within city limits. The city is home to approximately 1.8 million people, while the Hamburg metropolitan area has more than 4.3 million inhabitants....
    , Germany
  • Victory column, Nürnberg, Germany
  • Victory column, Place Vendôme
    Place Vendôme

    Place Vend?me is a square in the Ier arrondissement of Paris and is located to the north of the Tuileries Gardens and east of the ?glise de la Madeleine....
    , Paris
    Paris

    Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
    , France
    France

    France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
  • War of Independence Victory Column
    Vabadussõja Võidusammas

    Design...
    : , Tallinn
    Tallinn

    Tallinn is the capital and largest city in the Republic of Estonia and of Harju County. It occupies a surface of 159.2 km? in which 397,617 inhabitants live....
    , Estonia
    Estonia

    Estonia , officially the Republic of Estonia is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by Finland across the Gulf of Finland, to the west by Sweden across the Baltic Sea, to the south by Latvia , and to the east by the Russia ....


See also

Obelisk
Obelisk

An obelisk An Obelisks is a tall, narrow, four-sided, tapering monument which ends in a pyramid like shape at the top. Ancient obelisks were made of a single piece of stone, a monolith; however, most modern obelisks are made of individual stones, and can even have interior spaces....
 Triumphal arch
Triumphal arch

A triumphal arch is a structure in the shape of a monumental arch, in theory built to celebrate a victory in war, actually used to celebrate a ruler....