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Victory Arch is unveiled

1986 CE · Iraq, Asia · Culture

The Victory Arch, officially known as the Swords of Qādisīyah, and popularly called the Hands of Victory or the Crossed Swords, are a pair of triumphal arches in central Baghdad, Iraq. Each arch consists of a pair of outstretched hands holding crossed swords.

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