Mausoleum of Maussollos
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The Mausoleum of Maussollos, the Persian satrap of Caria (351 BC, at Halicarnassus (present Budrum), Turkey), was considered one of the Seven Wonders of the World.
The word mausoleum came to be used generically for any grand tomb.
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