Book burnings

Persepolis was the ceremonial capital of the Achaemenid Empire (). It is situated in the plains of Marvdasht, encircled by the southern Zagros Mountains, Fars province of Iran. It is one of the key Iranian cultural heritage sites and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Ctesiphon ( ; , Tyspwn or Tysfwn; ; , ; ) was an ancient city in modern Iraq, on the eastern bank of the Tigris, about 35 kilometres (22 mi) southeast of Baghdad. Ctesiphon served as a royal capital of the Iranian empires for over eight hundred years, in the Parthian and Sasanian periods. Ctesiphon was the administrative capital of the Sasanian Empire from 226 to 637 (when it was conquered by the Arabs), or until the conclusion of the Muslim conquest of Persia in 651 AD.

historical event

practice of destroying, often ceremoniously, books or other written material

Croatian national poet and European humanist

Catholic cardinal (1436-1517)

campaign to burn books in Nazi Germany and Austria

event that occurred in ancient China

Itzcoatl ( , "Obsidian Serpent", ) (c. 1380–1440) was the fourth king of Tenochtitlan, and the founder of the Aztec Empire, ruling from 1427 to 1440. Under Itzcoatl the Mexica of Tenochtitlan threw off the domination of the Tepanecs and established the Triple Alliance (Aztec Empire) together with the other city-states Tetzcoco and Tlacopan.

library in Warsaw

Spanish Bishop of Yucatán (1524-1579)

freshwater loch in Lochaber, Highland, Scotland, UK, outflows at its west to the River Morar

national library

philosophical work by Maimonides (ca. 1190 CE)

Sarajevo City Hall (Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian: Gradska vijećnica Sarajevo / Градска вијећница Сарајево), known as Vijećnica (Вијећница), is located in the city of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It was designed in 1891 by the Czech architect Karel Pařík, but criticisms by the minister, Baron Béni Kállay, caused him to stop working on the project. It was initially the largest and most representative building of the Austro-Hungarian period in Sarajevo and served as the city hall.

1st-century Roman writer

Tlacaelel I (1397 – 1487) ( , "Man of Strong Emotions," from "tlācatl," person and "ēllelli," strong emotion) was the principal architect of the Aztec Triple Alliance and hence the Mexica (Aztec) empire. He was the son of Emperor Huitzilihuitl and Queen Cacamacihuatl, nephew of Emperor Itzcoatl, father of poet Macuilxochitzin, and brother of Emperors Chimalpopoca and Moctezuma I.

burning of objects

Student demonstration in 1817

Maya manuscripts

burning of Quran in Stockholm, Sweden

Disputation over the Talmud at the court of French King Louis IX (1240)

1981 event during the Sri Lankan civil war

national monument of the Czech Republic

British poet, lexicographer, political writer and memoirist

organization, part of University of Sarajevo

memorial at the Bebelplatz in Berlin, Germany

event in the New Testament

World War I destruction in Leuven

period of civil unrest

1971 book by Ariel Dorfman & Armand Mattelart

destroying of the books in chile

sikh library in Amritsar, India

American white supremacist blogger and podcast host

August 2020 riots in Sweden