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The property within boundaries of District of Koycegiz is located in the face of Dalyan City and on the right shores of Dalyan Stream (Calbis) which connect Koycegiz Lake to Mediterranean. It was the capital of the ‘Kaunos Region’ between the Caria and Lycia until the beginning of the 4th BC. The existence of Kaunos had known by the scholars but its location ...
Tentative Lists Score 8.199664 Date 04/2014
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The Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve and Haida Heritage Site covers about 15 percent of the Queen Charlotte Islands, an archipelago 80 km off the northwest coast of mainland British Columbia that separates Hecate Strait from the Pacific Ocean. The size of the terrestrial area, which consists of 138 islands, is 1 495 km2, with a surrounding marine conservation area ...
Tentative Lists Score 6.7353387 Date 01/2004
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The Sān are considered to be the first inhabitants of southern Africa comprising present-day Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland and Zimbabwe. The prehistoric Sān population was comprised exclusively of hunter-gatherers before the immigration of many different Bantu peoples several thousands of years ago that introduced domesticated animals and ...
Tentative Lists Score 6.636465 Date 03/2016
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Sinja Valley contains the archaeological evidence of the capital city of the well organized and influential Western Malla or Khasa Kingdom of the 12th and 14th Century. After the 14th Century the Khasa Kingdom split into the Baise or Twenty-Two Kingdoms which existed until the unification of Nepal in the late 18th Century. Excavations have revealed the remains of old ...
Tentative Lists Score 6.0634503 Date 01/2008
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Lake Titicaca is the largest freshwater lake in South America and the highest of the world's large lakes. Titicaca is one of less than twenty ancient lakes on earth, and is thought to be three million years old. Lake Titicaca sits 3 810 m above sea level and is situated between Peru to the west and Bolivia to the east. Peruvian part is located in Puno department, in Puno ...
Tentative Lists Score 5.897412 Date 06/2005
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At the end of the 19th Century, the difficult conditions, persecutions, pogroms and restrictive laws against Jewish communities in the Russian Empire led to emigration to seek freedom to practice their religion, language and social traditions. Argentina offered those conditions and thousands of Jews emigrated to that country. From 1891 on, the Jewish Colonization ...
Tentative Lists Score 5.882289 Date 06/2015
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The synagogue was a revolutionary institution from its inception, embodying dramatic religious and social changes. It appears to have been a uniquely Jewish creation that influenced the subsequent development of the Christian church and the Muslim mosque. As its Greek name - synagogue - "place of assembly" - attests, it functioned as a community center, housing the ...
Tentative Lists Score 5.8576508 Date 06/2000
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Izamal is known as the "Hill City" because it has in its urban zone, several archaeological vestiges located on the hill sides. The extension of the remains of pre Hispanic constructions as estimated could occupy an area of 10 kilometers square. Today city of Izamal was a remarkable site of the ancient Mayan civilization. It was probably the largest large city of plains of ...
Tentative Lists Score 5.8205976 Date 10/2008
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The property is a mixed cultural and natural site covering the middle and upper reaches of the Sepik River basin including slopes of the Central Range and potentially the Torricelli and Prince Alexander mountains.    The Sepik River at 1126 km in length and covering an area of 7.7 million hectares is one of the world's greatest river systems.  It is the largest ...
Tentative Lists Score 5.7279525 Date 06/2006
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The Ciudad Universitaria - University City of Bogotá is currently located in the central area of Colombia's capital, but by 1936 - when it was created - the land upon which it was erected corresponded on the western side of the small city, which had seen until then a linear development between north and south. For this reason, the appearance of the University City ...
Tentative Lists Score 5.6751275 Date 09/2012
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Serial nomination including: Blombos (BBC), Border Cave (BC), Diepkloof (DKF), Klasies River (KR), Pinnacle Point (PP), Sibudu Cave (SC) and comparable sites relating to the emergence of modern humans.Homo sapiens, ancestors of all modern people, emerged about 200 000 years ago. Debates around the origin of these anatomically modern humans and the modernity of their ...
Tentative Lists Score 5.6404514 Date 04/2015
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The internationally recognized geomorphic term “Yardang” was originated from Uygur language which means small hill with steep escarpments, and proposed by Swedish explorer Sven Hedin as a formal technical expression when he was exploring the Lop Nor region of Northwest China in the early 20th century. It represents the ridge-like, castle-like, or hill-like erosional ...
Tentative Lists Score 5.6174917 Date 01/2015
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Village of Abyaneh is one of the Iranian historical villages that contains some works from Sassanid period to the present time. It owns several unequal attributions just like the unique temple of "Herpak", a Chief mosque with a unique mihrab from Seljukian period, houses harmonious with climate and mountainous land. One can see Sassanid Pahlavic words in daily ...
Tentative Lists Score 5.5961237 Date 09/2007
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No. Name of the component part Latitude and Longitude Latitude Longitude 01 Ajinatepa Buddhist monastery 37°47'52.70"С 68°51'16.00"В 02a Kalai Hulbuk 37°46'39.70"С 69°33'24.35"В 02b Shahristoni Hulbuk 37°47'0.50"С 69°33'37.47"В 02c Makbarai Shohoni ...
Tentative Lists Score 5.5611935 Date 12/2023
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The internationally accepted landform Yardang has origin in Uygur language, Xinjiang, China; it was Sven Hedin who made it a formal technical expression in the early 20th century; it means a weathing landform, mainly ridge-like, castle-like or hill-like in extremely arid region and some basins in arid region with a considerable scale, where the not totally solidified ...
Tentative Lists Score 5.396575 Date 01/2015
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The serial transnational nomination “Memorials to the Heroes of the Great Patriotic War: Brest Fortress and Mamayev Kurgan” (Republic of Belarus, Russian Federation) includes two large-scale memorial complexes associated with the beginning and the turning point of military operations on the Eastern Front of the World War II. World War II is the most significant event of ...
Tentative Lists Score 5.29312 Date 05/2024
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The serial transnational nomination “Memorials to the Heroes of the Great Patriotic War: Brest Fortress and Mamayev Kurgan” (Republic of Belarus, Russian Federation) includes two large-scale memorial complexes associated with the beginning and the turning point of military operations on the Eastern Front of the World War II. World War II is the most significant event of ...
Tentative Lists Score 5.29312 Date 05/2024
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The Huicholes, heirs of Mesoamerican societies, make up one of the native groups that have survived with great vitality in America thanks to the rough topography of their territories, to its decentralized political organization and to their ability to adapt to the historical surroundings reflected by their active participation in the history of the West of Mexico. ...
Tentative Lists Score 5.1926503 Date 06/2004
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The history of Bratislava Judaism is very long, but mentions of the old Jewish cemetery we can date from 1640 only. In this year the Pálffy family rented this ground to the Jewish religious community. When the Chevra kadish was formed, the ground came into possession of the community (1694), the oldest tombstone is connected with the year 1670. The cemetery served until ...
Tentative Lists Score 5.0133324 Date 12/2002
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The Pharmaceutical Museum in Matanzas preserves and treasures Dr. Ernesto Triolet’s French Drugstore, founded on the 1st of January 1882 at Arms Square, currently Place of Liberty, in Matanzas. The drugstore was founded by pharmacists Don Juan Fermín de Figueroa, Cuban, and French Ernesto Triolet Lelievre. The pharmacy worked as such until January 16, 1964, and in May it ...
Tentative Lists Score 4.8753943 Date 12/2024
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