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13589.
Les Califes omeyyades de Damas (660 av. J.C – 750 av. J.C) se firent construire dans la steppe de magnifiques palais appelés «Châteaux du Désert » parce qu'ils se situaient sur la lisière du désert syrien, loin de la Capitale et de ses tracasseries ainsi que des regards indiscrets des habitants et où ils pouvaient s'adonner au plaisir de la ...
Tentative Lists Score 1.8371483 Date 08/1999
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Historique du Palais des Princes Evêques Le premier palais épiscopal a été construit par Notger (972-1008) en même temps que la cathédrale qui lui faisait face. Le Prince-Evêque accorde la même importance aux deux bâtiments. Le bâtiment était certainement construit en colombage, sur un niveau de pierre. Il sera détruit par un incendie en 1185. Il est ...
Tentative Lists Score 1.8350245 Date 08/2008
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International assistance requests under the World Heritage Fund are evaluated by both the World Heritage Centre and the Advisory Bodies to the World Heritage Committee, namely ICOMOS and ICCROM for cultural or mixed heritage and IUCN for natural or mixed heritage.International assistance requests for US$30,000 or less are evaluated by the World Heritage Centre only. The ...
FAQ Score 1.8100296 Date 06/2022
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On 10 November 2011 UNESCO’s General Conference adopted the Recommendation on the Historic Urban Landscape by acclamation, the first such instrument on the historic environment issued by UNESCO in 35 years. The Recommendation on the Historic Urban Landscape does not replace existing doctrines or conservation approaches; rather, it is an additional tool to integrate ...
FAQ Score 1.8100296 Date 11/2022
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Any World Heritage property that consists of two or more areas which are physically unconnected but related, for example because they belong to the same geological or geomorphologic formation, biogeographic province or ecosystem type, and which together are of OUV; such value would not necessarily exist if its component parts were considered individually (see Operational ...
FAQ Score 1.8100296 Date 11/2022
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State of Conservation or “SOC” reports are the result of the Reactive Monitoring process, which is the reporting by the Secretariat, other sectors of UNESCO and the Advisory Bodies to the Committee on the state of conservation of specific World Heritage properties that are under threat. These reports on the state of conservation of selected properties are examined each ...
FAQ Score 1.8100296 Date 11/2022
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Tunisia,Construction of dams; hunting; grazing and air pollution,In response to studies of the drying up of this wetland, the Permanent Delegation of Tunisia has written the Tunisian authorities to suggest it be inscribed on the danger list. In response, the Minister of Agriculture noted that mitigation measures to safeguard the site are underway and that it is not ...
State of Conservation Score 1.8100296 Date 11/1987
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Situated on the ancient trade route between Central Asia and northern Europe, Novgorod was Russia's first capital in the 9th century. Surrounded by churches and monasteries, it was a centre for Orthodox spirituality as well as Russian architecture. Its medieval monuments and the 14th-century frescoes of Theophanes the Greek (Andrei Rublev's teacher) illustrate the ...
World Heritage Properties Score 1.8032026 Date 12/1992
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Cet ensemble de trois sites comprend : Le Tata, palais fortifié du Sultan Sénoussi.Les grottes de Kaga-Kpoungouvou.La ville de Ndélé. L'ensemble de ces biens représente l'histoire associée au plein épanouissement du Sultanat du Dar-El-Kouti vers la fin du XVIIIème et début du XIXème. La Centrafrique a longtemps été un point de passage pour les migrations qui ont ...
Tentative Lists Score 1.7993566 Date 11/2006
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La grotte de Matupi est un des sites archéologiques majeurs de l'Afrique subsaharienne. Il a livré une séquence d'occupation s'étendant sur plus de 40.000 ans. Les niveaux les plus profonds sont datés entre 32.000 et > 40.700 avant le présent. Ils ont fourni une des plus vieilles industries microlithiques du monde. Les niveaux inférieurs (entre c. 140-185 cm) sont ...
Tentative Lists Score 1.7942233 Date 11/1997
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The Succulent Karoo biome is an internationally recognized biodiversity hotspot, and is the world's only arid hotspot. The 116 000 km2 biome extends from the south-west through the north-western areas of South Africa and into southern Namibia. The biome is home to 6 356 plant species, 40% of which are endemic and 936 (17%) of which are listed in the Red Data Book. In ...
Tentative Lists Score 1.7942233 Date 03/2016
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The World Heritage Committee consists of representatives from 21 of the States Parties to the Convention for the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage, elected by the General Assembly of States Parties to the Convention. The current composition of the Committee is: Argentina, Benin, Chile, China (Chair), Colombia, Egypt, India, Japan, Kuwait, Lebanon, ...
News Score 1.7942233 Date 04/2004
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The First South-East Europe World Heritage Youth Forum is currently underway with the theme 'World Heritage education: Networking for a Better Common Future'. It was opened on Sunday 22 May in Porec, Croatia by UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova with the Croatian Minister of Culture, Jasen Mesić and the State Secretary of the Ministry of Culture of Slovenia, ...
News Score 1.7942233 Date 05/2011
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From 7 to 9 November 2011, experts from the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) undertook an advisory mission to examine development projects affecting the World Heritage site "Cathedral, Alcázar and Archivo de Indias in Sevilla", inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage List in 1987. At its three last sessions, the World Heritage Committee discussed ...
News Score 1.7942233 Date 01/2012
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UNESCO’s World Heritage Centre welcomes the U.K. government's decision to reject the planning permission for the Navitus Bay Wind Park proposal offshore from the World Heritage property Dorset and East Devon Coast, often referred to as Jurassic Coast. This decision followed a detailed application review process which took into consideration the importance of the World ...
News Score 1.7942233 Date 10/2015
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Zimbabwe,Poaching,IUCN reported to the 13th Session of the Bureau that Mobil Oil was about to begin an oil exploration programme in the Zambesi valley including the above reserve. On request of the Zimbabwe Ministry of Finance, Economic Planning and Development, IUCN prepared environmental impact guidelines to be built into the contract between Mobil and the Government. ...
State of Conservation Score 1.7942233 Date 10/1989
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Democratic Republic of the Congo, Political uncertainties, New settlements in the Park, Gold mining, Livestock grazing, Destruction of vegetation, Poaching, Agricultural encroachment, Over-exploitation of fish populations, Lack of financial resources ,Virunga National Park was included on the List of World Heritage in Danger in December 1994, due to the tragic events in ...
State of Conservation Score 1.7942233 Date 10/1996
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Ecuador, Fire (issue resolved); Limited protected area; Over fishing; Tourist pressure; Lack of financial resources ,The Committee, at its last session in Merida, Mexico, decided to "include the Galápagos National Park in the List of World Heritage in Danger, effective 15 November 1997, unless a substantive written reply by Ecuador is received by 1st May 1997, and the ...
State of Conservation Score 1.7942233 Date 09/1997
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Gyeongju, Republic of Korea,From 24 to 26 September 2014, the OWHC’s Regional Secretariat for Asia-Pacific will hold its first regional conference in the city of Gyeongju, Republic of Korea. The conference is organized in close cooperation with the Gyeongju Municipal Government, the UNESCO Bangkok Office, the Korean National Commission for UNESCO, the Cultural Heritage ...
Events Score 1.7942233 Date 09/2014
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This partnership builds on state-of-the-art digital visual and sound processing technologies for the production of short digital TV documentaries on Heritage using Hi-Vision technology as well as quality 3-D moving images and reconstruction images related to heritage. These videos have been edited and adapted especially by UNESCO for online access. They are part of the NHK ...
Activities Score 1.7942233 Date 06/2022
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The Task Force on the Implementation of the World Heritage Convention was established by the 23rd session of the World Heritage Committee in Marrakesh, Morocco, 29 November - 4 December 1999. The Committee determined that the Task force, chaired by Canada, would include Australia, Belgium, Hungary, Morocco, Mexico, South Africa, Thailand, and the advisory bodies (ICOMOS, ...
Activities Score 1.7942233 Date 06/2022
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Le territoire bissau-guinéen est divisé en deux zones principales: la zone continentale et la zone insulaire, communément appelée l'Archipel des Bijagós, constituée par 88 îles et îlots parmi lesquels 23 sont habités. C'est la zone la plus riche en Guinée-Bissau, en termes de la biodiversité.L'Archipel des Bolama-Bijagos occupe une superficie totale de plus de ...
Tentative Lists Score 1.7911677 Date 10/2006
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Following the launching in December 2006 of the Patrimonito Storyboard Competition organized by the World Heritage Centre in coordination with the UNESCO Associated Schools, the contest results are now available. Four hundred students from the Republic of Congo, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda and Uganda registered to take part in the Competition. They submitted ...
Activities Score 1.7864232 Date 03/2022
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Countries (or States Parties) submit nomination proposals to the World Heritage Committee. If the Committee determines, based on the recommendations of its Advisory Bodies (ICOMOS and IUCN), that the nomination meets at least one of the necessary criteria, then the property proposed by the State Party is inscribed on the World Heritage List. In general, the Committee adds ...
FAQ Score 1.7831241 Date 12/2018
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Disaster risk management is the application of disaster risk reduction policies and strategies to prevent new disaster risk, reduce existing disaster risk and manage residual risk, contributing to the strengthening of resilience and reduction of disaster losses. Annotation: Disaster risk management actions can be distinguished between prospective disaster risk management, ...
FAQ Score 1.7831241 Date 11/2022
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“Cultural diversity” refers to the manifold ways in which the cultures of groups and societies find expression. These expressions are passed on within and among groups and societies. Cultural diversity is made manifest not only through the varied ways in which the cultural heritage of humanity is expressed, augmented and transmitted through the variety of cultural ...
FAQ Score 1.7831241 Date 11/2022
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Ecosystem services are processes by which the environment produces benefits useful to people, akin to economic services. They include: Provision of clean water and air; Pollination of crops; Mitigation of environmental hazards; Pest and disease control; Carbon sequestration. Accounting for the way in which ecosystems provide economic goods is an increasingly popular area ...
FAQ Score 1.7831241 Date 11/2022
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The vision of the UNESCO Memory of the World Programme is that the world's documentary heritage belongs to all, should be fully preserved and protected for all and, with due recognition of cultural mores and practicalities, should be permanently accessible to all without hindrance. The mission of the Memory of the World Programme is: To facilitate preservation, by the ...
FAQ Score 1.7831241 Date 11/2022
13643.
Située au pied d'une colline dans un paysage de plaine, la cour Royale de Tiébélé forme un espace circulaire irrégulier d'environ 1,2 ha. On y accède au sud-ouest par l'entrée principale. On distingue plusieurs éléments caractéristiques: le Pourou, butte sacrée où sont enterrés les placentas des membres de la famille, le nabarê, l’autel de l’ancêtre, le ...
Tentative Lists Score 1.7825485 Date 01/2012
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Les îles Ehotilé ont été érigées en Parc National par le décret N074-1 79 du 25 avril 1974 sur l'initiative des Communautés locales (cas unique en Côte d'lvoire et même en Afrique de l'Ouest).Milieu naturelLe Parc National des Iles Ehotilé est un ensemble de 6 îles (Assokomonobaha, Balouaté, Meha, Nyamouan, Elouamin et I'île sacrée Bosson Assoun) situées en ...
Tentative Lists Score 1.7825485 Date 03/2006
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L'emplacement choisi pour Dura Europos tient à sa position stratégique au point où la route qui va d'Antioche, la capitale méditerranéenne de l'empire séleucide, à Séleucie-du-Tigre, la capitale babylonienne, descend du plateau pour longer l'Euphrate. L'intérêt d'une telle position n'avait pas échappé aux maîtres de la région dans les périodes antérieures à la ...
Tentative Lists Score 1.7825485 Date 08/1999
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L'antique cité d'origine phénicienne (Antaradus) enlevée aux Musulmans par les Croisés garde des vestiges vivants de ce passage qui a duré deux siècles (fin Xle fin Xllle siècle) et qui l'a entièrement façonnée, la transformant en un bastion des Frans parmi les plus stratégiques du bord de la Méditerranée d'où, grâce à son port, elle assurait la liaison ...
Tentative Lists Score 1.7825485 Date 08/1999
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L’espace appelé Gourma au Mali concerne trois régions (Mopti,Tombouctou et de Gao). La zone s’étend sur 83 millions d’hectares (environ 83.000 km²), à l’Est du Mali, entre le fleuve Niger et la frontière du Burkina Faso. Le Gourma est limité au Nord et à l’Est par le fleuve Niger, à l’ouest et au sud par les collines et falaises du pays Dogon. Le Gourma est une vaste zone ...
Tentative Lists Score 1.7638752 Date 08/2017
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The UNESCO Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage, adopted in 2001, is intended to enable States to better protect their submerged cultural heritage. The main principles laid out in the Convention are the obligation to preserve underwater cultural heritage, the prioritization of in-situ preservation and the stipulation that underwater cultural ...
FAQ Score 1.7570066 Date 11/2022
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Iran (Islamic Republic of) Iran (République islamique d') Irán (República Islámica del) Иран (Исламская Республика) إيران (جمهورية - الإسلامية) 伊朗(伊斯兰共和国) The Islamic Republic of Iran
States Parties Score 1.7570066 Date 02/1975
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Les Mégalithes de Djohong sont situés à 80 km de Meiganga dans le Département du Mbéré. « Tazunu » est l’appelation locale de ces mégalithes. Dans le cas présent, il désigne aussi le village où les mégalithes sont situés. Le monument mégalithique est constitué de deux pièces dont l’une reste toujours plantée au sol et l’autre en position renversée et doublée. La première ...
Tentative Lists Score 1.7541345 Date 02/2018
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Mexico,Urban development pressures in the areas surrounding the property,The State Party submitted a report on the state of conservation of the property on 7 February 2012. The report was compiled by the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) and includes information on the process of assessment of the physical state of conservation of the inscribed property ...
State of Conservation Score 1.7541345 Date 05/2012
13663.
Lake Titicaca is the biggest aquatic mass within the Southern Continent. It is also the highest navigable lake in the world. It has a surface of 8.400 km2, of which 3,690 km2 are on Bolivian territory. Its altitude is 3,810 meters above sea level. Several rivers, primarily born on the mountain range, nourish the lake. On the other hand, only one river drains the waters ...
Tentative Lists Score 1.7421091 Date 01/2003
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 Cette zone d'environ 20 000 hectares comprend la Réserve Naturelle de Camargue ainsi que d'autres aires protégées adjacentes. Ce delta, ensemble naturel et artificiel de zones humides, de marais, de prairies et de landes, continue d'évoluer du fait des sédiments en provenance des Alpes, transportés jusqu'en Camargue par le Rhône. Grâce à une combinaison ...
Tentative Lists Score 1.7421091 Date 01/2002
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The Mbaracaya Forest Nature Reserve (MFNR) consists of 64,405.7 hectares, located in the eastern region of Paraguay near the Brazilian border, an area with small landholdings and numerous cattle rancHng establishments in the Mbaracaya Range (Karapa). In the east there are various properties, ranches and two indigenous communities of different ethnic partialities, and in ...
Tentative Lists Score 1.7421091 Date 12/2003
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The Repetek State Biosphere Reserve is situated in the south-eastern Karakum desert, near the Repetek railway station. Its typical landscape is arid, with large, hummocky, ridged, fixed sand dunes in some areas, large areas of sand dune and valley-like depressions. The ridges are 15-20m in height and 8-10km in length. The depressions, which lie adjacent to the slopes of ...
Tentative Lists Score 1.7421091 Date 03/2009
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The Bagçesaray Palace of the Crimean Khans is a compact architectural ensemble consisting of 17 buildings and 9 inner closed courtyards. The total area of the ensemble is about 500000 square meters (including 7190 m of the built-up area). The Bagçesaray Palace of the Crimean Khans was built in the third-fourth decades of the 16 century. The oldest dated construction of ...
Tentative Lists Score 1.7421091 Date 07/2003
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Rabati Malik Caravanserai is constructed according to the order of Karakhanid Shams-al-Mulk Nasr, son of Tamgachkhan Ibragim ruled in Samarkand from 1068 until 1080. Only its portal has reached until now from the old huge caravanserai on the surface of the ground. The portal of caravanserai - one of the most ancient place in the territory of the Central Asia portals - ...
Tentative Lists Score 1.7421091 Date 01/2008
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The International Workshop and Expert Meeting "Starlight Reserves and World Heritage - scientific cultural and environmental values", was held in Fuerteventura, Spain, from 10-11 March 2009. It was attended by 32 participants and experts from 10 countries including representatives of private organizations, companies, the tourism industry, NGOs, scientific bodies ...
News Score 1.7421091 Date 03/2009
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UNESCO expresses its deep regret at the passing of Abdoul Aziz Guisse, Director of Cultural Heritage of Senegal, in Dakar on 3 February 2022.    "I would like to pay tribute to the memory of Abdoul Aziz Guisse and to the immense contribution he made to the safeguarding of african heritage," said Ernesto Ottone R., UNESCO's Assistant Director-General for Culture. "His ...
News Score 1.7421091 Date 02/2022
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Germany,Floods. Additional Details: Infrastructure development pressure ,Concerning the floods, the requested update report on the rehabilitation works in the World Heritage property had not been received by 1 February 2004. By letter of 13 April 2004, the German authorities informed the Centre that the situation at the site is basically unchanged since the last ...
State of Conservation Score 1.7421091 Date 06/2004
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Democratic Republic of the Congo,,By letter of 21 February 1984, the State Commissioner for Environment, Nature Conservation and Tourism of Zaire requested the Director-General of Unesco to consider the possibility of placing Garamba National Park on the List of World Heritage in Danger due to the critical situation of its white rhinoceros population. The ...
State of Conservation Score 1.7421091 Date 10/1984
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Riomaggiore, Cinque Terre National Park (Italy),1st Training Workshop on "Conserving World Heritage Natural Sites and Cultural Landscapes in South-Eastern Europe - Managing cultural landscapes"Following the launch of the joint project on World Heritage natural sites and cultural landscapes in South-Eastern Europe at the symposium held from 16-18 October 2006 in Osnabruck, ...
Events Score 1.7421091 Date 04/2007
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Ghent and Ostend, Belgium,CLIMATES OF HERITAGE CONSERVATION: Responding to the Challenge of Global Climate Change throughPublic Engagement and Social Innovation This three-day colloquium will focus on the immediate and obvious significance of the impacts of global climate change to the Low Countries, namely rising sea levels and increased river flooding. Papers ...
Events Score 1.7421091 Date 03/2009
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