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The site of the ancient town of Shahristan (Kahkakha) was a capital of ancient Ustrushana of VI-IX centuries. It consisted of the complex of castles, united in a system encircled with defensive wall with towers.
In the north part there is Sharistan proper with the palace of governor (its name is Kalai Kahkakha I). There is an old fortress in the south part (its name is ...
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1. Great Gobi Strictly Protected Area – Part A
N42 40, E95 15 N44 40, E99 30
2. Great Gobi Strictly Protected Area – Part B
N45 00, E91 00 N45 30, E93 00
3. Small Gobi Strictly Protected Area – Part B
N42 25, E107 30 N42 57, E109 30
The proposed serial property “Desert Landscapes of the Mongolian Great Gobi” ...
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ANDALUSIA 1. Mining basins on the Tinto River (37" 41'N 1 6" 35' W) and the Tharsis River (37" 36' N l 7" 07' W) (HUELVA)Minerals from the Tinto River, Tharsis and Zarza mines are mainly poly-metallic sulphurous masses composed of ferrous-copper pyrite with a high concentration of sulphur and trace amounts of gold and other ...
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Kalba, Khatm Al-Melaha
N 24º 59' 21.04" E 56º 20' 50.59"
Khorfakkan, Al-Modaify
N 25º 22' 26.96" E 56º 20' 36.09"
Khorfakkan, Luluya
N 25º 22' 48.85" E 56º 21' 22.65"
Khorfakkan, Wadi Shie
N 25º 20' 49.65" E 56º 19' 37.92"The rock art of Sharjah Emirate is the first rock art discovered in the whole of the Al-Hajar Mountains, it is a very interesting and varied thematic ...
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The Simien Mountains National Park (SMNP) is a world heritage property located some 800km north of Addis Ababa in Amhara National Regional State in the northern Ethiopia highland massif. The property area was only 136 square kilometers when it was originally established under the Negarit Gazetta No 4 of 31st October 1969, Order No 59 of 1969. More recently, the Simien ...
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Manykeni is a Zimbabwe tradition regional centre of the second millennium AD. The site comprises a stone wall enclosure and surrounding settlement situated about 52 km west of Vilanculos in south-central Mozambique.
The relevance of Manykeni is the relationship between the interior and the coast. Manyikeni was a town belonging to a state which capital was located at ...
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Located on the island of Lesvos (North Aegean Region), one of the most important natural heritage monuments in the world, the Petrified Forest of Lesvos, is a unique testament to the ecosystem that once existed in the Aegean region during the Miocene Epoch. The forest consists of hundreds of fossilized trunks, standing or downed, coniferous or fruit-bearing, which are ...
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The area of the core zone of the Hohe Tauern National Park is one of Central Europe's last post-glacial primary landscapes within the geologically unique formation of the "Tauernfenster", a huge tectonic window which gives insight to the deepest tectonic layer of the Eastern Alps. Covering an area of about 900 km2 (out of which 15% are glaciated offering a complete ...
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Iquique is a city whose development was closely linked to the sodium nitrate industry, which starts its operations with the first shipment of nitrate to Europe in 1830. The second half of the XIX century is a period of great expansion, both regarding the nitrate exploitation and the growth of the city. This was so, in spite of two earthquakes (in 1868 and 1877) and two ...
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Category: Cultural property; cultural landscape, organically evolved and continuing.
The inscription comprehends the cultural heritage of the Railway Village of Paranapiacaba, built by the English company São Paulo Railway Co., the natural heritage of Atlantic Rainforest in the stretch circumscribed by the perimeter of the Nascentes de Paranapiacaba Natural Park, in the ...
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Le groupe de monuments neolithiques des Orcades consiste en une grande tombe a chambres funeraires (Maes Howe), deux cercles de pierres ceremoniels (les pierres dressees de Stenness et le cercle de Brogar) et un foyer de peuplement (Skara Brae), ainsi que dans un certain nombre de sites funeraires, ceremoniels et d'etablissement non encore fouilles. L'ensemble constitue un ...
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The property includes:
The historic town centre of Vila Viçosa;
The hunting reserve known as Tapada Real (which extends into the municipalities of Vila Viçosa, Borba and Elvas).
A buffer zone has also been drawn up, including rural areas and recent urban areas, in order to protect the property.
Vila Viçosa is inseparably connected to the House of Braganza, the royal and ...
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Name of Property
State, Province or Region
Area (ha.)
Geographic (lat/long) or UTM Coordinates of approximate centre point
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Ruins of Ancient Vaishali
Bihar
Vaishali
2.77 (Vaishali)
7.30 (Kolhua)
25 59 N 85 6 E
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Remains of Vikramshila Ancient University
Bihar
Bhagalpur
42.35
25 19 N 87 17 E
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Buddhist remains of ...
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Sierra del Rosario Cultural Landscape
22º51´44´´ N
82º55´40´´ W
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Remains of Angerona Coffee Plantation
22º50´58´´ N
82º51´11´´ W
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Church of Nuestra Señora de Regla
22º07´53´´ N
82º20´10´´ W
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Remains of Alejandría Sugar Mill
22º49´05´´ N
82º01´16´´ W
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San Severino Castle
23º03´22´´ N
81º33´34´´ W
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Remains of ...
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Name of site
Latitude
Longitude
The 13 Stones
13˚17 ̒29˝N
61˚14 ̒52˝W
Petit Bordel
13˚16 ̒51˝N
61˚14 ̒56˝W
Barrouallie
13˚14 ̒07˝N
61˚16 ̒31˝W
Mount Wynne
13˚13 ̒08˝N
61˚16 ̒39˝W
Buccament
13˚11 ̒20˝N
61˚16 ̒00˝W
Sharpes Stream
13˚09 ̒49˝N
61˚13 ̒24˝W
Indian Bay
13˚08 ̒02˝N
61˚12 ̒29˝W
Yambou 1
13˚09 ...
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The Hell’gate National Park (HGNP) is located in Nakuru County, Kenya. Hell's Gate National Park is a park located between Lake Naivasha and the Longonot and Suswa volcanoes. It is covered by ashes from the Longonot eruption which occurred 100 years ago, the park is famous for its geothermal station, Lower Gorge, and spectacular sceneries of towering cliffs, scrub clad ...
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The Ivriz Cultural Landscape includes in situ two large Neo-Hittite rock reliefs, and a small Neo-Hittite altar, as well as a monastery dating to the Middle Byzantine Period, two caves and natural features such as springs. The site was used as a frontier marker, and as a religious and cultic area over a long span of time from the Late Bronze Age (1650-1200 BC), through ...
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Located in the heart of Tahrir Square, Cairo, the Egyptian Museum is a unique building designed to host the world's oldest collection of Pharaonic art and monuments. Built on an area of 13,600 sq. meters, with more than 100 exhibition halls, the museum is a product of a competition launched by the Egyptian Government in 1895 and thus it is considered the first national ...
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WHC-09/18.GA/INF.3B
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The spa at Luhacovice is an architecturally prominent and unique complex of buildings which, from the end of the 19th century throughout, approximately, the first three decades of the 20th century, have gradually formed the base of the present spa town situated in the east part of Moravia. The spa buildings in Luhaêovice represent, in the global contexte a unique specimen ...
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Qohaito is a plateau located at an elevation of about 2,600 m and 2,700 m above sea level. Situated between the Wadi-Haddas and the Wadi-Komaile the high mountain range gives way to a flat plateau, which extends about 16km in the south-north direction and varies between 4km and 400 meters in the shorter direction east-west. The total area is 32 square kilometers and the ...
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,[Uniquement en anglais] A meeting of site managers of World Heritage properties of religious interest was held in Kalwaria Zebrzydowska, Poland from 25 to 27 November 2019 to discuss “World Heritage – Protection, Interpretation, Use”.
World Heritage site managers meeting “World Heritage – Protection, Interpretation, Use” organized by the Bernardines Monastery in Kalwaria ...
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[Uniquement en anglais] Workshop: ICOMOS Int'l Scientific Committee on Interpretation & Presentation
,[Uniquement en anglais] Interpretation Standards at World Heritage Sites: Is There a Need for Assessment Criteria for On-Site Interpretation Programmes and Emerging Interpretive Technologies Registration required -- see belowA One-Day Roundtable DiscussionOrganized by the ICOMOS International Scientific Committee on Interpretation and Presentation (ICIP)at the UNESCO ...
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Khuduu Aral of Kherlen river and surrounding cultural landscape covers the most part of Delgerkhaan soum of Khentii province and lays between Kherlen river (from west and south), and Tsenkher river (from east) and covers over 100.000 hectare area.
The cultural landscape of Khuduu Aral draws boundary between mountainous zone and dry steppe zone. This area is very famous ...
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The Tabon Cave Complex and all of Lipuun Point is located on the west coast of Palawan. It is located on a limestone promontory which is visible from any direction for many kilometers and honeycombed with at least 200 caves and rockshelters. This point is called Lipuun by the local people but marked "Abion Head" on charts made from British surveys in 1851. The ...
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Geographical and Natural Characteristics of the Region:
Ayvalık is a province of Balıkesir, which is located in north-western Turkey, and bordered by Burhaniye in the north, Dikili in the south and Bergama in the east. Ayvalık, which is located in the western edge of an inner sea created by Anatolia and Lesbos in the northern Aegean Sea, is a unity composed of a collection ...
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Province
Name
Municipality
LAT
LONG
1
PU
Teatro comunale
Cagli
43,54573825
12,64740506
2
PU
Teatro del Trionfo
Cartoceto
43,7690791
12,88226685
3
PU
Teatro della Fortuna
Fano
43,84427989
13,01751737
4
PU
Teatro Battelli
Macerata Feltria
43,80346986
12,44203736
5
PU
Teatro ...
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,[Uniquement en anglais] The UNESCO World Heritage Centre has been working together with the Government of China on a methodological approach for the preparation of a nomination for the cultural properties along the Silk Road to the World Heritage List. Although the network passed through China, Central/Western and South Asia and beyond, China is the only country that has ...
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The Historical, Cultural and Natural Complex of Gamigaya, proposed for inclusion in the Tentative List, has concentrated all the elements and characteristic features of the surrounding historical, cultural and natural landscape. Gamigaya is the legendary name of one of the highest peaks of the Lesser Caucasus (Mount Gapydzhyg at an altitude of 3906 meters above sea level) ...
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The Pretzien Weir, a sluice gate weir completed in 1875, is located at the banks of the river Elbe in the vicinity of the city of Magdeburg. The Elbe river is one of the major streams of Central Europe. Periodic floods in this largely unregulated river frequently alter the water level at Magdeburg from 0,5 meters in times of draught to 7,5 meters in times of high flooding, ...
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Sutjeska National Park is a jewel in the Green Crown of Europe, and undoubtedly the most precious jewel, never fully explored, the largest natural reserve of this kind in Europe, real challenge for all botanists but, at the same time, inaccessible to the common man for decades is Strict Nature Reserve “Perućica”. The whole region is rich in cultural heritage and tradition. ...
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The Old Wastewater Treatment Plant complex, today offering an exceptional testimony of water management, architecture and technology at the turn of the 20th century, houses a set of surface and underground structures. The way the complex has been composed reflects the technological processes involved in wastewater treatment, which took place underground (the grit chamber ...
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Port Royal, Jamaica, commonly referred to as "the wickedest city on earth" conjures images of marauding pirates, daring naval conquests, looting, riches, destruction and devastation. It boats an intriguing and turbulent history as it rapidly grew to become the most important trading post in the New World. At the height of its glittering wealth, on June 7, 1692, Port Royal ...
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The Olympic Park, built for the XX Olympic Summer Games 1972 in Munich, covers an area of 289 hectares in the northern centre of the Bavarian state capital. The main sports facilities lie at the heart of an architectural and park landscape moulded by their roof shape and the terrain topography in the southern part of the Olympic Park. This part also incorporates the ...
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“We want to share our story. It is a story that reaches back thousands of generations and stretches forward into the future. It is a story about our land and our people. It tells of the endless fight that has kept us standing strong and caring for our Ngurra (Country) today.”
Source: Ngaayintharri Gumawarni Ngurrangga:Murujuga Cultural Heritage Management Plan(Murujuga ...
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The ‘Monuments of the Deccan Sultanate’ is a serial property comprising of four component constitute the most representative, most authentic and best conserved examples of Deccani Sultanate monuments in India. The series demonstrates the exemplary convergence of national and international styles of Islamic architecture and their intersections with the prevalent Hindu ...
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At the end of the XIXth century the Russian orientalist Pallady Kafarov noted down in his diary the first information about cliff-pictures which he saw travelling down the Amur river. The article of P.I. Vetlitsin about the ancient images on the cliffs near the Sikachi-Alyan village was published in the newspaper "Priamurskiye Vedomosti" in 1895.
The in literature first ...
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Vani (7th -1st centuries BC) is an ancient temple city in the Colchis Lowlands located on the western bank of the Sulori River at its confluence with the Rioni River. It is located on a hill bordered by two ravines and overlooks the plains through which the Rioni River flows. There are beguiling views of the Sulori River Valley with its surrounding hills and the Meskhetian ...
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Lisbon has witnessed the meeting and exchange of cultures that took place in the city throughout the centuries, from the diverse peoples who settled there since the 7th century B.C. and left their cultural mark, to the globalisation generated by the Portuguese discoveries, when the city became a precursor to the maritime exploration of the 15th and 16th centuries, ...
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Altai is the unique region on the planet. It guards huge layers of life - sustaining activities of human civilization. It's a place of formation and cultural evolution of ethnic groups that are scattered through the Eurasia.
The Altai Republic, including the Altai mountain range is a part of the Russian Federation. It has external borders with Mongolia, China and ...
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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 ...
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,[Uniquement en anglais] Dates: 15 – 26 September 2017
Place: University of Tsukuba, Japan
Organized by the World Heritage Studies and the Certificate Programme on Nature Conservation (CPNC) at the University of Tsukuba, in cooperation with UNESCO World Heritage Centre, IUCN, ICCROM and ICOMOS.
The CBWNCL
Heritage Conservation is an evolving practice, and one of the ...
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The site of ancient town consists of strongly fortified citadel (165 x 235 m.) and south and north parts stretched at the distance of 500 m. The excavations carried out in the west and central parts of the citadel elicited many interesting facts. There it is found monumental building - "Temple of Oxes" (Greek geographical name of Amu-Daria river). In the temple the ...
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This mining town was established in the second half of the XVII century, and was originally called Real de la Limpia Coticepci6ii or Real de los Frailes by its Spanish founders. The town was laid out following the topography of the land. Its winding roads and alleys create interesting and attractive views from different angles that complement the town's unique ...
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The canyon of the Cotahuasi River and its evolutionary formation in South America's Andes, is the central axis of the province of La Union, department of Arequipa, in the basin of the river with the same name. The lower part, at its confluence with the Arma and Marán rivers, forms the Ocoña River (second largest of the 53 rivers in the Peruvian Pacific Basin) at an ...
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Nee de l'exploitation de mines d'argent, Kutná Hora devint, au XIVe siecle, une ville royale dotee de monuments symbolisant sa prosperite. L'eglise Sainte-Barbe, joyau du gothique finissant, et la cathedrale Notre-Dame de Sedlec, restauree dans le gout baroque au debut du XVIIIe siecle, influencerent l'architecture d'Europe centrale. Ces chefs-d'oeuvre s'inserent ...
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The Tong Hills, a rocky granite outcrop rising from the savannas of the Upper East Region of northern Ghana, are one of the most important cultural sites in West Africa. Located only sixteen kilometers from the regional capital, Bolgatanga, the hills are the sacral epicentre of the Talensi (Tale people) and an area of outstanding natural beauty and cultural richness. This ...
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The mercury-producing district of Huancavelica is located at the heart of the Andes range, at 3,700 meters above sea level, 245 kilometers southeast of Lima. Mercury or quicksilver production in Huancavelica was the largest of the Western hemisphere and it holds the fourth position of the world ranking, only bettered by Almadén (Spain), Idrija (Slovenia) and Mount Amiata ...
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Cellular Jail is situated on South Andaman Island, one of 572 islands forming Union Territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands in India. Inhabited since 2000 years, the islands were occupied by Europeans in the middle of 18th century. Few years later, British established naval base and a penal settlement on Chatham Island which was later shifted Viper Island.
The idea of ...
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WHC-11/18.GA/3
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WHC-13/19.GA/3
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WHC-15/20.GA/6
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WHC/17/21.GA/5
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WHC/19/22.GA/5
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WHC/21/23.GA/5
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The Khmer Rouge regime governed Cambodia during Democratic Kampuchea (1975-1979) following a radical ideology - rooted from different communist beliefs and politics - that was put into practice in the entire country over an extremely short period of three years, eight months and twenty days. It is the only regime known to have emptied all cities in their sphere of power ...
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,[Uniquement en anglais] The Institute of Disaster Mitigation for Urban Cultural Heritage, Ritsumeikan University Kyoto, Japan is organizing the 11th International Training Course on Disaster Risk Management of Cultural Heritage in Japan from 10 to 26 September 2016 under the UNESCO Chair Programme on Cultural Heritage and Risk Management, in cooperation with UNESCO, ...
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1) Punakha Dzong: N27 35 28 E89 52 38
2) Wangdue Phodrang Dzong: N27 30 00 E90 10 00
3) Paro Dzong: N27 26 00 E89 25 00
4) Trongsa Dzong: N27 29 58 E90 30 17
5) Dagana Dzong: N27 4 12 E89 52 47Dzong in Bhutan is a complex of fortified building which served as a principal seat of Buddhist school. Most of the Dzongs were built to be strategic footholds for gaining influence ...
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Zhouzhuang Town: Kunshan City, Jiangsu Province, N 31 06, E 120 50
Luzhi Town: Wu County, Jiangsu Province, N 31 17, E 31 17
Wuzhen Town: Tongxiang City, Zhejiang Province, N 30 44 46, E 120 29 44
Xitang Town: Jiashan County, Zhejiang Province, N 30 56 50, E 30 56 50
2500 years ago, when Suzhou became a city, its surrounding areas sprouted a number of half-urban, ...
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At the extreme north-western part of Zeta valley, at the confluence of the rivers Zeta, Morača and the Širalija stream, woven into the urban tissue of the contemporary Podgorica, there are the remains of the classical architecture of Doclea and an edifice from the Early Christian and medieval period.
Founded on a limited area, of irregular, polygonal shape, Doclea, ...
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Natural values of the Cave Slatinski Izvor are significant in several aspects. It is the biggest of all caves explored so far in the Republic of Macedonia, with a total length of all channels of more than I km. Their spatial proportion, i.e. the size of internal morphological elements (slopes, cascades, dry river bed hollowed out, river terrace, sand deposition, as well as ...
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1. Eastern Mongolian Strictly Protected Area
116 16 49.799 E 46 8 13.135 N
116 11 39.766 E 46 36 4.169 N
117 21 52.927 E 46 49 49.737 N
118 15 28.66 E 46 42 55. 58 N
117 22 6.248 E 46 21 38.269 N
118 27 45.617 E 46 44 26.753 N
2. Toson Khulstai National Park
112 29 42.532 E 48 17 24.388 N
112 58 5.412 E 48 21 5 .353 N
113 56 45.156 E 48 41 53.5 N
112 ...
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HuaShan has long been regarded as the most precipitous mountain in China, edged with sheer granite rock face, rugged cliffs and deep valleys. Its pathway is also one of the most treacherous, winding its way two thousand feet high to a narrow ledge on the rockface. In spite of or perhaps because of this inhospitable landscape, HuaShan is rich in flora and fauna. Taoist ...
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The city of Tigre is located 30 Km northwest from Buenos Aires, the capital city of Argentina, in the area of encounter of two geographic systems: the plains known as “pampa ondulada” (undulated pampa) and the delta of the Parana River. In relation with the former, Tigre is located in the low lands crossed by water streams that flow into the Plata River; all this ...
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Le site archeologique de Yin Xu, proche de la ville d'Anyang, a quelque 500 km au sud de Beijing, fut la derniere capitale de l'ancienne dynastie Shang (1300-1046 av. J.-C.). Il temoigne de l'age d'or de la culture, de l'artisanat et des sciences de la Chine antique, une periode de grande prosperite de l'age du bronze chinois. Beaucoup de tombes et palais royaux, ...
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The area is defined by a natural tropical garden that gradually lost its original purpose over time. It is a mesophilus mountain forest formed by framboyanes or "flamboyant" trees, mocoques or "shaving brush" trees, and palos de rosa or rosewood trees. Giant ferns are among the many other species found there that possess great natural beauty. From 1944 to 1960, this was ...
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Northern area, Carrowmore 51: UTM E 531369.2226 / N6011311.2566Southern area, Carrowkeel, Cairn F: UTM E174936.4226 N311386.5307
County Sligo possesses approximately one hundred intensely interconnected megalithic passage tomb sites and undisturbed cairns in often dramatic topographical environments.
The site can be visualised as a northern coastal group of passage tombs ...
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Ritigala Archaeological SiteN8 7 1.164 E80 39 57.5604Manakanda Archaeological SiteN8 7 15.4308 E80 32 26.25Arankale Archaeological SiteN7 38 37.5612 E80 25 1.524Maligatenna Archaeological SiteN7 45 42.7788 E80 25 27.5736
The proposed property, Buddhist Meditation Monasteries of Ancient Sri Lanka, consists of four serial component parts, namely Ritigala, Manakanda, ...
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,[Uniquement en anglais]
Application deadline 15 February 2013 for coursework beginning August 2013
Society is faced with some of the greatest challenges in history, from climate change to biodiversity loss to energy security and beyond. We need leaders who think differently, embrace complexity, and see the human and environmental condition as one intricate system. ...
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During mid-19th and 20th centuries, settlements arose along the Gulf of Arauco, in a territory known as the Carbon Basin of the Biobio Region in Chile, due to and for the exploitation of submarine coal deposits, which, located down the coastline of the cities of Coronel, Lota, Curanilahue and Lebu, began a globalization process in South America that originated an intense ...
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The ancient city of Korykos extends east-west alongside the highway at a distance of 65 km from Mersin and 25 km from Silifke. It sits on the slopes of the mountain where it reaches the coast. As the mountain approaches the sea, two small bays are formed. The city lies alongside northeast and southwest axis reaching Elaiussa-Sebaste at the east and Hell-Heaven Caves at the ...
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,[Uniquement en anglais] The International Centre on Space Technologies for Natural and Cultural Heritage (HIST), under the auspices of UNESCO, is organizing the 1st International Workshop on Technologies for World Heritage, which is sponsored by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in Bejing from the 9th to the 28th of October 2012. The theme of the workshop is “From ...
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The Mausoleum of Hecatomnus is located on the East side of Hisarbaşı Hill in the Milas District of Muğla.
In 1675/76 German scholar Jacob Spon visited Milas - which was known as “Mylasa” at the time and discovered the podium of the mausoleum and the Menandros Column. He included the engraving(s) of this column in the travelogue he published with his British ...
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Khooni Bhandara is an underground water management system comprising of eight waterworks built in the historical city of Burhanpur in Burhanpur district of the Central State of Madhya Pradesh in India.These Mughal period waterworks of Burhanpur form one of the most significant historic water systems in India.
Built on similar Persian qanat approach as also in the existing ...
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Lapita sites in generalArchaeological sites containing Lapita pottery have been identified on all island groups in the Kingdom of Tonga and currently number over 30 sites (Burley, 2001). Most of the known sites that have been excavated are in the Ha'apai Group and are an intrinsic component of the Ha'apai cultural landscape. The archaeological deposits containing ...
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Cross River-Korup Takamanda (CRIKOT) National Parks lies between the Cross River in South - Eastern Nigeria and the Sanaga River in Western Cameroon. The area stands out biogeographically because it is a stronghold of remarkable specie richness centred on the ‘Cameroon Highlands’, a discontinuous chain of mountains, plateaux and other uplands of volcanic origin that cover ...
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Jebel Mara is located in Darfur region, the western part of Sudan between latitudes 12° 25' and 13° N and longitudes 24° 10' and 24° 12' E, extending along 135 km in the north-south direction with a maximum width of about 80 km in the southern third of the mountain. Total area is estimated to be about 2000 km². It lies within a plain of semi-desert with desert to the ...
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This is a serial proposal of 9 primarily commercial buildings in Chicago’s central business district, the “Loop.” The buildings, built over a period of about 20 years starting in the 1880s, exemplify the first generation of “skyscrapers.” Making use of new technologies of the time, particularly internal metal structural systems instead of load-bearing masonry walls, they ...
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The National Park of Peninsular Malaysia (Taman Negara), originally was gazetted as Gunung Tahan Game Reserve in 1925 and in 1939 it was declared as a National Park by the British Administrators under the name ‘King George V National Park’ under Enactment 1939, to commemorate the installation of King George V in England. Historically the three parts were ...
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The nominated property covers a continuous area of approximately 188,292 hectares embedded in a large-scale buffer zone. It consists of 17,712 hectares in the former inner-German border strip and 170,580 hectares in adjacent protected areas.
The Green Belt is a joint nomination from the nine federal states Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Brandenburg, ...
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The archaeological site of Mehrgarh consist of a number of low archaeological mounds in the Kachi plain, close to the mouth of the Bolan Pass. Located next to the west bank of the Bolan river, they are some 30 kilometres from the town of Sibi. Covering an area of some 250 hectares, most of the archaeological deposits are buried deep beneath accumulations of alluvium ...
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The 4730 km2 Etosha Pan is a huge, pristine oval-shaped salt pan situated in northern Namibia. It is the central feature of Namibia’s Etosha National Park. It is the terminal playa of the Cuvelai drainage system in the lowest part of the Ovambo Basin at an elevation between 1,071 to 1,086 m above sea level. Smaller pans such as the connecting Fisher’s Pan in the east and ...
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Lo Manthang the capital of the former Kingdom of Lo was constructed in the 15th Century on a plateau at 3800 meters above sea level. The settlement is located on the ancient trade route that runs along the Kali Gandaki River that cuts through the Himalayas. The settlement is surrounded by a 6-meter high earthen wall with square towers or dzong on the corners. Within the ...
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The city of Gaziantep is located on the edge of the Alleben Stream and the settlement history of the city dates to end of the 5th century. The stream flows by winding the settlement area in C shape. However, Alleben Stream is low in water and the water level is further reduced by increasing summer temperature. The Gaziantep Plateau also has a small number of streams. ...
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Cotubanamá National Park (also known as East National Park) is part of the National System of Protected Areas of the Dominican Republic; it is located in the furthest limit of the Southeast of the country, between the provinces of La Romana and La Altagracia. Its territorial scope constitutes a peninsula with a trapezoidal shape, the major base would be represented by an ...
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Jabel Al Hassania National Park is located in the River Nile State, and presents a desert and semi desert environment. It covers an area of about 54,966.69 km². It is far from Al Damir Town by 50 km to the west. It was declared as a National Park in 2003. It is bordered on the north by Jabel Alnalt and from the southwest by Jabel Topper and on the western side by Jabel ...
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Mount Elgon, an impressive transboundary landscape, is a significant geographical and ecological landmark located approximately 140 kilometers northeast of Lake Victoria. Straddling the border between Kenya and Uganda, it stands as a testament to the ancient volcanic activity in East Africa. Remarkably, Mount Elgon is not only the oldest but also the largest solitary ...
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,[Uniquement en anglais] The Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st-Century Maritime Silk Road, known as the Belt and Road Initiative or One Belt One Road, focuses on connectivity and cooperation among more than 60 countries, representing more than a third of the global economy and more than half of the World’s population.
The scope and extent of the Belt and Road Initiative ...
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The Tai-Ahom clan upon their migration from China established their capital in different parts of the Brahmaputra River Valleybetween 12th to 18th CE. Usurping the Barahi tribe, Chau-lung Siu-ka-pha established the first capital of the Ahoms at the foothill of Patkai hills and named it Che-rai-doi or Che-tam-doi, meaning “a dazzling city above the mountain” in ...
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Tell Balata, identified with ancient Shechem, represents the earliest settlement in the Nablus area. It is located at the eastern entrance of modern Nablus, between Mount Ebal and Mount Gerizim (see number 4 above). Shechem was mentioned in the Egyptian Execration texts and the Khu-Sebek inscription from the 19th century B.C. It was mentioned in the Amarna Letter in the ...
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Part of transnational serial nomination
The Viking serial nomination comprises land-, sea- and townscapes stretching from the North Atlantic to the Baltic Sea. Among the thousands of Viking sites from the eighth to the twelfth centuries AD, these nine nominated properties from six nations are outstanding examples representing the wide diversity of this early maritime ...
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The historic fortress of Gwalior, was initiated by Raja Sourya Sena who finished the fortification system around the plateau in 773CE. As per its strategic location on the basalt rock hills, it is mentioned as ‘Gopachala, Gopagiri’ and other allied names all meaning ‘cowherds’ hill in the old Sanskrit Inscriptions. The modern name Gwalior appears to have been derived from ...
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Definition and delimitation of property
The Mid-Atlantic Ridge (MAR) is a volcanic mountain range that rises from the Atlantic abyssal plain, extending from the Arctic (Gakkel Ridge) to the Antarctic (Bouvet Triple Junction) across the two hemispheres, ranging more than 16,000 km. Ocean ridges such as MAR are highly complex and dynamic geological systems, which develop at ...
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The Great Moravian fortified seulement at Mikulêice is the best preserved archaeological evidence documenting the existence of the West-Slavonic state of the early Middle Ages, situated in the Central European area and called Great Moravia.It was the first known West-Slavonic state stretching in the gth century over the territory of central and south Moravia and southwest ...
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St. Cyril's Church: N 50 29 0, E 30 28 19
St. Andrew's Church: N 50 27 31, E 30 31 05
St. Cyril's Church in Kyiv is an outstanding monument of world culture. It has preserved the 12th century architecture and 12th, 17th and 19th centuries monumental painting. It's a unique East-Christian construction of Kyivan Rus with typical for the epoch of feudal wars peculiarities. ...
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1. The City Wall in XingchengXingcheng City Wall is located at the west bank of Liaodong Bay of China, the middle part of Liaoxi Corridor and the central part of Xingcheng city.Xingcheng City Wall was built during the 3rd year of Xuande Reign of Ming Dynasty (428), completed in the 5th year of Xuande Reign (430), meant to protect and safeguard the city from the intrusion ...
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Persepolis is one of the three properties included in the World Heritage List in 1979, belonging to the Achaemanid dynasty and is the most complete architectural form and city planning of this period. This property had been not only a political center but also a religious one. Moreover, the existence of the sacred mount of Mehr (Rahmat) in the neighborhood of Persepolis ...
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Dine Sheik Hussein is located in the South Eastern part of Ethiopia. It is a 10th century Islamic centre of pilgrimage for people coming from different corners of the country, and Islamic communities of the Horn and the Middle East countries, twice a year. Dirre Sheik Hussein is a site of magnificent groups of buildings, monumental tombs and courts representing early ...
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Amasya is located in the north of Anatolia, in the inner part of the Middle Black Sea Region, at the junction point of the roads which connect Black Sea Coast to the rest of Anatolia. Amasya has been founded in a deep valley formed by Yeşilırmak River which flows between two-thousand-metre-high mountains extending in the east-west direction. The limestone stack ...
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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 ...
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The site of Kültepe, which was the capital of the ancient Kingdom of Kanesh and centre of a complex network of Assyrian trade colonies in the 2nd millennium B.C., is located 20 km to the northeast of the modern city of Kayseri. Situated just at the foot of Mount Erciyes (ancient Argeus) and on a fertile plain, Kültepe occupies a position at which historic and ...
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The fortified settlement at Caričin Grad is located in south-east Serbia, on the slopes of Mount Radan, descending towards the Leskovac valley, away from any major roads, in the Pusta Reka valley.
The first archaeological excavations of Tsaritsin Grad began in 1912 and have been going on to the present day. Based upon the obtained results and historic sources, ...
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NetherlandsFunds-in-Trust
The UNESCO/Netherlands Funds-in-Trust (NFiT) co-operation to support the World Heritage Centre was established in 2001 by the Netherlands Ministry of Education, Culture and Sciences with the aim of reinforcing the implementation of the 1972 "Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage".
Under this Funds-in-Trust ...
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Located at Aveiro’s District, Municipality of Mealhada, Civil Parish of Luso, at 40° 33’ N and 8° 28’ (O) “W”at the “northwestern” extreme of Bussaco’s mountain range, the “Desert of the Discalced Carmelites and Built Ensemble of the Palace-Hotel in Bussaco” develops between 250 and 560 meters and exposes up mainly towards north. The enclosed surface has an area of about ...
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Located 90km from the capital Asuncion, the town of Sapucai is known for its fascinating railway complex. The town of Sapucai was constructed between 1887 and 1894, and became not just a station on the line, but a place where the steam locomotive trains were repaired and constructed.
The history of the railway in Paraguay goes way back in the mid nineteenth century when ...
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There are places where the interplay between endogenous factors and morphogenetic agents builds up enchanting landscapes, suspended in a delicate condition between being an environmental resource or a natural hazard. When such places are also settled by the human presence, the final interaction is absolutely unique.
In Central Italy, past geodynamic and volcanic events ...
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Wooded meadows are traditional seminatural communities that few hundred years ago were widespread in the countries around the Baltic Sea but also in other parts of Europe. They are sparse natural wooded areas with regularly mown herb layer where the characteristic appearance and species composition preserves only as a result of traditional agricultural activities: mowing ...
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Arkaroola Protection Area: 30°13’46.183”S 139°21’36.457”E
Vulkathunha-Gammon Ranges National Park: 30°27’56.96”S 139°8’26.453”E
Ikara-Flinders Ranges National Park: 31°21’33.75”S 138°38’32.581”E
Nilpena and Ediacara Conservation Park: 30°58’48.202”S 138°12’22.962”; 30°48’46.767”S 138°8’17.336”E
Maynards Well: 30°32’23.4”S 138°42’41.5”E
Ajax Hill: 30°40’11.475”S ...
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Akwasnshi/Atal as the monolith is called among the Ejagham people of the Cross River State is distributed among over" thirty communities. In each community, the stones are found in circles, sometimes perfect circles, facing each other standing erect, except where they have been tampered with by weather or man.In some cases, the stones are found in the center of the ...
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The monument is located on the southwest side of the circular part of the Svobody Square, which is one of the largest in size in the world. Its building is the most prominent architectural complex of 1920-1950.
The State Industry Building takes a central position in the ensemble of the square buildings. It is located at the fan-shaped area divided into three cross passages ...
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Central Point Coordinates of Yue Kiln Sites at Shanglin Lake: N 30°07′50″, E 121°19'35''
Central Point Coordinates of Longquan Kiln Sites at Dayao:
Dayao (N 27°56′16″, E 119°0′08″)
Xikou (N 27°54′35″, E 118°59′07″)
Jincun Village (N 27°48′50″, E ...
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The following monuments are located with this area:
Early Dilmun town
South Burial Complex (the "Honeycomb" complex)
* North Burial Complex
* Late Dilmun temple
* Single Burial mounds
To maximize their appeal to the general public, these monuments should be promoted collectively as a single attraction. This should be done by creating a Saar Heritage Park to protect ...
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The Western Area Peninsula and the adjacent Banana Islands have lush rainforest, pristine beaches, breath-taking, steep mountains, a unique and long-standing culture and great history. The Western Area Peninsula, which is part of the Upper Guinean Forest Ecosystem, is located on the west coast of the country and is home to roughly 1 to 1. 5 million people (20% of the ...
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1. Funeral site of the Xiongnu Elite at Noyon Uul mountain
Batsumber, Bornuur , Mandal soums of Tuv province
N48 33 44.7, E 106 30 32.5
2. Funeral site of the Xiongnu Elite at Gol Mod I
Khairkhan, Erdenemandal soums of Arkhangai province
N 48 19 38.2, E 101 55 02.0
3. Funeral site of the Xiongnu Elite at Gol Mod II
Undur-Ulaan soum, Arkhangai ...
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8495517.74
200945.48
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ANDAHUAYLILLAS
SAN PEDRO APÓSTOL DE ANDAHUAYLILLAS
8486656.40
210305.20
Cusco
QUISPICANCH
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SAN JUAN BAUTISTA DE HUARO
8484837.75
214331.40
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The Cook Islands comprise of 15 islands spread over 2.2 million square kilometres of ocean, in the center of the Polynesia Triangle between the islands of Tonga to the west and French Polynesian to the east.
Rarotonga is the capital island of the Cook Islands and is physically unique compared to the neighboring islands, where erosion and periodic submersions have reduced ...
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Bunce is a 1600 feet uninhabitted island lying approximately 20 miles up the Sierra Leone River from Freetown, the Capital city of Sierra Leone. Bunce Island was established as a slave trading station in 1670. From 1670 to 1728 two companies- the Gambia Adventurers and the Royal African Company of England ran Bunce Island one after the other. Bunce Island’s ...
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Wooden Pagoda of Yingxian : N 39°33′ 54.12″ E 113°10′ 55.26′′
Main Hall of Fengguo Monastery of Yixian County: N 41° 32′ 34.6″ E 121° 14′ 33.8′′
Wooden Pagoda in Yingxian County, Shanxi Province and the Main Hall of the Fengguo Monastery in Yixian County, Liaoning Province are both ...
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The nominated property of Hainan Tropical Rainforest and the Traditional Settlement of Li Ethnic Group, located in the southern-central part of Hainan Island, which is a sanctuary for numerous globally endangered and endemic species of Hainan Island, as well as the major place where the Li ethnic group has lived for generations and established a harmonious relationship ...
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The property is a mixed cultural and natural site covering over 6% of the landmass of PNG. The Kikori River Basin / Great Papuan Plateau encompasses over two million hectares. There are few landscapes in Melanesia as dramatic with features including the extinct volcano of Mt Bosavi, cockpit and needle karst of the extensive Darai limestone, remarkable Hegigio Gorge and ...
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The small town of Hatta is situated at the foot of the Hajar Mountains, a chain that stretch out the south-eastern edge of the Arabian Peninsula, along the Gulf of Oman. This mountain range, shared by Oman and the United Arab Emirates, features the Samail ophiolite, the largest and best-preserved ophiolite complex in the world. The landscape of the region is characterized ...
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The ecoregion of "Los Petenes-Ría Celestún" forms a coastal corridor of wetlands in excellent state of preservation. This system forms a unique biogeographical area in Mexico, of great ecological value for its large faunistic and floristic diversity.
This region is a mosaic of mudflats, known locally as blanquizales, mixed with mangroves, cattails, reeds, low ...
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The Djerdap National Park embraces part of the area of the Djerdap Canyon known as the Iron Gates in the central part of the Danube river course,and is divided by the international border running along the middle of the river into the southern - Yugoslav and the northern - Rumanian part. The total area of the National Park is 63.600 ha and the protection zone consists of ...
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Les beguines, ces femmes qui consacraient leur vie a Dieu sans pour autant se retirer du monde, fonderent au XIIIe siecle des beguinages, ensembles clos repondant a leurs besoins spirituels et materiels. Les beguinages flamands forment des ensembles architecturaux composes de maisons, d’eglises, de dependances et d’espaces verts organises suivant une conception spatiale ...
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Mta-Tusheti, a small historic geographic region in Eastern Georgia located on the northern slopes of the Greater Caucasus Mountains, covers the area of approximately 796 sq. km. It is one of the most ecologically unspoiled regions in Caucasus. Mta-Tusheti vernacular architecture in general and fortress-like residential buildings in particular represents special interest in ...
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The Bhojeshwar Mahadev Temple, located in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, is a thousand-year-old temple dedicated to Lord Shiva that overlooks the Betwa River. It has architectural grandeur, colossal lingam[1], and historical significance. Built during the 11th century under the patronage of Raja Bhoj in Bhojpur, the temple represents the zenith of temple architecture during the ...
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The Hittite spring sanctuary of Eflatun Pınar lies about 100 kilometres west of Konya close to the lake of Beyşehir in a hilly, quite arid landscape. At the top of a little river valley, that flows in the further progress into the lake, the “lilac coloured spring” (translation of Eflatun Pınar) produces an astonishing quantity of ice cold, clear water. Directly ...
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The archaeological site of Tell Sa'ad (F3 ) Dilmun Town N3258669.797 E235762.699
The archaeological site of Tell (F6 - A) Al Hakim Palace N3258904.000 E236053.000
The archaeological site of Tell (F6 - B) The Tower Temple N3258888.000 E236101.000
The archaeological site of Tell Sae'ed (F5) The Hellenistic Fortress N3258787.000 E236086.000
The ...
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Geographic location: The Las Labradas Archaeological Zone is located on the coast of the Pacific Ocean, in Northwestern Mexico, facing the Sea of Cortes, on the shore of the beach bearing the same name, in the Municipality of San Ignacio, in the Southern part of the State of Sinaloa, Mexico. It is found on the outskirts of a small fishing village called Barras de Piaxtla, ...
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At the beginning of the Cenozoic (Paleocene – Holocene), in the South Coast of Peru, there were faults that caused the formation of the marine sedimentary basins known as Pisco and Camana Basins, where the first one of them started to recoat itself after the Middle Eocene. The Cenozoic marine deposits of the aforementioned basins have a relevant Cenozoic faunal diversity ...
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The word `Sikh' itself is derived from the Sanskrit word `sishya' (of which the vernacular form is sikhya) meaning disciple/¬devoted follower. The same principle of universal participation is extended to planning and execution of the complex. In the center of the amrit-sass (pool of nectar) is the Harimandir (sanctum sanctorum), which is connected by the ...
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The Aizanoi ancient city is located in the inner Western Anatolia Region, 48 km Southwest of the Kütahya Province, and within the boundaries of the Çavdarhisar district. Today, it is approximately at a 1000-1050 m altitude in the flat treeless plateau which is known as Örencik Plain. The City was located approximately 40 km Southwest of the Cotiaeum, 25 km ...
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Quedlinburg, dans le Land de Saxe-Anhalt, fut une capitale du Saint Empire romain germanique a l'epoque de la dynastie des Saxons-Ottoniens. Elle devint une ville commercante et prospere des le Moyen Age. Par le nombre et la qualite de ses batiments a colombage, Quedlinburg est un exemple exceptionnel de ville europeenne medievale. Sa collegiale Saint-Servais est un ...
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The area proposed for inscription in the World Heritage List is located in the centre of the historic nucleus of the town of Zadar and comprises the Roman forum with the remains of a temple, the Episcopal complex with the cathedral of St. Anastasia, the archbishop’s palace, the church of St. Donatus and the Zmajevic seminary, the orthodox church of St. Elias, the ...
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The nature of the South Urals is beautiful! The dense forests on the mountain slopes alternate with sunny valleys filled with honey aroma, fast, clean rivers cut through deep canyons in white limestone massifs. Since ancient times, people have chosen this wonderful country. It was inhabited already in the Paleolithic age, and here developed one of the most ancient and ...
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During the Colony, the Tarapaca area was the setting of a rather complex cuitural process, invoiving the contribution of the Quechua, Tiahuanaco, Inca and Aymara people, that resulted in a sort of ethnic and cultural "melting pot". The most tangible reflection of the encounter between the Spanish and Tarapaca worids are the numerous chapels and churches built at the time. ...
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The serial phase transboundary nomination contains two sites the Old Village and its surroundings in Hollókő, already part of the UNESCO World Heritage List since 1987, and the village Rimetea. Both Hollókő and Rimetea are an exceptional example of a deliberately preserved traditional human settlement representative of a culture that has become vulnerable under the impact ...
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It is a remarkable example of viability and transmission of human being's collective thoughts from different generations to the present one. What is significant in the city of Maybod is the regularity in city planning. The anatomy and spatial structure of the city shows original plans which conform with the old Iranian city planning.
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In 1985, the World Heritage Committee registered the site "Asturian Pre-Romanesque Architecture" in the World Heritage List (312). It consisted of three sites (Santa María del Naranco, San Miguel de Lillo and Santa Cristina de Lena). The entry was made on the basis of criteria (i), (ii) and (iv), with a favourable report from the Advisory Body ICOMOS.
In 1988, the State ...
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Koramaz Valley is situated within the boundaries of modern Kayseri Province in central Anatolia. The valley is an earthquake fracture which is 12 km long and sweeps from the east and to the west. The base altitude of the valley is 1500m in the east edge and 1665 m in the west edge. Some of the surface waters form their own valleys and the others soak into underground and ...
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This building has been described as one of the finest examples of Gothic Architecture in the Caribbean.Built 1887 - 1889, the building is a translation in wood (with cast-iron colums) of what is described as "fancy dress" Gothic, complete with a steeply pitched roof, spire, pinnacles and ornamental wrought iron crenellation.Dimensions - 27.1m long, 17.4m wide, ...
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In the high mountains of Armenia, unique archaeological monuments have been preserved to our days, which are traditionally called by the people “vishap” (Armenian for “dragon”). These are two to five meter high basalt stelae, which are unique among the stone stelae of the ancient world because of their unparalleled animal iconography and peculiar locations. Vishaps are ...
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Ještěd mountain-top hotel and television transmitter are integrated into one tower structure. The tower stands on the mountain of the same name Ještěd, which is the highest element of the Lužické hory (Lužické mountains) massif in the northern part of the Czech Republic. The peak of the mountain (1012 m above sea level) is approximately 6 kms from the centre of Liberec and ...
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Archaeological Site of Panamá Viejo: N: 995933,051; E: 666505,166Historic Centre of Panamá City Within Casco Antiguo: N: 989913,756; E: 661089,998
Panama City is directly associated with important interchanges of human values throughout its history due to its strategic position on the Central American Isthmus. As a terminal city and link of important communication routes, ...
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Avec ses cinq plateaux, le Mont Wutai est une montagne sacree bouddhiste. Ce paysage culturel compte 41 monasteres, dont la grande salle orientale du temple de Foguang, l’un des derniers edifices en bois de la dynastie Tang existant, orne de sculptures d’argile grandeur nature. Il abrite egalement le temple Shuxiang de la dynastie Ming, vaste ensemble de 500 statues ...
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Kwiambana ruins lie on and around a twin-peakod granite inselberg in what has been until very recently a relatively inaccessible area of the Kwiambana Game Reserve. The well-preserved mud structures are enclosed by a five to seven metre high bank and ditch which becomes a mud-block wall with loopholes where the circular town wall passes over bare rock, and is a natural ...
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Les trulli sont des habitations de pierre seche de la region des Pouilles, en Italie du Sud. Ce sont des exemples remarquables de la construction sans mortier, technique heritee de la prehistoire et toujours utilisee dans la region. Les habitations surmontees de leurs toits pyramidaux, en dome ou coniques, sont construites avec des galets de pierre a chaux ramasses dans ...
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Located in Qianshan County, Anhui Province, Tianzhushan has both pleasant ecological environment and profound historical culture. It is a large mountainous landscape, dotted with granite peaks and caves, waterfalls and springs, which is the most beautiful granite along Tan-Lu fault zone. Tianzhushan is rich in geoheritage such as mammalian fossils and an ultrahigh pressure ...
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Tana Toraja Traditional Settlement is a series of 10 traditional settlements or constituents of them, such as burial or ceremonial grounds. The properties are scattered within Tana Toraja Regency in the Province of South Sulawesi, Indonesia. Tana-Toraja occupies about 3.205 km2 of a relatively hilly terrain with plateaus rising from 300 to 2,800 meters above sea level.
The ...
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Wasit is an Islamic city built in the last quarter of the first Hijri century (the 7th century L.C) by Al-Hajaj bin Yousif AL-Thaqafi, as an administrative centre for Iraq. As an ancient city its circumference is 16 KM., It was. Abandoned in the tenth Hijri century after the change in the River (Tigris) bed. Its remains stood sound and sate due to its distant site away ...
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The Mts. Iglit-Baco National Park (MIBNP) was proclaimed by virtue R.A. No. 6148 dated Nov. 11, 1970. As such, it is an initial components of National Integrated Protected Areas System under. Mts. Iglit-Baco NP encompasses at least eight (8) major river systems and has a rugged terrain composed of slopes, river gorgers and plateaus.Portions of the Park are ...
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It was in the 18th and 19th centuries that large and fast sailing ships made their mark on world history by forging lasting and stable links within Europe and with other continents as well. The sailing-ship traffic led to a blossoming of trade and to the growth of harbours and of seafaring communities; a maritime culture came into existence. Dragør is a unique instance of ...
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The name of Isla de Flores Cultural Landscape and its fluvio-marine context stems from the interpretation of different factors such as the traces of human occupation, the geographical context and the patterns of land use, the fluvio-marine context, the use of the different site resources, the former impact of the migrant population, the remaining memory present in ...
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All four clusters of Magadansky Reserve are separated from each other, rather hard-to- reach and have no settlements or constant transport roads. Each cluster has its own distinctive features in locality appearance, climate conditions, composition of flora and fauna.
Clusters of the Magadansky Reserve are located within the Northern Far East mainland mountain and upland ...
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Ed-Dur Site is one of the of the largest archaeological sites in the United Arab Emirates, overlooks Al Beidha Lake. It is naturally surrounded by a series of high sand dunes that protect it from the northern offshore wind prevailing in the region.
The site is associated with Meliha site in the Emirate of Sharjah, with which it had strong ties. It was considered the food ...
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One of the basic and essential needs of humans concerns the possession of a safe shelter, a need which since pre-historic era has been with them up to now. This basic need has been met in different ways in accordance with the prevalent socio-cultural and geographical conditions. The settlement of man in his own-built environment revolutionized his life bringing about ...
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,[Uniquement en anglais] The pilot implementation of the UNESCO Thematic Indicators for Culture in the 2030 Agenda (UNESCO Culture|2030 Indicators) has been launched in the Republic of North Macedonia and the city of Skopje. A kick-off workshop was organized by the Ministry of Culture and city of Skopje in close collaboration with UNESCO, on 6th June 2022. The workshop ...
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It is a National Park that has a covered area for pluvial ecosystem l. It belongs to the Bioma of Humid Subtropical Forest, with areas of life that goes from the Forest very Humid-Montano Under, until the Forest Humid-Montano Under, their flora is considered of cloudy forest, latifoliado and mixed. It is a little altered, what has favoured the functions of soil production, ...
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L'etroite Vall de Boi, situee dans les hautes Pyrenees, dans la region d'Alta Ribagorca, est entouree de montagnes abruptes. Chacun des villages de la vallee, environne de champs clotures, abrite une eglise romane. Il y a egalement de vastes paturages saisonniers en altitude. 988Catalan Romanesque Churches of the Vall de BoiEglises romanes catalanes de la Vall de ...
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Laodikeia is located within the borders of the villages of Eskihisar, Goncalı, Korucuk and Bozburun, six km north of the modern city of Denizli. The site is on the road to Pamukkale (Hierapolis), which is approximately ten km to the north.
Laodikeia is also situated at the crossroads of main routes that connect western, central and southern Anatolia with each other. Set ...
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In the middle of the II century B.C. the Chinese emperor Wu of Han sent a diplomatic mission to the West headed by Zhang Qian, who went to the lands of Wusun, Fergans and Kangju communities. This voyage is commonly considered as the starting point of the active economic and cultural interactions between the communities of the eastern and western parts of the Eurasian ...
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Naranjo Sa’aal was an ancient kingdom of the Mayan culture. It was the second largest regional Mayan kingdom in the Peten region, after Tikal with a wide territorial extension of approximately 150 km². The cultural occupation began approximately in the year 500 B.C. and was abandoned in 850 A.D. It was governed by a solid dynasty of 44 kings who made it the regional ...
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,[Uniquement en anglais] To what extent does the World Heritage status transform places This international conference in Oslo 14-15 November 2013 aims to bring the research and management communities together for two fruitful days of dissemination and discussion.
Since the 1990s World Heritage has been portrayed as a marker of transformation, from economic growth, ...
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Historical background
The area was occupied by the populations of el-Amra, then of Nagada who built a prehistoric and protodynastic village which later became the city of Abdjou (Abydos is the transcription of the Egyptian name) with protodynastic kings (the Horus) and the Thinites (1st and IInd dynasty), whose capital (This) was slightly further north and whose main ...
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The University of Havana is the oldest higher education institution in the country, founded in January 1728. The Dominican fathers have the merit of promoting the approval of the first Cuban higher education center (third in the Caribbean region and sixteenth in Latin America), which name would be Real and Pontificia Universidad de San Gerónimo (Royal and Pontifical ...
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Naj Tunich is a cave of karstic formation that was used by the old Mayan of the southeast of Petén like cult centre by what acquired of religious magic traditions. It possesses an exceptional beauty, to belong to the region fisiográfica of the Sedimentary Low Lands. Inside Naj Tunich's cave that means in Mayan “stone house” there are cave paintings that ...
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There is a six-foot gully though now covered 'in a thickest that leads into the ancient Cave Temple. This is the main oracular shrine of Ibn Ukpabi and by which stands as if on guard the cult statute of Kamalu "the warrior god". The site also contains an altar, which is the kitchen area. A waterfall (the loud sound of which from a distance is regarded as the prophetic ...
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Preparation of a new category “Virgin Komi Forests” (re-nomination) solves two major tasks:
1. Extend the area of the existing World Heritage site due to the increase of the territory of the National Park " Yugyd Va " (an area of over 183 thousand hectares) that is the part of an entire old-growth coniferous forests ecosystem, protected within the National Park "Yugyd Va" ...
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The Fortress of "S. Miguel" is established in the old mountain of S. Paulo, near the bridge of Luanda Island.It is the first defensive edification built in Angola, and Paulo Dias de Novais, the first Governor of Angola who unshiped in Luanda in 1575, sent it built. It is a huge ~ area walled in fortifications and countreforts, rubblework edification with a ...
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Phang Yang, Pha Kho and Si Yang ancient towns7.65040 N, 100.36586 ESathing Phra ancient town7.47112 N, 100.42783 EFortified Settlement of Singora at Khao Daeng and Laem Son7.20745 N, 100.57066 ESongkhla Old Town at Bo Yang7.20065 N, 100.59055 EOver thousands of years, several settlements have emerged, evolved, and developed around Songkhla Lake, a coastal lagoon in ...
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The Montado is a cultural landscape shaped by human activity. Over the ages mankind has been able to mould and sustain a multifunctional agro-silvo-pastoral ecosystem located in the south of the Tagus Valley. These areas were originally occupied by Mediterranean woodlands and are now populated by cork oaks and holm oaks - legally protected species since the 7th century - ...
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Craftsmanship means more than technical virtuosity. It is not only a profound understanding of materials, and of the tools with which materials are fashioned, but most importantly it involves a genuine pride which drives an individual to craft and weave as well as can be done, beyond what is required, beyond economic considerations of reward. An excellent example of such ...
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The Palace of Sheikh Abdullah Al-Jabir Al-Sabah is a heritage site in the State of Kuwait. It is situated in the eastern part of Kuwait city, Dasman area, besides Dasman Palace, near the Arabian Gulf coast.
This site was built in the early Twentieth Century by Sheikh Khazaal Bin Mirdaw, Ruler of Muhammarah (1897 - 1925 ) on a piece of land which he received as a gift from ...
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The Great Wall of Gorgan, Golestan Province, in northern Iran was built from 420s AD to 530s AD; it is then occupied until the 7th century. This was the time when the Persian Empire, under the Sassanian dynasty, was involved in a series of wars at its northern frontier, first against the Hephthalites or White Huns and later against the Turks. The Great Wall of Gorgan ...
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The Grenadines are a group of 35 small islands located between Grenada and St. Vincent in the Windward Islands of the Lesser Antilles. They stretch over a distance of 90 km from the Island of London Bridge in the south to Bequia in the north. The natural boundary of the site approximates to the Grenadine Shelf, which is some 50m deep and falls off steeply in the Tobago ...
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The Grenadines are a group of 35 small islands located between Grenada and St. Vincent in the Windward Islands of theLesser Antilles. They stretch over a distance of 90 km from the Island of London Bridge in the south to Bequia in the north. The natural boundary of the site is approximate to the Grenadine Shelf, which is some 50m deep and falls off steeply into the Tobago ...
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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 ...