8194 Decisions
146 Resolutions
By Year
The World Heritage Committee,
Having examined Documents WHC/23/45.COM/8B and WHC/23/45.COM/INF.8B1,
Inscribes Koh Ker: Archaeological Site of Ancient Lingapura or Chok Gargyar, Cambodia, on the World Heritage List on the basis of criteria (ii) and (iv);
Adopts the following Statement of Outstanding Universal Value:
Brief synthesis
Koh Ker: Archaeological Site of Ancient Lingapura or Chok Gargyar was a capital of the Khmer Empire between 921 and 944 CE. Partially hidden in a dense broad-leaf forest between the Dangrek and Kulen mountain ranges on a gently sloping hill some eighty ...
The World Heritage Committee,
Having examined Documents WHC/23/45.COM/8B and WHC/23/45.COM/INF.8B1,
Inscribes the Cultural Landscape of Old Tea Forests of the Jingmai Mountain in Pu’er, China, on the World Heritage List as a cultural landscape, on the basis of criteria (iii) and (v);
Adopts the following Statement of Outstanding Universal Value:
Brief synthesis
The Cultural Landscape of Old Tea Forests of the Jingmai Mountain in Pu’er is located in Huimin Town, Pu’er City, Yunnan Province, in southwestern China. This organically evolved cultural landscape consists of a tea ...
The World Heritage Committee,
Having examined Documents WHC/23/45.COM/8B and WHC/23/45.COM/INF.8B1,
Inscribes Santiniketan, India, on the World Heritage List on the basis of criteria (iv) and (vi);
Adopts the following Statement of Outstanding Universal Value:
Brief synthesis
Established in rural West Bengal in 1901 by the renowned poet and philosopher, Rabindranath Tagore, Santiniketan was a residential school and centre for art based on ancient Indian traditions and on a vision of the unity of humanity transcending religious and cultural boundaries. Santiniketan is an embodiment ...
Sites: Santiniketan
The World Heritage Committee,
Having examined Documents WHC/23/45.COM/8B and WHC/23/45.COM/INF.8B1,
Inscribes The Persian Caravanserai, Islamic Republic of Iran, excluding the component parts Yām and Mādar Shāh, on the World Heritage List on the basis of criteria (ii) and (iii);
Takes note of the following provisional Statement of Outstanding Universal Value:
Brief synthesis
The Persian caravanserai is a collection of 54 caravansaries selected among numerous historical caravanserais based on typology, climate zones the ancient network of roads, which is an outstanding evidence ...
Sites: The Persian Caravanserai
The World Heritage Committee,
Having examined Documents WHC/23/45.COM/8B and WHC/23/45.COM/INF.8B1,
Inscribes the Gaya Tumuli, Republic of Korea, on the World Heritage List on the basis of criterion (iii);
Adopts the following Statement of Outstanding Universal Value:
Brief synthesis
The Gaya Tumuli are a serial property consisting of seven cemeteries created by members of the Gaya Confederacy, an ancient collection of several polities that persisted from the 1st through the mid-6th centuries CE in the southern section of the Korean Peninsula. The seven cemeteries are the ...
Sites: Gaya Tumuli
The World Heritage Committee,
Having examined Documents WHC/23/45.COM/8B and WHC/23/45.COM/INF.8B1,
Inscribes the Silk Roads: Zarafshan-Karakum Corridor, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan, on the World Heritage List on the basis of criteria (ii), (iii) and (v);
Adopts the following Statement of Outstanding Universal Value:
Brief synthesis
The Zarafshan-Karakum Corridor is one of the key sections of the Silk Roads in Central Asia that connects other corridors from all directions. Comprising thirty-four component parts located in rugged mountains, fertile river valleys, and ...
The World Heritage Committee,
Having examined Documents WHC/23/45.COM/8B and WHC/23/45.COM/INF.8B1,
Inscribes the Deer Stone Monuments and Related Sites of Bronze Age, Mongolia, on the World Heritage List on the basis of criteria (i) and (iii);
Adopts the following Statement of Outstanding Universal Value:
Brief synthesis
The Deer Stone Monuments and Related Sites are significant and striking examples associated with the Late Bronze Age culture of Eurasian nomadic peoples. Deer stone monuments dated from approximately 1200 to 600 BCE. They are almost always located within complexes ...
The World Heritage Committee,
Having examined Documents WHC/23/45.COM/8B and WHC/23/45.COM/INF.8B1,
Inscribes Tr’ondëk-Klondike, Canada, on the World Heritage List on the basis of criterion (iv);
Adopts the following Statement of Outstanding Universal Value:
Brief synthesis
Tr’ondëk-Klondike is located in the homeland of the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in, in north-western Canada. It is a serial property that includes eight component parts: Fort Reliance; Ch’ëdähdëk (Forty Mile); Ch’ëdähdëk Tth’än K’et (Dënezhu Graveyard); Fort Cudahy and Fort Constantine; Tr’ochëk; Dawson City; Jëjik Dhä ...
Sites: Tr’ondëk-Klondike
The World Heritage Committee,
Having examined Documents WHC/23/45.COM/8B and WHC/23/45.COM/INF.8B1,
Inscribes the Viking-Age Ring Fortresses, Denmark, on the World Heritage List on the basis of criteria (iii) and (iv);
Adopts the following Statement of Outstanding Universal Value:
Brief synthesis
The ring fortresses of Aggersborg, Fyrkat, Nonnebakken, Trelleborg and Borgring, constructed between about 970 and 980 CE during the reign of King Harald ‘Bluetooth’ Gormsson, represent outstanding examples and technological mastery of military architecture. Strategically positioned close ...
Sites: Viking-Age Ring Fortresses
The World Heritage Committee,
Having examined Documents WHC/23/45.COM/8B and WHC/23/45.COM/INF.8B1,
Inscribes the Jewish-Medieval Heritage of Erfurt, Germany, on the World Heritage List on the basis of criterion (iv);
Adopts the following Statement of Outstanding Universal Value:
Brief synthesis
Located in the heart of the Old Town of Erfurt in Thuringia, the Jewish-Medieval Heritage of Erfurt comprises the Old Synagogue, the Mikveh and the Stone House, which are rare and exceptionally preserved examples of Central European Jewish buildings that illustrate, in their built fabric, ...
The World Heritage Committee,
Having examined Documents WHC/23/45.COM/8B and WHC/23/45.COM/INF.8B1,
Inscribes the Old town of Kuldīga, Latvia, on the World Heritage List on the basis of criterion (v);
Adopts the following Statement of Outstanding Universal Value:
Brief synthesis
Located in the western part of Latvia, in the central Kurzeme (Courland) region, the town of Kuldīga is an exceptionally well-preserved example of a traditional urban settlement. At the confluence of the Venta River and the smaller Alekšupīte stream, the beginnings of Kuldīga, which was called Goldingen ...
Sites: Old town of Kuldīga
The World Heritage Committee,
Having examined Documents WHC/23/45.COM/8B and WHC/23/45.COM/INF.8B1,
Inscribes Modernist Kaunas: Architecture of Optimism, 1919-1939, Lithuania, on the World Heritage List on the basis of criterion (iv);
Takes note of the following provisional Statement of Outstanding Universal Value:
Brief synthesis
Modernist Kaunas is situated in central Lithuania, at the confluence of two major rivers: the Nemunas and the Neris. The area within the nominated property was planned in the mid-19th century and developed in 1919–1939 when, after the declaration of an ...
The nomination of The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Head Office and Garden, Portugal, was withdrawn at the request of the State Party.
The World Heritage Committee,
Having examined Documents WHC/23/45.COM/8B and WHC/23/45.COM/INF.8B1,
Defers the examination of the nomination of the Historic Centre of Gorokhovets, Russian Federation, in order to allow the State Party, with the advice of ICOMOS and the World Heritage Centre, if requested, to:
Develop coherent argumentation for the justification for inscription of the nominated property in order to demonstrate how or in which way the architectural monuments and/or the urban landscape of the historic centre of Gorokhovets stand out in illustrating a particular ...
The World Heritage Committee,
Having examined Documents WHC/23/45.COM/8B and WHC/23/45.COM/INF.8B1,
Inscribes Gordion, Türkiye, on the World Heritage List on the basis of criterion (iii);
Adopts the following Statement of Outstanding Universal Value:
Brief synthesis
The archaeological site of Gordion ranks as one of the most important historical centres in the ancient Near East. Gordion lies approximately ninety kilometres south-west of Ankara in central Türkiye, at the intersection of the great empires to the east (Assyrians, Babylonians, Hittites) and the west (Greeks, Romans). ...
Sites: Gordion
The World Heritage Committee,
Having examined Documents WHC/23/45.COM/8B and WHC/23/45.COM/INF.8B1,
Inscribes Žatec and the Landscape of Saaz Hops, Czechia, on the World Heritage List as a cultural landscape on the basis of criteria (iii), (iv) and (v);
Adopts the following Statement of Outstanding Universal Value:
Brief synthesis
Žatec and the Landscape of Saaz Hops is situated in the north-western part of Czechia in a location that provides ideal conditions for growing hops, a central aromatic ingredient in beer production. It consists of two component parts that together ...
The World Heritage Committee,
Having examined Documents WHC/23/45.COM/8B and WHC/23/45.COM/INF.8B1,
Inscribes Talayotic Menorca - A cyclopean island odyssey, Spain, on the World Heritage List on the basis of criteria (iii) and (iv);
Adopts the following Statement of Outstanding Universal Value:
Brief synthesis
Located on the Island of Menorca, the second largest of the Balearic Islands in the western Mediterranean Sea, a series of nine component parts in the Migjorn and Tramuntana regions of Menorca encompasses a dense assemblage of archaeological sites that feature cyclopean ...
Sites: Talayotic Menorca
The World Heritage Committee,
Having examined Documents WHC/23/45.COM/8B and WHC/23/45.COM/INF.8B1,
Inscribes the National Archaeological Park Tak’alik Ab’aj, Guatemala, on the World Heritage List on the basis of criteria (ii) and (iii);
Takes note of the following provisional Statement of Outstanding Universal Value:
Brief synthesis
Tak'alik Ab'aj is an archaeological site located in the piedmont of the Pacific Coast of Guatemala. Its 1,700-year history spans the years from 800 B.C.E. to 900 C.E. The first half of that period saw the transition from the Olmec civilization to the ...
The World Heritage Committee,
Having examined Documents WHC/23/45.COM/8B and WHC/23/45.COM/INF.8B2,
Inscribes Nyungwe National Park, Rwanda on the World Heritage List on the basis of criterion (x);
Takes note of the following provisional Statement of Outstanding Universal Value:
Brief synthesis
The property is part of the Albertine Rift Ecoregion and of the Albertine Rift section of the Afro-montane Regional Centre of Endemism. With its 101,900 ha, it represents the second largest area of mountain forest in this exceptionally rich ecoregion. It covers an altitudinal gradient of ...
Sites: Nyungwe National Park
The World Heritage Committee,
Having examined Documents WHC/23/45.COM/8B and WHC/23/45.COM/INF.8B2,
Inscribes Bale Mountains National Park, Ethiopia, on the World Heritage List on the basis of criteria (vii) and (x);
Adopts the following Statement of Outstanding Universal Value:
Brief synthesis
Bale Mountains National Park (BMNP) boasts a spectacularly diverse landscape mosaic comprised of distinct ecosystems and habitats and associated biodiversity. The property covers an area of 215,000 hectares in the heart of the Bale-Arsi Massif in the south-eastern Ethiopian Highlands in ...
Sites: Bale Mountains National Park