Search results for "List of World Heritage Sites in the Arab States" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • A UNESCO World Heritage Site is a specific site (such as a forest ... The program was founded with the Convention Concerning the Protection ...
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  • Cyrene (Greek Κυρήνη, Kurene) was an ancient Greek colony in ... Cyrene became one of the great intellectual centers of the classical ...
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  • Aleppo (Arabic Halab) is a city in northern Syria, the second largest ... Originating in the early second millennium B.C.E., Aleppo competes ...
    14 KB (2,080 words) - 05:11, 17 June 2023
  • ) is the capital and largest city of the Tunisian Republic. It is ... Tunis was founded by Berbers during the second millennium B.C.E.. ...
    17 KB (2,367 words) - 12:23, 18 April 2023
  • Axum, or Aksum, is a city in northern Ethiopia named after the Kingdom ... The ancient African civilization of Axum flourished for over a thousand ...
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  • Founded perhaps as early as the tenth century, Timbuktu is an African ... Timbuktu was the center of significant written tradition on the African ...
    16 KB (2,417 words) - 23:36, 30 April 2023
  • ) is a small archipelago of four islands and islets in the northwest ... south of the Arabian Peninsula, the archipelago is 250 kilometers ...
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  • ), also spelled as Bukhoro and Bokhara, from the Soghdian βuxārak ... The region around Bukhara has been inhabited for at least five millennia ...
    20 KB (2,826 words) - 18:38, 22 November 2023
  • "petra-πέτρα," cleft in the rock in Greek; Arabic: ... The ancient city sits in the Negev Desert's Valley of Moses, ...
    24 KB (3,829 words) - 14:47, 28 March 2023
  • Orkhon Valley Cultural Landscape is seen along the banks of the Orkhon ... west from the capital Ulaanbaatar. The Orkhon Valley was the site ...
    26 KB (3,693 words) - 02:16, 18 November 2022
  • , also commonly known as al-Shām) is the capital and largest city ... Damascus was the capital of the Aramean Kingdom beginning in the eleventh ...
    36 KB (5,471 words) - 18:07, 24 January 2024
  • The Buddhas of Bamyan ( بت های باميان - but hay-e bamiyaan) were two monumental statues of standing Buddhas ...
    24 KB (3,495 words) - 18:33, 22 November 2023
  • The People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, commonly referred ... depth and has been subjected to a number of external influences and migrations ...
    34 KB (4,913 words) - 21:02, 20 July 2023
  • Kingston, the capital, the largest city, and chief port, of Jamaica ... Founded in 1693, under English rule, Kingston became the prosperous ...
    22 KB (3,252 words) - 23:13, 3 March 2023
  • Sicily is an autonomous region of Italy and the largest island in ... For much of its existence, Sicily has stood at a crossroads of international ...
    34 KB (5,061 words) - 14:33, 27 January 2023
  • The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, commonly called Jordan, is an Arab ... A young nation, Jordan occupies an area considered one of the 15 cradle ...
    51 KB (7,712 words) - 07:36, 27 February 2023
  • Qatar, officially the State of Qatar, is an emirate in the Middle ... The nation's traditions draw on its nomadic past and are centuries ...
    34 KB (4,939 words) - 21:09, 14 April 2023
  • Category:Archaeological sites {{Infobox World Heritage Site | WHS = Memphis and its Necropolis ...
    33 KB (5,140 words) - 03:38, 7 December 2022
  • Avignon is a commune in southern France with a population of 89,300 ... Founded by a Gallic tribe and later flourished under the Phoenicians ...
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  • Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic is a Middle Eastern country ... Considered one of the original "Cradle of Civilization" ...
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