From the 13th century to the advent of the railway in the early 20th century, Safranbolu was an important caravan station ...
The square Mosque with its single great dome and four slender minarets, dominates the skyline of the former Ottoman capital of ...
This property is a serial nomination of eight component sites in the City of Bursa and the nearby village of Cumalıkızık, ...
This region of Anatolia was conquered by the Turks at the beginning of the 11th century. In 1228–29 Emir Ahmet Shah ...
The mausoleum of Antiochus I (69–34 B.C.), who reigned over Commagene, a kingdom founded north of Syria and the Euphrates after ...
Located on an escarpment of the Upper Tigres River Basin that is part of the so-called Fertile Crescent, the fortified city ...
Located in the Germuş mountains of south-eastern Anatolia, this property presents monumental round-oval and rectangular megalithic structures erected by hunter-gatherers in ...
Located on the outskirts of Sofia, Boyana Church consists of three buildings. The eastern church was built in the 10th century, ...
The waters flowing over the limestone and chalk have, over thousands of years, deposited travertine barriers, creating natural dams which in ...
The cultural landscape of Tokaj graphically demonstrates the long tradition of wine production in this region of low hills and river ...
The cultural landscape of the Hortobágy Puszta consists of a vast area of plains and wetlands in eastern Hungary. Traditional forms ...
The variety of formations and the fact that they are concentrated in a restricted area means that the 712 caves currently ...
The colony of Augusta Emerita, which became present-day Mérida in Estremadura, was founded in 25 B.C. at the end of the ...
The Caliphate city of Medina Azahara is an archaeological site of a city built in the mid-10th century CE by the Umayyad ...
Cordoba's period of greatest glory began in the 8th century after the Moorish conquest, when some 300 mosques and innumerable palaces ...
Doñana National Park in Andalusia occupies the right bank of the Guadalquivir river at its estuary on the Atlantic Ocean. It ...
Together these three buildings form a remarkable monumental complex in the heart of Seville. The cathedral and the Alcázar – dating ...
The urban morphology of the two small cities of Úbeda and Baeza in southern Spain dates back to the Moorish 9th ...
Rising above the modern lower town, the Alhambra and the Albaycín, situated on two adjacent hills, form the medieval part of ...
Essaouira is an exceptional example of a late-18th-century fortified town, built according to the principles of contemporary European military architecture in ...
The ksar, a group of earthen buildings surrounded by high walls, is a traditional pre-Saharan habitat. The houses crowd together within ...
Founded in 1070–72 by the Almoravids, Marrakesh remained a political, economic and cultural centre for a long period. Its influence was ...
The Portuguese fortification of Mazagan, now part of the city of El Jadida, 90-km southwest of Casablanca, was built as a ...