Search results for "List of World Heritage Sites in Africa" - New World Encyclopedia
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- Mountain") mountains are the tallest in Southern Africa, rising at ... The mountains contain a diversity of habitats which protect a large ...17 KB (2,547 words) - 17:32, 30 January 2024
- Cyrene (Greek Κυρήνη, Kurene) was an ancient Greek colony in ... Cyrene became one of the great intellectual centers of the classical ...13 KB (1,919 words) - 18:50, 12 May 2020
- and commercially important small city in the Niger Inland Delta of south ... architecture, most notably the Great Mosque of Djenné, considered by many ...20 KB (2,929 words) - 16:28, 29 January 2024
- Goa Velha ("Velha" means old in Portuguese), referring to ... Evidence hints that Christians have been in India almost for as long as ...14 KB (2,118 words) - 03:56, 24 May 2024
- Petroglyphs are images created by removing part of a rock surfaces ... theories hold that they may have been a way of transmitting information, while ...25 KB (3,776 words) - 14:47, 28 March 2023
- ) sits in Southern Siberia in Russia, located between Irkutsk Oblast ... , Lake Baikal constitutes the deepest lake in the world, and the largest ...14 KB (2,082 words) - 05:36, 4 March 2023
- ) is the capital and largest city of the Tunisian Republic. It is ... by the Romans. It became the capital city of the Arab Aghlabid dynasty and ...17 KB (2,367 words) - 12:23, 18 April 2023
- ), denotes an archeological site located in Nong Han district, Udon ... Radiocarbon tests in the 1970s revised that date to 2100 B.C.E. to ...15 KB (2,139 words) - 03:25, 17 September 2023
- Kampala, the largest city of Uganda, became that nation's capital ... Beginning with the end of colonialism, Uganda had suffered an era ...19 KB (2,830 words) - 17:26, 14 May 2024
- Asmara, the capital of Eritrea, was born out of a union of four villages ... crime-free environment, and for being one of the cleanest cities of Africa ...18 KB (2,473 words) - 21:16, 30 January 2023
- The Brazilian Atlantic Islands of Fernando de Noronha and Atol das ... Located in the open ocean between the South American and African continents ...21 KB (2,904 words) - 17:27, 26 March 2024
- ) is a small archipelago of four islands and islets in the northwest ... south of the Arabian Peninsula, the archipelago is 250 kilometers ...22 KB (3,173 words) - 21:53, 30 January 2023
- Potosí is a city in southern Bolivia, 56 miles (90 km) southwest ... Potosí is a city deeply reflective of the pain of colonialism. From ...14 KB (2,123 words) - 05:55, 30 November 2022
- Byblos (Βύβλος)is the Greek name of the Phoenician city Gebal ... it was built by Cronus as the first city in Phoenicia. Today it is believed ...14 KB (1,996 words) - 19:08, 24 November 2023
- known as the Bharatpur Bird Sanctuary, in Rajasthan, India, has become ... has been endemic to wildlife environments in nations rapidly developing ...24 KB (3,401 words) - 03:29, 6 October 2022
- metal and jade-inlaid pot. Qianlong reign in the Qing dynasty of China ... archeology outside the United States) is one of the four sub-fields of anthropology ...28 KB (4,112 words) - 06:15, 12 August 2023
- [[Image:Stećak.jpg|thumb|250px|Radimlja necropolis of stećak in ... place. Apart from the occasional application of the word to modern cemeteries ...26 KB (3,983 words) - 04:27, 11 March 2023
- Zimbabwe, officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country ... Yet the nation is on the verge of collapse. Under the leadership of ...26 KB (3,749 words) - 06:06, 13 June 2023
- Madeira is an archipelago in the north Atlantic Ocean, and is one ... is considered to be the first discovery of the exploratory period initiated ...32 KB (4,286 words) - 10:48, 9 March 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
