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Cathedral and Churches of Echmiatsin and the Archaeological Site of Zvartnots

Cultural World Heritage property in Armenia, inscribed in 2000 under criteria (ii), (iii).

Cathedral and Churches of Echmiatsin and the Archaeological Site of Zvartnots, Armenia
Photo: Vigen Hakhverdyan · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
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State Party
Armenia
Year of inscription
2000
Criteria
iiiii
What it is
group of structures or buildings
Component parts
5 (serial property)
Reference
WHC 1011 · Wikidata Q22026170

Why it is on the List

(ii)Shows a major exchange of ideas — in architecture, technology, art, town planning or landscape design — over time or across a cultural area.(iii)A unique or exceptional witness to a cultural tradition or a civilisation, living or vanished.
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