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Köneürgenç

Cultural World Heritage property in Turkmenistan, inscribed in 2005 under criteria (ii), (iii).

Köneürgenç, Turkmenistan
Photo: Doron · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
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State Party
Turkmenistan
Year of inscription
2005
Criteria
iiiii
Location
Köneürgenç District, Khanate of Khiva
What it is
city of Turkmenistan, archaeological site
Reference
WHC 1199 · Wikidata Q48472

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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