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Merv

Cultural World Heritage property in Turkmenistan, inscribed in 1999 under criteria (ii), (iii).

Merv, Turkmenistan
Photo: Hans Birger Nilsen · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
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State Party
Turkmenistan
Year of inscription
1999
Criteria
iiiii
Area of property
353 ha
Location
Mary Region, oblast de Mary
What it is
archaeological site, ancient city
Reference
WHC 886 · Wikidata Q193325

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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Straight-line distance between the recorded coordinates.

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