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UNESCO Heritage Sites Near Mosque City of Bagerhat
The Historic Mosque City of Bagerhat (UNESCO 1985) was founded around 1459 CE by Khan Jahan Ali as Khalifatabad in the Sundarbans delta of…
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UNESCO Heritage Sites Near Ahmedabad, India
The Historic City of Ahmedabad (UNESCO 2017), founded in 1411 by Sultan Ahmad Shah I on the Sabarmati River in Gujarat, is India's first…
September 2026
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UNESCO Heritage Sites Near Dazu Rock Carvings
The Dazu Rock Carvings (UNESCO 1999), located 165 km west of Chongqing in Dazu County, comprise 50,000+ stone statues and 100,000 inscribed characters across…
September 2026
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UNESCO Sites Near Lijiang: Three Parallel Rivers and Chengjiang
Three Parallel Rivers is 207 km from Lijiang, Chengjiang 368 km. The nearest World Heritage sites, and what ICOMOS says of Lijiang's water, bridges…
September 2026
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UNESCO Heritage Sites Near Champaner-Pavagadh
Champaner-Pavagadh Archaeological Park (UNESCO 2004) combines 239 monuments across 52 sq km in Gujarat: the 8th–14th century Hindu and Jain shrines on the 900m…
September 2026
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UNESCO Heritage Sites Near Babylon, Iraq
Babylon, on the Euphrates 85 km south of Baghdad, was the capital of Nebuchadnezzar II's empire (605–562 BCE) — the site of the Ishtar…
September 2026
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UNESCO Heritage Sites Near Hegra, Saudi Arabia
Hegra (al-Hijr / Madâin Sâlih), Saudi Arabia's first UNESCO World Heritage Site (2008), preserves 131 Nabataean rock-cut monumental tombs from the 1st century BCE…
September 2026
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UNESCO Heritage Sites Near Island of Saint-Louis
Saint-Louis, inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2000, was founded in 1659 as the first French settlement in sub-Saharan West Africa and…
September 2026
Interwar Italy 1922–44
The EIAR Wartime Radio Advertising Sheet
Wartime sheet for the E.I.A.R., the state radio. Scan from the Stefano Vigolo collection. White horses leap across a night sky; beneath them a…
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