New admission to the UNESCO cultural and natural heritage in 1979

In 1979 the following new admissions to the UNESCO cultural and natural heritage took place:

World heritage

At its third meeting from October 22 to 16, 1979 in Cairo and Luxor , Egypt , the World Heritage Committee added 45 sites from 18 countries to the UNESCO World Heritage List, including 34 cultural (K), ten natural (N ) and a mixed cultural and natural heritage site (K / N). For the first time, a cross-border World Heritage site was designated and another was placed on the Red List of World Heritage in Danger (R) .

World Heritage List

The following sites have been added to the World Heritage List:

Palace of the Fasilidas

Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp

Bialowieza forest area

Mont-Saint-Michel

Abu Simbel temples

Old town of Dubrovnik

Palace of Darios in Persepolis

Bay of Kotor

Contracting State	designation	Type	Ref.	Remarks
Egypt	Memphis with the city of the dead and pyramids	K	86
	Thebes and its necropolis	K	87
	Nubian monuments from Abu Simbel to Philae	K	88
	Islamic Cairo	K	89
	Abu Mena	K	90
Ethiopia	Fasil Ghebbi in the Gondar region	K	19th	Fortified city built in the 16th and 17th centuries as the residence of the Ethiopian Emperor Fasilidas
Bulgaria	Boyana Church	K	42
	Madara rider	K	43
	Thracian tomb of Kazanlak	K	44
	Ivanovo rock churches	K	45
France	Mont-Saint-Michel and its bay	K	80
	Chartres Cathedral	K	81
	Versailles Palace and Park	K	83
	Vézelay : abbey and city hill	K	84
	Vézère valley: sites and cave paintings	K	85
Ghana	Forts and castles of Ghana	K	34
Guatemala	Tikal National Park	K / N	64
	Antigua Guatemala	K	65
Iran	Chogha Zanbil	K	133
	Persepolis	K	114
	Meidan-e Shah of Isfahan	K	115
Italy	Rock carvings in Val Camonica	K	94
Yugoslavia (Croatia) (d)	Old town of Dubrovnik	K	95
Historical complex of Split with Diocletian's Palace	K	97
Plitvice Lakes National Park	N	98
Yugoslavia (Macedonia) (d)	Lake Ohrid (Yugoslav part)	N (e)	99
Yugoslavia (Montenegro) (d)	Natural and cultural-historical region of Kotor	K,  (R)	125	A bay steeped in history with historical places, including the medieval fortress town of Kotor , the picturesque town of Perast and the monastery island Sveti Đorđe
Yugoslavia (Serbia) (d)	Stari Ras and Sopoćani	K	96
Canada	Dinosaur Provincial Park	N	71
Nepal	Sagarmatha National Park	N	120
	Kathmandu Valley	K	121
Norway	Urnes stave church	K	58
	Bryggen (port city of Bergen )	K	59
Poland	Auschwitz concentration camp	K	31
	Białowieża National Park (a)	N	33
Syria	Old Damascus	K	20th
Tanzania	Ngorongoro Conservation Area	N (b)	39
Tunisia	Medina of Tunis	K	36
	Carthage ruins	K	37
	Amphitheater of El Djem	K	38
United States	Grand Canyon National Park	N	75
	Everglades National Park	N	76
	Independence Hall	K	78
Zaire (c)	Virunga National Park	N	63
transnational: Canada United States	Kluane and Wrangell-Saint-Elias national parks	N	72
(a)With the expansion to include extensive forest areas in Belarus in 1992, this natural heritage became the cross-border world heritage “Bialowieza Forest”. (b) Since the expansion in 2010, the “Ngorongoro Conservation Area” has also been recognized under cultural criteria. (c) Republic of Zaire was the name of the Democratic Republic of the Congo until 1997 (d) The world heritage sites registered for the federal state of Yugoslavia have been transferred to the former republics as successor states. (e) The Ohrid Lake was initially only registered as a natural heritage, only through the expansion in the following year did the mixed cultural and natural heritage of the Ohrid region arise.

The decision to enter the World Heritage List has been postponed for the following sites:

• Ichkeul National Park (Tunisia, N), was added a year later,
• Ruins of Paphos (Cyprus, K), was added a year later,
• Monastery complex San Salvatore / Santa Giulia (Italy, K), was only included in the list of world heritage sites in 2011 as part of the serial cultural heritage The Lombards in Italy, Places of Power .

Definitely rejected

• Zembra National Park and Zembretta Islands (Tunisia, N),
• Iles de la Madeleine (Senegal, N).

Red List

The Bay of Kotor was placed on the Red List at the request of the State Party of Yugoslavia. The Kotor region was badly affected by an earthquake in 1979.

Web links

• Report of the Rapporteur on the third Session of the World Heritage Committee. World Heritage Committee, November 30, 1979, accessed September 15, 2017 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ World Heritage List. German UNESCO Commission, accessed on September 16, 2017 (note on entry of the World Heritage site “Ngorongoro Protected Area”). 
2. ^ World Heritage List. UNESCO World Heritage Center, accessed September 16, 2017 (English, footnote 29). 
3. ↑ Ichkeul National Park / Parc national de l'Ichkeul on the website of the UNESCO World Heritage Center ( English and French ).
4. ↑ Paphos, Birthplace of Aphrodite / Paphos on the website of the UNESCO World Heritage Center ( English and French ).
5. ^ Longobards in Italy. Places of the Power (568-774 AD) / Les Lombards en Italie. Lieux de pouvoir (568-774 après J.-C.) on the UNESCO World Heritage Center website ( English and French ).
6. ↑ Decision: CONF 015 XI.19. UNESCO World Heritage Center, 1979, accessed September 16, 2017 .