Sites of the Silk Road in Kyrgyzstan

Tash Rabat caravanserai on the Silk Road in Kyrgyzstan

Sites of the Silk Road in Kyrgyzstan is the title of a proposal for UNESCO World Heritage that Kyrgyzstan put on its tentative list in 2010 . The proposal includes various sites along the Kyrgyzstan sections of the Silk Road .

background

The Silk Road is a network of trade routes that in ancient times and the Middle Ages connected the Mediterranean area by land via Central Asia with East Asia , especially the Empire of China . The road network got its name from the fact that silk was exported from China to Europe.

Some of the routes on the back road ran through Kyrgyzstan. The main route came from the Ferghana Valley , crossed the Tian Shan Mountains near Osh and continued to Kashgar in the Tarim Basin . Another route ran from the Seven Rivers via Bishkek and along Lake Issyk Kul via the Tian Shan into the Tarim Basin.

registration

The serial proposal Sites of the Silk Road in Kyrgyzstan was entered on the tentative list of Kyrgyzstan in 2010 . The individual suggestions Schach Fasil , Burana-Turm and Ösgön , which had been on the tentative list since 2001 , were included in the serial proposal.

To justify the outstanding universal significance, the following is given:

The Silk Roads are ways of integration, exchange and dialogue between East and West, which have contributed significantly to the common prosperity of mankind for almost two millennia ... This especially between the 2nd century BC. BC and the end of the 16th century AD flourishing route network ... facilitated and created a reciprocal intercontinental trade with a dazzling variety of commodities ... This trade connected different civilizations, existed for centuries and was developed by a system of Caravanserais, trading settlements, trading towns and forts supported along its entire length of more than 10,000 km, making it arguably the longest cultural route in human history.

The aim is to be entered in the World Heritage List based on the World Heritage criteria ii, iii, iv, v and vi:

(ii): The Silk Roads exhibit outstanding interactions between human values.

(iii): The Silk Roads are an excellent example of trade and the diffusion of cultural traditions over long distances.

(iv): The Silk Roads are an outstanding example of the urban, architectural and technological ensembles that were necessary to sustain this trade and exchange for nearly two millennia.

(v): The Silk Roads are an extraordinary testimony to the interactions between humans and the environment.

(vi): The Silk Roads are directly and tangibly linked to historical and living traditions, beliefs and value systems.

Sites

The proposed sites are divided into six groups according to their location.

No.	designation	area	Single sites	surface	image
1	Nomadic monuments of Inner Tian Shan	Naryn area	Koshoi Korgon ( location )41.123725 75.698097	55.6 ha
			Tash Rabat ( location )40.8224 75.2888	28.5 ha	more pictures
			Manakeldy ( location )41.070209 74.260871	31.8 ha
			Shyrdakbek ( location )42.162722 75.838861	38.3 ha
2	Sites of southern Issyk Kul	Issyk Kul region	Barskoon ( location )42.09254 77.594543	6.7 ha
			Tosor ( location )42.16835 77.434574	9 ha
			Khan Dobo ( location )42.159484 77.033194	30 ha
3	Medieval sites in the upper Tschüi valley	Tschüi area	Nawekat ( Krasnaya Retschka ) ( location )42.914982 75.011446	450 ha	more pictures
			Sujab ( Ak-Beschim ) ( location )42.805222 75.199889	150 ha
			Balasagun ( Burana ) ( location )42.74759 75.248425	130 ha	more pictures
4th	Manas Ordo cultural landscape	Talas area	Karool Choku ( location )42.525 72.3824	225 ha
5	Safid Bulan's cultural landscape	Jalalabat region	Schach-Fasil-Mausoleum ( location )41.428746 71.659094	266.5 ha
6th	Sites of Ösgön and Shorobashat	Osh region	Ösgön ( location )40.7682 73.2992	72.5 ha	more pictures
6th	Sites of Ösgön and Shorobashat	Osh region	Shorobashat ( location )40.840239 73.270356	70 ha

World Heritage

Due to the large number of sites that various countries had put on their tentative lists in connection with the Silk Road , the World Heritage Committee proposed that they be grouped according to individual routes. The People's Republic of China , Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan then worked together on a proposal for a serial transnational World Heritage Site, which was added to the World Heritage List in 2014 under the title Silk Roads: The Road Network of the Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor . From Kyrgyzstan, these include the three sites in the upper Tschüi valley: Sujab , Balasagun and Nawekat .

Web links

Silk Roads Sites in Kyrgyzstan on the UNESCO World Heritage Center website for tentative lists.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Silk Roads Sites in Kyrgyzstan. In: whc.unesco.org. UNESCO World Heritage Center, accessed October 13, 2019 .
^ Tentative list of Kyrgyzstan. In: whc.unesco.org. UNESCO World Heritage Center, archived from the original on February 26, 2007 ; accessed on February 9, 2019 .
^ Silk Roads: Initial Section of the Silk Roads, the Routes Network of Tian-shan Corridor . Cultural Heritage Nominated by People's Republic of China, Republic of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic. January 2013 (5714 pp., Unesco.org [PDF; 1000 kB ]).
^ Silk Roads: the Routes Network of Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor. In: whc.unesco.org. UNESCO World Heritage Center, accessed February 6, 2019 .

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[whc-1] Silk Roads Sites in Kyrgyzstan. In: whc.unesco.org. UNESCO World Heritage Center, accessed October 13, 2019 .

[2] Tentative list of Kyrgyzstan. In: whc.unesco.org. UNESCO World Heritage Center, archived from the original on February 26, 2007 ; accessed on February 9, 2019 .

[3] Silk Roads: Initial Section of the Silk Roads, the Routes Network of Tian-shan Corridor . Cultural Heritage Nominated by People's Republic of China, Republic of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic. January 2013 (5714 pp., Unesco.org [PDF; 1000 kB ]).

[4] Silk Roads: the Routes Network of Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor. In: whc.unesco.org. UNESCO World Heritage Center, accessed February 6, 2019 .