World Heritage in Iraq

The World Heritage in Iraq (as of 2019) includes six UNESCO World Heritage Sites , including five World Heritage Sites and one mixed cultural and natural heritage site. The Iraq acceded to the World Heritage Convention in 1974, the first World Heritage site was inscribed on the World Heritage List 1985th The last World Heritage Site in Iraq to date was registered in 2016, and three sites are on the Red List of World Heritage in Danger .

World heritage sites

The following table lists the UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Iraq in chronological order according to the year of their inclusion on the World Heritage List (K - cultural heritage, N - natural heritage, K / N - mixed, (R) - on the Red List of World Heritage in Danger ).

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image	designation	year	Type	Ref.	description
	Hatra ( location )	1985	K (R)	277	In antiquity, Hatra was the capital of a Mesopotamian small principality under the control of the Parthian Empire and, due to its abundance of monuments, is one of the most significant sites of the Parthian era. At the beginning of March 2015, the terrorist organization Islamic State (IS) began the systematic destruction of Hatra.
	Ashur (Qal'at Sherqat) ( location )	2003	K (R)	1130	Excavations of a historic city in the north of what is now Iraq, which was founded in the 25th century BC.
	Archaeological city of Samarra ( location )	2007	K (R)	276	Ruins and archaeological sites of numerous caliph's palaces and other buildings, the most famous is the spiral minaret of the Great Mosque of Samarra
	Citadel of Erbil ( location )	2014	K	1437	The citadel is a fortified tell in the middle of the old town of Erbil . The citadel is said to be one of the longest continuously inhabited places in the world. Safe traces go back to the Copper Age.
	Al-Ahwar in southern Iraq: Protected area of ​​biodiversity and relict landscape of Mesopotamian cities	2016	K / N	1481	includes the Huwaizah Marsh , the Central Marshes, the East Hammar Marshes, the West Hammar Marshes, the archaeological sites of Uruk , Ur and Tell Eridu Ur was 2000-2016 an own suggestion on the tentative list (Ref. 1462 )
	Babylon	2019	K	278

Tentative list

The sites that are intended for nomination for inclusion in the World Heritage List are entered in the tentative list . As of 2020, twelve sites are entered in the tentative list of Iraq, the last entry was made in 2020. The following table lists the sites in chronological order according to the year they were included in the tentative list.

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image	designation	year	Type	Ref.	description
(more pictures)	Nimrud ( location )	2000	K	1463
(more pictures)	Ancient city of Nineveh ( location )	2000	K	1465
(more pictures)	Al-Uchaidar fortress ( location )	2000	K	1467
	Wasit	2000	K	1468	Archaeological site with the ruins of an early Islamic city
	Site of the Dhul-Kifl	2010	K	5497	Site in the city of Al Kifl with the tomb of the prophet Ezekiel ( Dhul-Kifl ) in the Al-Nukhailah mosque , a market and hostels
(more pictures)	Wadi as-Salam cemetery in Najaf	2011	K	5578	in Najaf
	Amediye city	2011	K / N
	Historic sites on the Tigris in Baghdad-Rusafa	2014	K		consists of eleven buildings on the east bank of the Tigris in the district Rusafa of Baghdad , extending between the Al-Mustansiriya University and the Abbasid Palace are
	Neolithic settlement Bestansur	2017	K
	Nippur	2017	K	6173
	Old town of Mosul	2018	K	6355
	Temple of Lalisch	2020	K	6467

Web links

Commons : World Heritage Sites in Iraq  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Iraq on the UNESCO World Heritage Center website.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Iraq. In: whc.unesco.org. UNESCO World Heritage Center, accessed June 16, 2017 . 
2. ↑ World cultural heritage blown up. Retrieved March 7, 2015 . 
3. ^ Tentative list of Iraq. In: whc.unesco.org. UNESCO World Heritage Center, accessed June 16, 2017 . 

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