World Heritage in Jordan

Al-Maghtas Petra Qasr Amra Umm ar-rasas Wadi Rum

World Heritage in Jordan.

The world heritage in Jordan includes (as of 2018) five UNESCO world heritage sites , including four world heritage sites and one mixed cultural and natural heritage site. Jordan joined the World Heritage Convention in 1975, the first two World Heritage Sites were registered in 1985. As the last world heritage site in Jordan to date, the cultural world heritage site for baptism “Bethanien Beyond the Jordan” was added to the world heritage list.

World heritage sites

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

 Map with all coordinates of World Heritage Sites: OSM

image	designation	year	Type	Ref.	description
Rock tomb Ad Deir (further pictures)	Rock necropolis and ruins of Petra ( location )	1985	K	326	abandoned rock city, in the ancient capital of the Nabataean Empire .
(more pictures)	Q'useir Amra desert castle ( location )	1985	K	327	Hunting lodge from the early eighth century about 70 km east of Amman in the Jordanian desert
(more pictures)	Um er-Rasas archaeological site (Kastron Mefa'a) ( location )	2004	K	1093	archaeological site with ruins from the end of the 3rd to the 9th century around 70 km south of Amman
(more pictures)	Wadi Rum Conservation Area ( location )	2011	K / N	1377
(more pictures)	Baptism site "Bethany Beyond the Jordan" (Al-Maghtas) ( location )	2015	K	1446

Tentative list

The sites that are intended for nomination for inclusion in the World Heritage List are entered in the tentative list .

Current World Heritage candidates

As of 2019, 15 sites are entered in the tentative list of Jordan, the last entry was in 2019. The following table lists the sites in chronological order according to the year of their inclusion in the tentative list or the last revision of the proposal.

 Map with all coordinates of current World Heritage candidates: OSM

image	designation	year	Type	Ref.	description
	Al-Qastal	2001	K	1550
(more pictures)	Lot sanctuary ( location )	2001	K	1551	in Deir Ain Abata
	The Montreal Crusader Castle	2001	K	1552
(more pictures)	Qasr Bshir	2001	K	1553	Remains of a Roman border fort built at the turn of the 3rd and 4th centuries. The almost square building with a side length of about 55 m is located about 80 km south of Amman.
(more pictures)	Pella (today's Tabaqat Fahil) ( location )	2001	K	1554
(more pictures)	Qasr Mshatta	2001	K	1555
	City of Abila (today's Qweilbeh)	2001	K	1557
	Gadara (today's Umm Qais)	2001	K	1558
	Archaeological city of Jerash (ancient meeting place of the west and east)	2004	K	1856
	Dana Biosphere Reserve	2007	K / N	5155
(more pictures)	Azraq	2007	K / N	5156
(more pictures)	Wadi Mujib nature reserve	2007	K / N	5158
Archaeological Museum	Arab eclecticism - founding and developing an architecture school in the city of As-Salt (1860–1925)	2015	K	6012	Buildings of a local architecture school founded by the architect Abdel-Rahman Aqruq in the city of Salt from the period from 1870 to 1920, which combined neo-Gothic and neoclassical elements with the Arab building tradition. Replacement for the proposal "Old Town of Salt" (Ref. 1855 )
(more pictures)	Umm al-Jimal ( location )	2018	K	6335	More detailed elaboration of the 2001 proposal.
	The Jordanian Al-Harrah Desert ( location )	2019	K	6425	Rock paintings and inscriptions

Former World Heritage candidates

These sites were previously on the tentative list, but were withdrawn or rejected by UNESCO. Sites that are included in other entries on the tentative list or that are part of world heritage sites are not taken into account here.

image	designation	year	Type	Ref.	description
	Kerak	1985-1985	K	5158
	Old town of Salt	2004-2015	K	1855	Historic center of the city of Salt 2015 replaced by the proposal "Arab eclecticism - founding and developing an architecture school in the city of As-Salt (1860–1925)" (Ref. 6012 )

Old city and city walls of Jerusalem

Old City of Jerusalem

The Old City of Jerusalem in East Jerusalem , annexed by Jordan in 1950 and Israel in 1980 , which is also claimed by the Palestinian Territories , had been proposed by Jordan for inclusion in UNESCO World Heritage. In 1981 it was added to the World Heritage List as a World Heritage Site under the name Old City and City Walls of Jerusalem , although it was emphasized that this decision in no way implied Jerusalem's affiliation to a specific state. The world heritage site is not assigned to a state, but entered separately in the world heritage list under "Jerusalem (on the proposal of Jordan)". In 1982, again at the suggestion of Jordan, it was put on the Red List of World Heritage in Danger.

Web links

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

• Jordan on the UNESCO World Heritage Center website.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jordan. In: whc.unesco.org. UNESCO World Heritage Center, accessed June 17, 2017 . 
2. ^ Tentative list of Jordan. In: whc.unesco.org. UNESCO World Heritage Center, accessed September 12, 2019 . 
3. ^ Former Tentative Sites of Jordan. In: World Heritage Site. Accessed June 17, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Old City of Jerusalem and its Walls. In: whc.unesco.org. UNESCO World Heritage Center, accessed March 10, 2018 . 

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