World Heritage in Oman
For World Heritage in Oman has five World Heritage sites , all five cultural heritage sites are. Oman acceded to the World Heritage Convention in 1981. The first World Heritage Site was registered in 1987, the last to date in 2018. In 2007 one site was removed from the World Heritage List.
World heritage sites
Current world heritage sites
The following table lists the UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Oman 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 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Bahla Fortress ( location ) |
1987 | K | 433 | ||
Archaeological sites of Bat, al-Chutm and al-Ain | 1988 | K | 434 | Bat fortress with the Bronze Age settlement al-Chutm and necropolis al-Ain | |
Land of incense | 2000 | K | 1010 | 4 sites in Dhofar Governorate : the archaeological sites of Khor Rori , Al-Baleed and Shisr and the incense park of Wadi Dawkah
In 2000 included in the World Heritage under the name "The Incense Route", renamed "Land of Incense" in 2005 |
|
Afladsch irrigation system | 2006 | K | 1207 | ||
Qalhat ancient city | 2018 | K | 1537 | Qalhat was a major trading center for trade between the Arabian Peninsula, India, and eastern Asia. It is also an outstanding example of a city in the Principality of Hormuz . Many ruins still bear witness to its former importance. The city lost its importance after the destruction in 1508 by Portuguese colonizers under Afonso de Albuquerque |
Sites marked as World Heritage
image | designation | year | Type | Ref. | description |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
( location ) |
1994-2007 | N | 654 | The site included an Arabian oryx reintroduction area . UNESCO removed this area from the World Heritage List on June 28, 2007, as the government of Oman had decided to reduce the size of the protected area by 90 percent and the population of the Arabian oryx had declined sharply. It was the first deletion of a world heritage from the UNESCO list. |
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
Currently (2018) seven sites are entered in the tentative list of Oman, the last entry was made in 2014. The following table lists the sites in chronological order according to the year of their inclusion in the tentative list.
Map with all coordinates of World Heritage candidates: OSM
image | designation | year | Type | Ref. | description |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
The forts of Rustaq and Al-Hazm | 1988 | K | 497 | Fortresses in the cities of Rustaq and Al-Hazm | |
Ḥallāniyyāt Islands Nature Reserve | 2013 | N | 5832 | ||
Bar al Hikman nature reserve | 2013 | N | 5833 | ||
Jebel Shams nature reserve | 2013 | N | 5834 | ||
Al-Dimaniyyat Islands Nature Reserve | 2013 | N | 5839 | ||
Ras al-Hadd turtle reserve and the Ras al-Jinz heritage site | 2013 | K / N | 5840 | comprises a coastal strip at Ras al-Hadd and Ras al-Jinz with breeding grounds for sea turtles and archaeological sites | |
Cultural landscape of Bisya and Salut and their archaeological remains | 2014 | K | Surroundings of the city of Bisya and the Salut plain with archaeological sites from the Bronze and Iron Ages. |
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.
Map with all coordinates of former World Heritage candidates: OSM
image | designation | year | Type | Ref. | description |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sur al-Luwatiya, the historic center of Matrah | 1987-1987 | K | 432 | In 1987 rejected by the World Heritage Committee |
Web links
- Oman on the UNESCO World Heritage Center website.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Oman. In: whc.unesco.org. UNESCO World Heritage Center, accessed May 29, 2017 .
- ↑ Wildlife reserve in Oman loses World Heritage status
- ^ Oman's Arabian Oryx Sanctuary: first site ever to be deleted from UNESCO's World Heritage List
- ^ Tentative list of Oman. In: whc.unesco.org. UNESCO World Heritage Center, accessed May 29, 2017 .
- ^ Former Tentative Sites of Oman. In: World Heritage Site. Retrieved June 20, 2017 (English).