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| | UNESCO Updates World Heritage List |
 | | The annotated on-line list is searchable by name, country, region, category and date of addition to the list. |
 | | The church, baptistry, basilicas, public buildings, streets, monasteries, houses and workshops in this early Christian holy city were built over the tomb of the martyr Menas of Alexandria, who died in AD 296. |
 | | The ancient city of Ashur is located on the Tigris River in northern Mesopotamia in a specific geo-ecological zone, at the borderline between rain-fed and irrigation agriculture. |
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