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There are several UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Algeria including Al Qal ' a of Beni Hammad, the first capital of the Hammadid empire ; Tipasa, a Phoenician and later Roman town ; and Djémila and Timgad, both Roman ruins ; M ' Zab Valley, a limestone valley containing a large urbanized oasis ; also the Casbah of Algiers is an important citadel.
UNESCO inscribed Ibsen's autographed manuscripts of A Doll's House on the Memory of the World Register in 2001, in recognition of their historical value.
The Museum Island in the River Spree houses five museums built from 1830 to 1930 and is a UNESCO World Heritage site.
The historic part of the city is on the UNESCO World Heritage List as " an outstanding urban and architectural ensemble " of the 18th century.
Particularly renowned are the architectural works of Antoni Gaudí and Lluís Domènech i Montaner, which have been designated UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
Generally regarded as Sweden's oldest town, Birka ( along with Hovgården ) has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1993.
Mousa, Old Scatness and Jarlshof: The Crucible of Iron Age Shetland is a combination of three broch sites in Shetland that are on the United Kingdom " Tentative List " of possible nominations for the UNESCO World Heritage Programme list of sites of outstanding cultural or natural importance to the common heritage of humankind.
Liverpool Maritime Mercantile City is a UNESCO World Heritage Site near the centre of Liverpool, England, where a system of intertwining waterways and docks is now being developed for mainly residential and leisure use.
Three specific UNESCO World Heritage sites at Gochang, Hwasun and Ganghwa by themselves account for over 1, 000 dolmen.
The largest of these, the World Esperanto Association, has an official consultative relationship with the United Nations and UNESCO, which recognized Esperanto as a medium for international understanding in 1954.
The beguinages, as well as the belfry and adjacent cloth hall, were recognized by UNESCO as World Heritage Sites in 1998 and 1999.
One of the principal members of the Dutch artistic movement called De Stijl, Rietveld is famous for his Red and Blue Chair and for the Rietveld Schröder House, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
In 2007, the Hudson's Bay Company Archives became part of the United Nations " Memory of the World " project, under UNESCO.
UNESCO and Heritage
On November 16, 2010 UNESCO declared flamenco one of the Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity.
A traditional farmhouse built in the 1810s in Hälsingland, Sweden, painted i traditional Falu red, part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland
The rediscovered Greek city of Buthrotum () ( modern-day Butrint ), a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is probably more significant today than it was when Julius Caesar used it as a provisions depot for his troops during his campaigns in the 1st century BC.
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* International Computation Centre, in Rome, Italy, created by UNESCO in 1951, later transformed into the Intergovernmental Bureau for Informatics
Andorra is a full member of the United Nations ( UN ), United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization ( UNESCO ), United Nations Conference on Trade and Development ( UNCTAD ), International Criminal Court ( ICC ), International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property ( ICCROM ), International Telecommunications Union ( ITU ), International Red Cross, Universal Copyright Convention, Council of Europe, EUTELSAT, World Tourism Organization, Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe ( OSCE ), Customs Cooperation Council ( CCC ), and Interpol.
In 1972, ICOMOS was named by the UNESCO World Heritage Convention as one of the three formal advisory bodies to the World Heritage Committee, along with the World Conservation Union ( IUCN ) and the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property ( ICCROM ).
It advises the UNESCO World Heritage Centre on requests for technical assistance received from States that are party to ( i. e. have ratified ) the World Heritage Convention.
The International Centre is an intergovernmental organization created in 1974 through an agreement between UNESCO and the French government.
In 2005, they were officially enlisted as part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site Historic Centre of Macau.
The Centre for the Public Awareness of Science ( CPAS ) is a UNESCO Centre, which engages with science communication and communicators in the Pacific region and beyond.
It is intended to increase science awareness in the Australian community and to improve communication skills of scientists .” In 2000, it was designated as the first UNESCO Centre for Science Communication.
In 2001, the foundation of the UICEE Centre for Problem Based Learning ( UCPBL ) paid recognition to Aalborg University, which subsequently led to the appointment of AAU as UNESCO Chair in problem-based learning.
The Biological Research Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, which was built with the help of UNESCO funds, has also been a considerable source of advanced research.
It initially opened in 1924, and in 1948 the Library was made a branch of the National Diet Library as result of the financial fallout from World War II, and in 1961 was made a UNESCO affiliated organisation as the Centre for East Asian Cultural Studies.
* The Weizmann Institute of Science, partners under the International Centre for Cooperation in Bioinformatics, sponsored by UNESCO and supported by DBT, Govt.
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