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This article lists the sites registered with World Heritage in Albania.

Understand

Albania ratifies the Convention for the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage July 10, 1989. The first protected site was inscribed in 1992 during the 16^e session of the World Heritage Committee.

Albania has 2 sites inscribed on the World Heritage, both of cultural type.

The country has also submitted 3 sites to the tentative list, 2 cultural and 1 mixed.

Listing

The following sites are listed as World Heritage.

Site	Type	Criterion	Description	Drawing
39.75120.0261 Butrint	Cultural	(iii)	Inhabited since prehistoric times, the site of Butrint was successively the seat of a Greek colony, a Roman city, and then a bishopric. After a period of prosperity under the administration of Byzantium, then a brief Venetian occupation, the city was abandoned by its population at the end of the Middle Ages because of the presence of neighboring swamps. The current archaeological site is a conservatory of ruins representative of each period of the city's development.	UNESCO sheet
Historic centers of ​40.70666719.9522222 Berat ​40.07820.1483 Gjirokastër	Cultural	(iii), (iv)	Berat and Gjirokastra are listed as rare examples of an architectural style typical of the Ottoman period. Located in central Albania, Berat bears witness to the coexistence of different religious and cultural communities over the centuries. It includes a castle, locally called the Kala, most of which was built in the 13th century, although its origins date back to the 4th century BC. The citadel district has many Byzantine churches, including several from the 13th century, as well as several mosques built in the Ottoman era which began in 1417. Gjirokastra, in the valley of the Drinos river in southern Albania, includes a series of remarkable two-storey houses, which developed in the 17th century. The city also includes a bazaar, an 18th century mosque as well as two churches from the same period.	UNESCO sheet
Primary beech forests of the Carpathians and other parts of Europe	Natural	(ix)	The site is a transnational extension of the Primary Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Ancient Beech Forests of Germany (Slovakia, Ukraine and Germany) which now spans twelve countries. Since the end of the last Ice Age, the beech forests of Europe have rapidly spread from a few isolated refuges in the Alps, Carpathians, Mediterranean and Pyrenees in a few thousand years, a process which still continues. today. The successful expansion of beech is due to its flexibility and tolerance to different climatic, geographic and physical conditions.	UNESCO sheet
Criteria legend (i) Represent a masterpiece of human creative genius. (ii) To testify to a considerable exchange of influences during a given period or in a specific cultural area, on the development of architecture or technology, monumental arts, city planning or the creation of landscapes. (iii) To bring a unique or at least exceptional testimony to a cultural tradition or a living or disappeared civilization. (iv) To be an outstanding example of a type of building, architectural or technological ensemble or landscape which illustrates one or more significant periods in human history. (v) Be a prominent example of traditional human settlement, traditional use of land or sea. (vi) To be directly or materially associated with events or living traditions, ideas, beliefs or artistic and literary works of outstanding universal significance. (vii) Represent natural phenomena or areas of exceptional natural beauty and aesthetic importance. (viii) To be eminently representative examples of the great stages in the history of the Earth. (ix) To be eminently representative examples of ecological and biological processes underway in the evolution and development of ecosystems. (x) Contain the most representative natural habitats and the most important for conservation in situ of biological diversity.

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