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

Understand

the Aug 13, 1975, the Syria accepted the convention for the protection of the world cultural and natural heritage. The Syria is referred to as the Syrian Arab Republic by UNESCO. The first of the seven major Syrian protected sites was inscribed and classified in 1979 and the last in 2011.

In recent years, the country has also submitted to the Tentative List of World Heritage, twelve other sites of high cultural value.

Since June 20, 2013, and following the ongoing civil war, the seven classified and highly threatened Syrian sites were urgently placed on the List of World Heritage in Danger.

Listing

Site	Type	Criterion	Description	Drawing
36.23337.1671 Ancient city of Aleppo	Cultural	(iii), (iv)	At the crossroads of several trade routes since the IIe millennium BC AD, Aleppo has successively suffered the domination of the Hittites, Assyrians, Arabs, Mongols, Mamluks and Ottomans. Its 13th century citadele century, its 12th century Great Mosquee century and several 17th century medersa, palaces, caravanserais and hammams give Aleppo's urban fabric a harmonious and unique character, now threatened by overpopulation.	UNESCO sheet
32.51836.4822 Ancient town of Bosra	Cultural	(i), (iii), (vi)	Once the capital of the Roman province of Arabia and an important stopover on the old caravan route to Mecca, Bosra retains, enclosed in its thick walls, a magnificent Roman theater from the 2nd century, early Christian ruins and several mosques.	UNESCO sheet
33.51136.3063 Ancient city of Damascus	Cultural	(i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (vi)	Founded in the 3rd millennium BC. AD, it is one of the oldest towns in Middle East. In the Middle Ages, Damascus was the center of a flourishing cottage industry (sabers and lace). Among the 125 monuments from different periods of its history, the Great Mosque of the Umayyads of the VIIIe century, built on the site of an Assyrian sanctuary, is one of the most spectacular.	UNESCO sheet
Crac des Chevaliers and Qal'at Salah El-Din ​34.78236.2634 Crac des Chevaliers ​34.78236.2635 Qal'at Salah El-Din			These two castles illustrate the exchange of cultural influences and the development of military architecture in the Near East during the Crusades, XIe to XIIIe centuries. The Crac des Chevaliers was built by the Order of the Hospitallers of Saint John of Jerusalem from 1142 to 1271. A second wave of work was carried out by the Mamluks at the end of the 13th century.e century. It is one of the best preserved Crusader castles. Although partially in ruins, the Qal'at Salah El-Din (Fortress of Saladin) is another remarkable example of this type of fortress, both in terms of the quality of the construction and the survival of the historical stratigraphy, with elements of the Byzantine period in the 10th century, the transformations carried out by the Franks at the end of the 12th century and the defenses added by the Ayyoubids (end of the 12th and 13th centuries).
34.55438.2676 Palmyra site	Cultural	(i), (ii), (iv)	Oasis of the Syrian desert north-east of Damascus, Palmyra is home to the monumental ruins of a large city that was one of the most important cultural centers of the ancient world. At the crossroads of several civilizations, the art and architecture of Palmyra united in the 1st and 2nd centuries Greco-Roman techniques with local traditions and Persian influences.	UNESCO sheet
36.33436.8447 Ancient villages of northern Syria	Cultural	(iii), (iv), (v)	Located in the north-west of Syria, some forty villages, grouped within eight parks, offer remarkable testimony to the rural and village lifestyles of late Antiquity and the Byzantine period. Abandoned during VIIIe ‑ Xe centuries, these villages, which date from Ier to VIIe centuries, offer a landscape and particularly well-preserved remains: residential houses, pagan temples, churches, collective cisterns, thermal baths, etc. These relict cultural landscapes are an important illustration of the transition between the ancient pagan world of the Roman Empire and Byzantine Christianity. The remains testifying to hydraulic techniques, protective walls and Roman plots show us to what extent the inhabitants mastered agricultural production.	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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