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The Ugam-Chatkal State Biosphere Reserve covers more than 50,000 hectares across the Bostanliq, Akhangaran, and Parkent districts of Tashkent region, in the western Tian Shan…
This state reserve, created in 2022 on the recommendation of the Academies of Sciences of Uzbekistan and Karakalpakstan, protects a roughly 280,000-hectare stretch of the Ustyurt…
The Sultan Uvays-Baba complex, in the Beruni district of Karakalpakstan, is one of the most venerated shrine sites in the lower Amu Darya valley. It commemorates Uwais al-Qarani,…
Akpetki forms one of two sections of the Sudochie-Akpetki State Nature Reserve, a protected area spanning the Muynak, Kungirat, and Takhtakupyr districts of Karakalpakstan near…
This shrine complex stands at the eastern edge of the village of Shuvalan on the Absheron peninsula, a few kilometers from Mardakan, and is topped by a patterned dome in a style…
This building in Baku serves as a cultural and history center for the Azerbaijan Caspian Sea Shipping company, one of the country's oldest state-linked enterprises. Its main…
The Fatimeyi-Zahra Mosque stands in the Yeni Günəşli settlement of Baku's Surakhani district and is named after Fatima, daughter of the Prophet Muhammad. An earlier two-storey…
The Flag Museum in Beylagan was opened in November 2016 as part of a nationwide series of regional flag museums established across Azerbaijan to document the country's state…
The Gazanfar caves are a group of medieval cave dwellings cut into the southern slope of Gazanfar mountain near the village of Sundu in the Gobustan district of Azerbaijan. Known…
The Quba History and Local Studies Museum occupies a nineteenth-century building on what was once Ardabil Street, a house that belonged to Abbasgulu Bakikhanov, the Azerbaijani…
The Sheikh Bani Mausoleum stands in the Hazra necropolis near the village of Hazra in Azerbaijan's Qabala district, within a wooded medieval cemetery that once held seven domed…
The Sheikh Badraddin Mausoleum is one of four surviving tombs of the Hazra Mausoleum Complex, a cluster of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century funerary monuments set in a roughly…
The Sheikh Muhammad Mausoleum forms part of the Hazra Mausoleum Complex, a group of medieval funerary monuments standing in a forested cemetery near Hazra village in Azerbaijan's…
The Azerbaijan Udi Hearth is a historical and ethnographic park-museum in the village of Nij, in Azerbaijan's Qabala district, dedicated to the culture of the Udi people. Nij…
The Sheikh Mansur Mausoleum is one of four surviving tombs within the Hazra Mausoleum Complex, a group of fifteenth- to sixteenth-century funerary monuments in a medieval…
The Historic Centre of Sheki, inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2019, preserves the old town of Sheki in northern Azerbaijan together with its centerpiece, the…
The minaret of the Juma Mosque stands over the Friday mosque in Icherisheher, Baku's walled old city, and is one of the oldest surviving elements of the mosque complex. While the…
The János Thorma Museum in Kiskunhalas, Hungary, is named after the painter János Thorma, who was born in the town in 1870 and died in 1937. Thorma became a leading figure of the…
The István Türr Museum in Baja traces back to 1936, when a dedicated picture gallery was established in the town through the joint effort of collector Imre Oltványi in Budapest…
The Kecskemét Gallery occupies the Cifra Palace, an Art Nouveau building raised in 1902–1903 to the designs of architect Géza Márkus. After serving other civic functions for…
The Kanizsai Dorottya Museum in Mohács was established in 1923 and takes its name from Dorottya Kanizsai, the noblewoman remembered for organizing the burial of the dead after…
The Tettye Travertine Cave sits in the Tettye district on the edge of Pécs, formed over the last ten thousand years as mineral-rich spring water deposited layers of porous…
The Tettye Spring Cave is a separate karst cavity in the same Tettye travertine formation above Pécs that also contains the better-known Tettye Travertine show cave. Rather than…
The Hungarian Orthodox Clerical Art Museum in Miskolc occupies a modest late-Baroque building on Deák Ferenc Square that once served as the town's Greek school, built at the…