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OUV: "The Quseir Amra paintings constitute a unique artistic achievement in the Umayyad Period." and "an outstanding example of an Umayyad desert establishment."
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OUV: “outstanding example of 8th century town planning of the Umayyad caliphate” and “... an eminent testimony, precisely dated, of the Umayyad civilization.”
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Umayyad general Uqba ibn Nafi founded Kairouan
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Founded the Medina of Tunis and built the Great (Olive Tree) Mosque of Tunis
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The abandoned Caliphate City of Medina Azahara, being a new city planned and built as a state initiative, attests in an exceptional way to the Umayyad cultural and architectural civilization (OUV)
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The first Umayyad caliph, Muawiyah I (r. 661-680), regarded the coastal towns of the Levant as strategically important. Thus, he strengthened Acre's fortifications (wiki)
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Carried out restoration and fortification works in the seaport of Tyre.
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"the archaeological remains of Tell Umm el-‘Amr span more than four centuries, from the late Roman Empire to the Umayyad period" (WMF 2012)
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The nomination dossier mentions that in Umayyad times was a pilgrimage site for the three monotheistic religions (Judaism, Christianity and Islam)
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Caliphate of Córdoba, a spin off from the original Umayyads of Damascus - built Great Mosque of Córdoba
See archnet.org
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OUV: "there remain today extensive ruins of Nabataean, Roman, Byzantine and Umayyad buildings". The latter included Al-Omari Mosque: is an early Islamic-era mosque. The mosque's square minaret was one of the earliest examples of Umayyad-style minarets (wiki)
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Mixture of buildings including the Ummayad Mosque of Aleppo, built on the orders of the Ummayad caliphs
See en.wikipedia.org
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"The Outstanding Universal Value of the site resides in the extensive settlement of the Byzantine/Umayyad period." (unesco website)
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Built the Dome of the Rock and rebuilt the Al-Aqsa Mosque
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Fustat (now part of Old Cairo) became a regional center of Islam during the Umayyad period. It was where the Umayyad ruler, Marwan II, made his last stand against the Abbasids. (wiki)
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Umayyad capital, Great Mosque
