Silk Roads: Zarafshan-Karakum Corridor
Silk Roads: Zarafshan-Karakum Corridor is part of the Tentative list of Tajikistan in order to qualify for inclusion in the World Heritage List.
Silk Roads: Zarafshan-Karakum Corridor is a serial transnational nomination with 31 components in Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan representing one on the main corridor of the Silk Road, passing through Samarkand and Bukhara. Tajikistan has 9 sites, two of them on the TL on their own right. All Tajik sites are located in the Zarafshan valley which is a wide terraced loess valley getting It includes remains of settlements, ancient cities, forts protecting the Road and an irrigation system most of them from the 8th century.
Map of Silk Roads: Zarafshan-Karakum Corridor
Load mapThe coordinates shown for all tentative sites were produced as a community effort. They are not official and may change on inscription.
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Site Info
- Full Name
- Silk Roads: Zarafshan-Karakum Corridor
- Country
- Tajikistan
- Added
- 2021
- Nominated for
- 2022
- Type
- Cultural
- Categories
- Human activity - Transport and Trade
- Link
- By ID