Full Description
From the Taj Mahal to the Parthenon, from Gettysburg to Heidelberg, from Beacon Hill to Tower Hill, from the Great Wall to Hadrian's Wall, from Jerusalem to Kyoto, the International Dictionary of Historic Places presents some 1,000 comprehensive and fully illustrated histories of the most famous sites in the world. Entries include: location, description, and site office details; and a 3,000 to 4,000 word essay that provides a full history of the site and the condition of the site today. An annotated Further Reading list of books and articles about the site completes each entry.
Contents
1: ?gra (Uttar Pradesh, India); 2: Ahmad?bad (Gujar?t, India); 3: Aizu-Wakamatsu (Fukushima, Japan); 4: Ajanta (Mah?r?shtra, India); 5: Ajmer (R?jasth?n, India); 6: Amber (R?jasth?n, India); 7: Amritsar (Punjab, India); 8: Angkor (Siem Reap, Cambodia); 9: Anuradhapura (Sri Lanka); 10: Anyang (Henan, China); 11: Ayers Rock (Northern Territory, Australia); 12: Ayodhy? (Uttar Pradesh, India); 13: Ayutthaya (Ayutthaya, Thailand); 14: Bago (Myanmar); 15: Bali (Bali, Indonesia); 16: Balkh (Balkh, Afghanistan); 17: Ballarat (Victoria, Australia); 18: B?mi?n (B?mi?n, Afghanistan); 19: Ban Chiang (Udon Thani, Thailand); 20: Banda (Maluku, Indonesia); 21: Bangalore (Karn?taka, India); 22: Bangkok (Thailand); 23: Banten (West Java, Indonesia); 24: Beijing (China): Forbidden City; 25: Beijing (China): Tiananmen Square; 26: Bengkulu (Bengkulu, Indonesia); 27: Bhop?l (Madhya Pradesh, India); 28: Bhubaneswar (Orissa, India); 29: Bij?pur (Karn?taka, India); 30: B?kaner (R?jasthan, India); 31: Bishnupur (West Bengal, India); 32: Bodh Gay? (Bih?r, India); 33: Bombay (Mah?r?shtra, India); 34: Borobudur (Central Java, Indonesia); 35: Botany Bay (New South Wales, Australia); 36: Brunei Darussalam; 37: Bukhara (Bukhara, Uzbekistan); 38: Buxar (Bih?r, India); 39: Calcutta (West Bengal, India); 40: Cebu City (Cebu, Philippines); 41: Chiang Mai (Chiang Mai, Thailand); 42: Chittagong (Chittagong, Bangladesh); 43: Chittaurgarh (R?jasth?n, India); 44: Ch?nju (North Ch?lla, South Korea); 45: Colombo (Sri Lanka); 46: Corregidor Island (Cavite, Philippines); 47: Darwin (Northern Territory, Australia); 48: Datong (Shanxi, China); 49: Delhi (Delhi, India); 50: Dh?k? (Dh?k?, Bangladesh); 51: Dien Bien Phu (Vietnam); 52: Dunedin (South Island, New Zealand); 53: Dunhuang (Gansu, China): Dunhuang Town; 54: Dunhuang (Gansu, China): Mogao Caves; 55: Easter Island (Rapa Nui or Isla de Pascua; dependency of Chile); 56: Elephanta Island (Mah?r?shtra, India); 57: Ellora (Mah?r?shtra, India); 58: Fatehpur S?kri (Uttar Pradesh, India); 59: Fiji; 60: Fujinomiya (Shizuoka, Japan); 61: Galle (Sri Lanka); 62: Gay? (Bih?r, India); 63: Ghazn? (Ghazn?, Afghanistan); 64: Goa (India); 65: Golconda (Andhra Pradesh, India); 66: The Great Wall (China); 67: Guadalcanal (Solomon Islands); 68: Guangzhou (Guangdong, China); 69: Guw?h?ti (Assam, India); 70: Gwalior (Madhya Pradesh, India); 71: Hakodate (Hokkaid?, Japan); 72: Hami (Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, China); 73: Hangzhou (Zhejiang, China); 74: Hanoi (Vietnam); 75: Her?t (Her?t, Afghanistan); 76: Hikone (Shiga, Japan); 77: Hirado (Nagasaki, Japan); 78: Hirosaki (Aomori, Japan); 79: Hiroshima (Hiroshima, Japan); 80: Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam); 81: Hong Kong; 82: Hue (Vietnam); 83: Hyder?b?d (Andhra Pradesh, India); 84: Hyder?b?d (Sind, Pakistan); 85: Ise (Mie, Japan); 86: Iwo Jima (Volcano Islands, Japan); 87: Jaipur (R?jasth?n, India); 88: Jaisalmer (R?jasth?n, India); 89: Jakarta (Special Capital City Territory, Indonesia); 90: Jodhpur (R?jasth?n, India); 91: Jolo (Sulu, Philippines); 92: Jun?gadh (Gujar?t, India); 93: K?bul (K?bul, Afghanistan); 94: Kaifeng (Henan, China); 95: Kamakura (Kanagawa, Japan); 96: Kanazawa (Ishikawa, Japan); 97: K?nchipuram (Tamil Nadu, India); 98: Kandah?r (Kandah?r, Afghanistan); 99: Kandy (Sri Lanka); 100: Kar?chi (Sind, Pakistan); 101: Karakorum (Uburkhangai, Mongolia); 102: Kashgar (Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, China); 103: Kashihara (Nara, Japan); 104: K?thm?ndu (Nepal); 105: Khajur?ho (Madhya Pradesh, India); 106: Khyber Pass (North-West Frontier, Pakistan; K?bul, Afghanistan); 107: Kon?rak (Orissa, India); 108: Kongju and Puy? (South Cu'hngch'?ng, South Korea); 109: Kot Diji (Sind, Pakistan); 110: Krakatau (Indonesia); 111: Kuching (Sarawak, Malaysia); 112: Kumbakonam (Tamil N?du, India); 113: Kurukshetra (Hary?na, India); 114: Ky?ngju (North Ky?ngsang, South Korea); 115: Ky?to (Ky?to, Japan); 116: Lahore (Punjab, Pakistan); 117: Lhasa (Tibet, Xizang Autonomous Region, China); 118: Luang Prabang (Luang Prabang, Laos); 119: Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh, India); 120: Luoyang (Henan, China); 121: Macau; 122: Madras (Tamil N?du, India); 123: Mah?balipuram (Tamil N?du, India); 124: Mandalay (Myanmar); 125: M?ndu (Madhya Pradesh, India); 126: Manila (Manila, Philippines); 127: Mathur? (Uttar Pradesh, India); 128: Maz?r-i-Shar?f (Balkh, Afghanistan); 129: Melaka (Melaka, Malaysia); 130: Miyajima (Hiroshima, Japan); 131: Miyazaki (Miyazaki, Japan); 132: Mohenjo-daro (Sind, Pakistan); 133: Mount ?bu (R?jasthan, India); 134: Mount Everest; 135: Mult?n (Punjab, Pakistan); 136: Nagasaki (Nagasaki, Japan); 137: Nanjing (Jiangsu, China); 138: Nara (Nara, Japan); 139: N?sik (Mah?r?shtra, India); 140: Niah Caves (Sarawak, Malaysia); 141: Nikk? (Tochigi, Japan); 142: Norfolk Island (Australian External Territory, Australia); 143: Nouméa (South Province, New Caledonia); 144: ?saka (?saka, Japan); 145: Pagan (Myanmar); 146: Paharpur (R?jsh?hi, Bangladesh); 147: Palembang (South Sumatra, Indonesia); 148: Penang (Penang, Malaysia); 149: Pesh?war (North-West Frontier, Pakistan); 150: Pitcairn Island (Pitcairn Islands); 151: Plassey (West Bengal, India); 152: Polonnaruwa (Sri Lanka); 153: Port Arthur (Tasmania, Australia); 154: Prambanan (Central Java, Indonesia); 155: Puri (Orissa, India); 156: Qin Tomb (Shaanxi, China); 157: Quanzhou (Fujian, China); 158: Qufu (Shandong, China); 159: Quilon (Kerala, India); 160: R?meswaram (Tamil N?du, India); 161: Samarkand (Samarkand, Uzbekistan); 162: Samoa (Western Samoa and American Samoa); 163: S?nchi (Madhya Pradesh, India); 164: Shanghai (China); 165: Shanhaiguan (Hebei, China); 166: Shenyang (Liaoning, China); 167: Shigatse (Tibet, Xizang Autonomous Region, China); 168: S?giriya (Sri Lanka); 169: Singapore; 170: Somn?th (Gujar?t, India); 171: Sr?nagar (Jammu and Kashmir, India); 172: Sukhothai (Thailand); 173: Suzhou (Jiangsu, China); 174: Sydney (New South Wales, Australia); 175: Tahiti (Society Islands, French Polynesia); 176: Tainan (Taiwan, China); 177: Takayama (Gifu, Japan); 178: Takht-i-Bahi (North West Frontier, Pakistan); 179: Tatta (Sind, Pakistan); 180: Taxila (Punjab, Pakistan); 181: Thanj?v?r (Tamil Nadu, India); 182: Tianjin (China); 183: Tokelau (Territory of New Zealand); 184: T?ky? (T?ky?, Japan); 185: Tonga; 186: Tongariro (North Island, New Zealand); 187: Ujjain (Madhya Pradesh, India); 188: Ujung Pandang (South Sulawesi, Indonesia); 189: Vanuatu; 190: V?r?nas? (Uttar Pradesh, India); 191: Vientiane (Vientiane, Laos); 192: Vijayanagara (Karn?taka, India); 193: Waitangi (North Island, New Zealand); 194: Windsor (New South Wales, Australia); 195: Wuchang (Hubei, China); 196: Xian (Shaanxi, China); 197: Yanan (Shaanxi, China); 198: Yangon (Myanmar); 199: Yangzhou (Jiangsu, China); 200: Yogyakarta (Yogyakarta Special Territory, Indonesia); 201: Yungang Caves (Shanxi, China); 202: Zamboanga (Zamboanga del Sur, Philippines); 203: Zhengzhou (Henan, China)
