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The text related to the cultural heritage 'Incense Route - Desert Cities in the Negev' has mentioned 'Desert' in the following places:
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Incense Route xe2x80x93 Desert Cities in the NegevAvdat xe2x80xa2 Haluza Mamshit xe2x80xa2 Shivta This box: viewtalkedit | WIKI |
Incense Route xe2x80x93 Desert Cities in the NegevUNESCO World Heritage SiteLocationNegev, IsraelIncludes The route, including Avdat Haluza Mamshit Shivta CriteriaCultural:xc2xa0(iii), (v)Reference1107revInscription2005 (29th session)Area6,655xc2xa0ha (16,440 acres)Bufferxc2xa0zone63,868xc2xa0ha (157,820 acres)Coordinates30xc2xb032xe2x80xb228xe2x80xb3N 35xc2xb09xe2x80xb239xe2x80xb3Exefxbbxbf / xefxbbxbf30.54111xc2xb0N 35.16083xc2xb0Exefxbbxbf / 30.54111; 35.16083Coordinates: 30xc2xb032xe2x80xb228xe2x80xb3N 35xc2xb09xe2x80xb239xe2x80xb3Exefxbbxbf / xefxbbxbf30.54111xc2xb0N 35.16083xc2xb0Exefxbbxbf / 30.54111; 35.16083AvdatHaluzaMamshitShivta The desert cities in south-central Israel | WIKI |
Incense Route xe2x80x93 Desert Cities in the Negev is a World Heritage-designated area near the end of the Incense Route in the Negev, southern Israel, which connected Arabia to the Mediterranean in the Hellenistic-Roman period, proclaimed as being of outstanding universal value by UNESCO in 2005. | WIKI |
Four towns in the Negev Desert, which flourished during the period from 300 BC to 200 AD, are linked directly with the Mediterranean terminus of both the Incense Road and spice trade routes: Avdat, Haluza, Mamshit, and Shivta. | WIKI |
As a group, these desert cities demonstrate the lucrative trade in frankincense and myrrh that took place from Yemen in south Arabia to the port of Gaza on the Mediterranean. | WIKI |
Vestiges of these works are still visible, and demonstrate the use of the desert for commerce and agriculture. | WIKI |
The Incense Route xe2x80x93 Desert Cities in the Negev site comprises the Negev, southern Israel, which connected Arabia to the Mediterranean in the Hellenistic-Roman period. | WIKI |
During the period from 300 BC to 200 AD, four towns which prospered in the Negev Desert were Avdat, Haluza, Mamshit, and Shivta. | WIKI |
The end of the incense route in the Negev Region of Israel, which included towns, forts, caravanserai and the irrigation system in desertic areas with links to the Mediterranean, has been inscribed as a cultural heritage site of the UNESCO's World Heritage List under Criteria (iii) as confirmation of the economic, social and cultural importance of frankincense to the Hellenistic-Roman world, and Criteria (v) for development along the route in severe desert conditions. | WIKI |
The Mediterranean was the first link on this route in the Negev Desert to the southern part of Israel in a route of 200 kilometres (120xc2xa0mi) length, with Moa on the eastern border and with Jordan to Haluza on the northwestern side. | WIKI |
The Haluza town is in the northern extremity of the nominated site and is a desert with sand dunes which has buried most of the town. | WIKI |
Agriculture practiced by the Nabateans in the arid desert conditions where the annual precipitation is of the order 100 millimetres (3.9xc2xa0in), is through a well developed irrigation system consisting of hundreds of small dams, channels, cisterns, and reservoirs which collect flood water. | WIKI |
The four Nabatean towns of Haluza, Mamshit, Avdat and Shivta, with their associated fortresses and agricultural landscapes linking them to the Mediterranean are situated on a segment of this route, in the Negev Desert, in southern Israel. | UNESCO |
They stretch across a hundred-kilometre section of the desert, from Moa on the Jordanian border in the east to Haluza in the northwest. | UNESCO |
Together they reflect the hugely profitable trade in Frankincense from south Arabia to the Mediterranean, which flourished from the third century BCE until the second century CE, and the way the harsh desert was colonised for agriculture through the use of highly sophisticated irrigation systems. | UNESCO |
Combined, the route, and the desert cities along it, reflect the prosperity of the Nabatean incense trade over a seven hundred year period, from the 3rd century BCE to the 4nd century CE. | UNESCO |
The remains of the Nabatean desert settlements and agricultural landscapes presents a testimony to the economic power of frankincense in fostering a long desert supply- route from Arabia to the Mediterranean in Hellenistic-Roman times, which promoted the development of towns, forts and caravanserais to control and manage that route. | UNESCO |
Theyxc2xa0 also display an extensive picture of Nabatean technology over five centuries in town planning and building and bear witness to the innovation and labour necessary to create an extensive and sustainable agricultural system in harsh desert conditions, reflected particularly in the sophisticated water conservation constructions. | UNESCO |
Criterion (v): The almost fossilized remains of towns, forts, caravanserais and sophisticated agricultural systems strung out along the Incense Route in the Negev desert, display an outstanding response to a hostile desert environment and one that flourished for five centuries. | UNESCO |
The towns and forts combined with their trade routes and their agricultural hinterland, in all they provide a very complete picture of the Nabatean desert civilisation strung along a trade route. | UNESCO |