Kunya-Urgench

World Heritage
Turkmenistan
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Kunya-Urgench is located in the northwest of Turkmenistan, on the left bank of the Amu Darya River. Urgench was the capital of the Khorezm region, which was part of the Achaemenid Empire. The old town has a series of monuments built mainly from the 11th to the 16th centuries, including a mosque, caravanserai gates, fortresses, mausoleums and a 60-meter-high minaret. These monuments bear witness to outstanding achievements in architecture and craftsmanship, whose influence spread to Iran and Afghanistan, and later to the architecture of the Mughal Empire in 16th century India.

Turabek Khanum Mausoleum, view from the south

Portal in front of Najm ad-Din al-Kubra Mausoleum

Timurlane's army besieging the city of Urgench in the 14th century

View of Tekesh Mausoleum

Kutlug Timur Minaret

View of the Il Arslan Mausoleum, Kunya Urgench, Turkmenistan

Kunya-Urgench 9

Tekesh Mausoleum, Kunya Urgench, Turkmenistan

Kunya-Urgench 8

Najm ad-Din al-Kubra Mausoleum

Soltan Tekesh Mausoleum in Kunya Urgench

Mosaic decoration on the dome of Turabek Khanum Mausoleum

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Information extracted from Wikidata

official name Köneürgenç
native label Köneürgenç
World Heritage criteria World Heritage selection criterion (ii)
image http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/KonyeUrgenchMausoleum.jpg
located in the administrative territorial entity Daşoguz Region
executive body Kunya Urgench
IPA transcription 2122253
office held by head of the organization http://g.co/kg/m/06yqlf
Commons category Kunya Urgench
coordinate location Point(59.158611111 42.316666666)
topic's main category Category:Kunya Urgench
Dewey Decimal Classification 2--585
population 36754

population 9013
point in time 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z
population 21827
point in time 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z
start time 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z
official name Kunya-Urgench
official name قونيا - أورغنش
official name Kunya-Urgench
official name Kunya-Urgench
official name クニヤ‐ウルゲンチ
official name Kunya-Urgench
official name Древний город Куня-Ургенч
official name 库尼亚-乌尔根奇
volume as quantity World Heritage selection criterion (ii)
population 34677
point in time 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z
population 14130
point in time 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z
population 2681
point in time 1939-01-01T00:00:00Z
population 17896
point in time 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z