Format: UNESCO World Heritage List

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• InfoTheme: Islamic astronomy
  Entity: 67
  Subentity: 1
  Version: 4
  Status: PUB
  Date: 2017-11-05 12:14:05
  Author(s): Clive Ruggles

Ulugh Beg’s observatory is inscribed on the

• UNESCO World Heritage List

as part of the property ’Samarkand—Crossroads of Cultures‘ (no. 603).

The Brief, Long and Historical Descriptions, and the Statement of OUV, do not elaborate on the nature or significance of the observatory.

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