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Historia natural de Nueva España
Historia natural de Nueva España is a Latin survey of New Spain's plants, animals, and minerals by Francisco Hernández de Toledo after a 1570–1577 expedition.
Historia natural y moral de las Indias
Historia natural y moral de las Indias is a seven-book account of the nature and peoples of Spanish America by José de Acosta, first published in Seville in 1590.
Historia Regum Britanniae
Historia Regum Britanniae, also known as De gestis Britonum, is a largely fictitious Latin history of pre-Saxon Britain written by Geoffrey of Monmouth in the 1130s.
Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España
Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España, Bernal Díaz del Castillo's eyewitness chronicle of the conquest of Mexico, finished 1568, first printed Madrid 1632, written against Gómara's Cortés-centered account.
Historian
Historian: a scholar who researches, analyzes, interprets, and writes about the past using primary and secondary sources, practiced in universities, museums, archives, and government; median US wage $76,750 (May 2025), about 3,800 jobs, typically requiring a master's degree.
Historias Extraordinarias
Historias Extraordinarias (Extraordinary Stories) is a 2008 Argentine film by Mariano Llinás: 245 minutes, three never-crossing stories of men X, Z, and H, 18 chapters, BAFICI 2008 awards, El Pampero Cine, about 30,000-dollar budget.
Historias para ser contadas
Historias para ser contadas (Stories to Be Told) is a 1956 cycle of satirical short plays by Argentine dramatist Osvaldo Dragún, premiered in Buenos Aires.
Historic American Buildings Survey
The Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) is a United States federal program, begun in December 1933, that records historic buildings through measured drawings, photographs, and written histories.
Historic American Engineering Record
The Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) is a National Park Service program founded in 1969 that documents historic engineering and industrial sites through drawings, photographs, and written reports.
Historic and Architectural Complex of the Kazan Kremlin
Historic and Architectural Complex of the Kazan Kremlin (Историко-архитектурный комплекс Казанского Кремля), a UNESCO World Heritage fortress in Kazan, Tatarstan, inscribed 2000 under criteria ii, iii, iv; the only surviving Tatar fortress in Russia, conquered by Ivan the Terrible in 1552, with the Kul-Sharif Mosque and Annunciation Cathedral.
Historic Area of Willemstad, Inner City and Harbour, Curaçao
Historic Area of Willemstad, Inner City and Harbour, Curaçao: UNESCO World Heritage site (no. 819, inscribed 1997, criteria ii/iv/v), a Dutch colonial trading settlement founded in 1634 around Sint Anna Bay, with districts Punda, Otrobanda, Pietermaai, and Scharloo.
Historic Areas of Istanbul
Historic Areas of Istanbul: UNESCO World Heritage site (1985, no. 356) grouping four zones, Sultanahmet Archaeological Park, Süleymaniye, Zeyrek, and the Theodosian Land Walls, with Hagia Sophia, Topkapı Palace, and Sinan's Süleymaniye Mosque.
Historic bridge trusts and bridgemasters
Historic bridge trusts and bridgemasters were the endowed bodies and local officers English towns used to fund bridge upkeep before modern highway authorities, under the Bridges Acts of 1530 and 1670.
Historic Bridgetown and its Garrison
Historic Bridgetown and its Garrison, Barbados' first UNESCO World Heritage site (2011, criteria ii, iii, iv), a 187 ha serpentine-plan colonial port town and 18th-19th century British garrison on Carlisle Bay, an entrepôt for sugar and enslaved people.
Historic Cairo
Historic Cairo (القاهرة التاريخية), also called Islamic Cairo, is the medieval core of Egypt's capital, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1979. Founded by the Fatimids in 969 AD, it preserves half the world's surviving medieval Islamic monuments amid modern Cairo.
Historic center of Mexico City
Historic center of Mexico City (Centro Histórico), core of the capital built by the Spanish on Tenochtitlan's ruins after 1521; UNESCO World Heritage site since 1987 with Xochimilco, containing the Zócalo, Templo Mayor, Metropolitan Cathedral, and National Palace.
Historic Centre (Old Town) of Tallinn
Historic Centre (Old Town) of Tallinn, UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1997 (criteria ii, iv): medieval Hanseatic trading city of Toompea and lower town, 113 ha property, 2,253 ha buffer zone after 2008 boundary change.
Historic Centre of Agadez
The Historic Centre of Agadez is the 15th-century old town of Agadez, Niger, a caravan city on the Sahara's edge, inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2013.
Historic Centre of Avignon: Papal Palace, Episcopal Ensemble and Avignon Bridge
Historic Centre of Avignon (Centre historique d'Avignon), UNESCO World Heritage site inscribed 1995, criteria (i)(ii)(iv), 8.2 ha: 14th-century papal seat with the Palais des Papes, Petit Palais, Notre-Dame des Doms cathedral, and Saint Bénézet Bridge.
Historic Centre of Brugge
Historic Centre of Brugge (Bruges), Belgium: entire medieval city core, UNESCO World Heritage site since 2000 under criteria ii, iv, vi; 410 ha property, brick Gothic, Flemish Primitives, Jan van Eyck and Hans Memling.
Historic Centre of Bukhara
Historic Centre of Bukhara, UNESCO World Heritage site in Uzbekistan inscribed 1993 (criteria ii, iv, vi), 216 ha plus 339 ha buffer; over 2,000-year-old Silk Roads city with Samanid tomb, Poi-Kalyan minaret, and Sheibanid urban fabric under active conservation scrutiny.
Historic Centre of Camagüey
Historic Centre of Camagüey, Cuba: UNESCO World Heritage site (2008, criteria iv and v), 54 ha, old core of Santa María del Puerto del Príncipe, settled 1528, with irregular serpentine streets, tinajones, and Andalusian earthen architecture.
Historic Centre of Český Krumlov
Historic Centre of Český Krumlov: UNESCO World Heritage Site (No. 617, inscribed 1992, criterion iv) in South Bohemia, Czech Republic, a medieval town on the Vltava around a 13th-century castle with Gothic, Renaissance, and Baroque architecture; 51.65 ha property, 850.76 ha buffer zone.
Historic Centre of Cordoba
Historic Centre of Cordoba (Centro histórico de Córdoba), UNESCO World Heritage site in Andalusia, Spain: inscribed 1984 as the Great Mosque, extended 1994; 80.28 ha covering the Mosque-Cathedral, Alcázar, Roman Bridge, and Calahorra Tower.
Historic Centre of Évora
Historic Centre of Évora (Centro Histórico de Évora), UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1986, criteria ii and iv: walled Alentejo museum-city with Roman Temple, 13th-century Cathedral, whitewashed azulejo houses, spared by the 1755 earthquake.
Historic Centre of Florence
Historic Centre of Florence (Centro Storico di Firenze), UNESCO World Heritage site inscribed 1982 under criteria (i)(ii)(iii)(iv)(vi); 532 ha property with 10,453 ha buffer zone, bounded by 14th-century walls, extended in 2021 to include San Miniato al Monte.
Historic Centre of Guimarães and Couros Zone
Historic Centre of Guimarães and Couros Zone (Centro Histórico de Guimarães e Zona de Couros): UNESCO World Heritage site in Guimarães, Portugal, inscribed 2001 and extended in 2023 to add the former leather-tanning Couros Zone; criteria (ii), (iii), (iv).
Historic Centre of Kraków
Historic Centre of Kraków (Stare Miasto, Wawel, Kazimierz with Stradom), UNESCO World Heritage Site inscribed 8 September 1978 among the first 12 sites, criterion (iv); 149.65 ha property, 907.35 ha buffer zone since 2010, Europe's largest medieval market square.
Historic Centre of Macao
Historic Centre of Macao (澳门历史城区), UNESCO World Heritage Site inscribed 15 July 2005: 22 buildings and 8 squares on the Rua Direita recording four centuries of Portuguese-Chinese encounter, China's 31st World Heritage Site.
Historic Centre of Mexico City and Xochimilco
Historic Centre of Mexico City and Xochimilco (Centro histórico de México y Xochimilco), UNESCO World Heritage Site inscribed 11 December 1987 under criteria ii, iii, iv, v; combines the colonial core built on Tenochtitlan with Xochimilco's chinampa canals 28 km south, threatened by subsidence, urbanization, and pollution.