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Magabula
Magabula (Ptolemy's Megaloula, Μεγάλουλα) was a Roman road station in Pontus Polemoniacus on the Tabula Peutingeriana, between Gagonda and Danae on the Comana-Nicopolis road, tentatively placed at Akarçay near Almus, Turkey.
Magaliesberg Biosphere Reserve
The Magaliesberg Biosphere Reserve is a UNESCO biosphere reserve in South Africa, designated in 2015, covering 357,870 hectares between Pretoria, Johannesburg, and Rustenburg, where grassland and savannah biomes meet.
Magdalenenberg
Magdalenenberg (Fürstengrab Magdalenenberg, Villingen) is the largest Iron Age burial mound in Central Europe, near Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany. Oak chamber dendro-dated 616 BC, 126 secondary graves, excavated by Konrad Spindler 1970-1973.
Mageroy Gallo-Roman villa
The Mageroy Gallo-Roman villa is a large Roman agricultural estate at Habay-la-Vieille in Belgium, occupied almost continuously from the 1st century AD until it burned after 262.
Magia
Magia: Roman road station on the Tabula Peutingeriana (segment III/1) between Clunia and Luria (Chur) on the Bregenz–Milan route; usually identified with Maienfeld, Switzerland, though localization is debated.
Magical Coastal Park
Magical Coastal Park (Jadyly Kenar, or Magic shore) is an amusement park in the Avaza national tourist zone on the Caspian Sea coast near Turkmenbashi, Turkmenistan, opened in 2015.
Magma UNESCO Global Geopark
Magma UNESCO Global Geopark, in southern Rogaland, Norway (Eigersund, Flekkefjord, Sokndal, Bjerkreim, Lund), protects 930-million-year-old anorthosite, the Moon's highland rock, across 46 geosites.
Magnesia on the Maeander (Μαγνησία ἡ ἐπὶ Μαιάνδρῳ)
Magnesia on the Maeander (Magnesia ad Maeandrum), ancient Greek city in Ionia near Ortaklar, Aydın, Turkey; refounded 398 BCE by Thibron, famed for Hermogenes' Temple of Artemis Leucophryene, its 30,000-seat stadium, and Humann's 1891–1893 excavations.
Magnesia Theater 2
Magnesia Theater 2 is an unfinished late Hellenistic or early Roman theater, the second theater of Magnesia ad Maeandrum near Tekin in Aydın Province, Turkey, discovered in 1984.
Magnificent Seven cemeteries
The Magnificent Seven cemeteries are seven private commercial London burial grounds built 1832-1841: Kensal Green, West Norwood, Highgate, Abney Park, Brompton, Nunhead, and Tower Hamlets, created to relieve overcrowded churchyards.
Magor
Magor: Roman villa at Magor Farm, Illogan near Camborne, Cornwall; the westernmost known villa in Roman Britain. Excavated 1931-2 by Bryan O'Neil; winged-corridor house built mid-2nd century AD within an Iron Age round, with a 13-coin denarius hoard; distinct from Magor village, Monmouthshire.
Mahaban Mound
Mahaban Mound, officially "Mound marking the Old Fort", is a centrally protected ASI monument in Mahaban town, Mathura district, Uttar Pradesh, identified with King Kulachandra's fort against Mahmud of Ghazni in 1017 CE, over earlier Buddhist remains.
Māhān
Mahan (ماهان), town in Kerman Province, Iran, 30 km from Kerman; home of the Shah Nematollah Vali shrine (Timurid to Qajar, 32,000 m2) and the UNESCO-listed Shazdeh Garden; distinct from Korean Mahan confederacy.
Mahanad Mound
Mahanad Mound (Mounds, Mahanad) is a group of ancient mounds at Mahanad, Hooghly district, West Bengal, a centrally protected ASI monument notified in 1937, with Kushana to Akbar-era coins and 5th-6th century pottery and stucco heads.
Maheshra Mound
Maheshra Mound (Ancient Mound, Maheshra; N-RJ-76) is an ASI-protected archaeological settlement mound in Dausa district, Rajasthan, notified in 1951, about 150 x 100 m, once 4-5 m high, levelled for cultivation, with black slipped, grey, and red wares found.
Mai Ndombe (protected area)
Mai Ndombe (protected area): conservation areas of Mai-Ndombe Province, DRC, including Salonga National Park, Oshwe hunting area, Tumba-Lediima Reserve, and the Ngiri-Tumba-Maindombe Ramsar wetland; 15.9% of the province is protected and REDD+ carbon projects finance much of the conservation.
Maia
Maia (Mais) was the Roman fort at Bowness-on-Solway, Cumbria, at the western end of Hadrian's Wall; second largest Wall fort, about 3 ha, with a vicus, later a medieval tower house.
Maiden Castle Roman Fortlet (Cumbria)
Maiden Castle Roman Fortlet, near Brough, Stainmore, Cumbria: a scheduled small Roman fortlet (about 40 by 50 m) on the Stainmore Roman road, occupied second to fourth centuries AD, distinct from the Dorset hillfort of the same name.
Maiden Castle, Cheshire
Maiden Castle, Cheshire: Iron Age bivallate promontory hillfort on Bickerton Hill, 212 m above sea level on the Cheshire Sandstone Ridge; scheduled monument 1013293, excavated by W. J. Varley 1932-35, managed by the National Trust; distinct from the Dorset namesake.
Maimeh
Maimeh: an ancient place in Media, Iran, catalogued as Pleiades place 903076 (BAtlas 92 B3), also a modern Iranian town of 400 houses in Jusqan province, a caravanserai name, and a village in the Gambia.
Main Building
Main Building (本館) is the principal indoor exhibition building of Otaru Aquarium in Shukutsu, Otaru, Hokkaido, opened 1974; two floors plus basement, 54 tanks including the 420 m³ Kuroshio tank and the harbor porpoise Honobono pool. Also a name for the 1912 Bank of Japan Otaru Museum building.
Mains Rigg signal tower
Mains Rigg signal tower: Roman signal station at Upper Denton, Cumberland, on the Stanegate between Nether Denton and Throp forts; scheduled monument 1013605, stone tower 6.5 m square, excavated 1928 and 1971-2.
Maio Biosphere Reserve
Maio Biosphere Reserve: UNESCO Man and the Biosphere site designated 2020 covering all of Maio Island and its marine zone in Cabo Verde (73,972 ha, 6,980 people), with endemic turtles, sharks, lizards, and salt-producing communities.
Maizières
Maizières (Mazières, La Mazère) names several French Gallo-Roman sites, chiefly a villa complex with tile kiln, circular funerary monument, and pond at Gourdon-Murat, Corrèze, plus villas at Saint-Martin-le-Mault and Bourges.
Majang Forest Biosphere Reserve
Majang Forest Biosphere Reserve, southwest Ethiopia's Gambella region, UNESCO MAB site designated June 2017, 225,490 ha of moist Afromontane forest; home of Majang and Shekacho peoples, who derive 64.53% of household income from forest products.
Majdabad
Majdabad (مجد آباد) is an ancient limestone quarry site in Fars, Iran, 40 km west of Persepolis, source of the dark grey-black Achaemenid building stone; also several modern Iranian villages of the same name.
Major Mining Sites of Wallonia
Major Mining Sites of Wallonia (French: Sites miniers majeurs de Wallonie) is a UNESCO World Heritage Site inscribed in 2012, comprising four preserved coal-mining complexes in southern Belgium.
Major Town Houses of the Architect Victor Horta (Brussels)
Major Town Houses of the Architect Victor Horta (Brussels): UNESCO World Heritage Site (2000) of four Art Nouveau houses, Hôtel Tassel, Hôtel Solvay, Hôtel van Eetvelde, and Maison & Atelier Horta, inscribed under criteria (i), (ii), and (iv).
Majorelle Garden
Majorelle Garden (Jardin Majorelle, حديقة ماجوريل) is a one-hectare botanical garden in Marrakech created by painter Jacques Majorelle from 1923, famed for Majorelle Blue, saved by Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé in 1980, and now run by the Fondation Jardin Majorelle with a Berber museum.
Makarbai Mound
Makarbai Mound: archaeological remains at Makarbai village, Mahoba district, Uttar Pradesh, India, with a Later Vedic settlement (1000 BC-200 AD), the three-sanctum Makarbai Temple, and ASI-protected granite temple ruins.