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Mazières Gallo-Roman villa
Mazières Gallo-Roman villa (les Mazières, Gourdon-Murat, Corrèze): a 1st-3rd century AD rural estate on the Plateau de Millevaches with a 65 x 60 m villa, circular funerary monument, tile kiln, and 2.5-hectare pond.
Mbanza Kongo, Vestiges of the Capital of the former Kingdom of Kongo
Mbanza Kongo (São Salvador), Angola, former political and spiritual capital of the Kingdom of Kongo, 14th–19th centuries; UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2017, criteria (iii) and (iv), 89.29 ha, with 16th-century Kulumbimbi cathedral vestiges.
Mbera refugee camp
Mbera refugee camp is a United Nations-administered camp in south-eastern Mauritania, created in 2012 for Malians fleeing the Mali conflict, now hosting around 120,000 people.
McNabs Island
McNabs Island, largest island at the entrance to Halifax Harbour, Nova Scotia, part of McNabs and Lawlor Islands Provincial Park; Mi'kmaq, McNab family farming, and fortifications including Fort McNab National Historic Site.
Meadow (Norway)
Meadow (slåttemark, slåtteeng): Norwegian semi-natural hay meadow kept open by traditional mowing without fertilizer; critically endangered (CR) habitat, about 9,000 decares in managed sites as of 2023, under a national action plan running to 2037.
Mechernich-Katzvey
Katzensteine at Mechernich-Katzvey, Eifel, Germany: 15 m red Buntsandstein cliffs with a 13,000-year-old Federmesser-Gruppe hunter camp and a small Roman quarry (1st century AD), now a nature reserve and protected monument.
Meclaria
Meclaria (Medaria), Roman road station and vicus at Thörl-Maglern, Carinthia, Austria, on the Aquileia–Virunum route; named by Paulus Diaconus (~625), with a 2nd–3rd century beneficiarius station and late-antique Hoischhügel fortification.
Medici Villas and Gardens in Tuscany
Medici Villas and Gardens in Tuscany (Ville e giardini medicei in Toscana): serial UNESCO World Heritage site, ref 175, inscribed 2013; twelve Medici villas plus Boboli and Pratolino gardens, criteria ii, iv, vi, 125.4 ha across four Tuscan provinces.
Medicinal Gardens
Medicinal Gardens: gardens dedicated to growing medicinal plants, from the first European physic garden at Pisa (1543, Luca Ghini) to India's CCRAS demonstrative gardens, NMPB-funded herbal gardens, and Odisha's Lok Bhavan and Ekamra Van gardens.
Medicinal Herb Garden
A medicinal herb garden is a garden of labeled medicinal plants, originally supplying physicians and apothecaries with authentic remedies; the first was Luca Ghini's garden in Pisa in 1543.
Medicinal plants garden
Garden of Medicinal Plants (薬用植物園): a cultivated collection of drug-yielding plants for pharmacy teaching, research, and conservation. Examples include Kyoto Pharmaceutical University's garden (over 1,000 species), Takeda's Kyoto garden, and Keio's garden.
Medicine Garden
Medicine garden (hortus medicus; German Arzneigarten): a cultivated garden of medicinal plants for teaching, research, and display. European university physic gardens began at Pisa in 1543; modern beds are organized by active constituents, body systems, or medical history.
Medieval City of Rhodes
Medieval City of Rhodes: walled old town of Rhodes, Greece, built as a stronghold by the Knights of St John (1309–1523), later Ottoman and Italian; UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1988, criteria ii, iv, v.
Medieval Monuments in Kosovo
Medieval Monuments in Kosovo (Monumentet Mesjetare në Kosovë) is a UNESCO World Heritage Site of four Serbian Orthodox churches and monasteries, on the List of World Heritage in Danger since 2006.
Medieval settlement
Medieval settlement (Chapel Walls, Wolsingham Manor of the Bishop of Durham): Scheduled Monument NHLE 1002334 at Wolsingham, County Durham; earthworks of a c.220 by 200 ft banked and ditched enclosure, a probable moated manor of the Prince Bishops of Durham.
Medieval square
Medieval Square (Середньовічна площа) is the central themed event area of Central (Gorky) Park in Kharkiv, Ukraine, with a 55 m Ferris wheel, the tallest in Ukraine, a 2,000+ m² children's Entertainment Center, and a medieval-style autodrom.
Medieval Town of Toruń
Medieval Town of Toruń, a UNESCO World Heritage Site (1997) in northern Poland: Teutonic Castle ruins, Old and New Town on the Vistula, Hanseatic trading center, Copernicus birthplace.
Medina of Fez
Medina of Fez (Fes el-Bali and Fes Jedid), Morocco's 9th-century walled old city and UNESCO World Heritage site since 1981, home of the Qarawiyyin university and Marinid monuments.
Medina of Marrakesh
The Medina of Marrakesh is the walled historic old town of Marrakesh, Morocco, founded by the Almoravids around 1070–1072 and inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1985.
Medina of Sousse
The Medina of Sousse (مدينة سوسة) is the walled old town of Sousse, a port city on Tunisia's Sahel coast, inscribed by UNESCO in 1988.
Medina of Tétouan (formerly known as Titawin)
Medina of Tétouan (Titawin), UNESCO World Heritage site since 1997 in northern Morocco; Andalusian-refugee-built walled medina, 6.5 ha, 5 km wall, seven gates, criteria ii, iv, v.
Medina of Tunis
Medina of Tunis (مدينة تونس القديمة), the historic walled Arabo-Muslim old town of Tunis founded in 698 A.D.; UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1979 with about 700 monuments, Zitouna Mosque, souks, and 296.41 ha property.
Mediocantus
Mediocantus, also called Médiocantus, an ancient place in Gaul cited as Barrington Atlas 14 H2 and identified with La Celle, France; known as the sixth-century hermitage of Patroclus of Bourges in Gregory of Tours.
Mediterranean Department
The Mediterranean Department is a section of the Batumi Botanical Garden in Adjara, Georgia, created in the 1930s to display plants native to the Mediterranean region.
Mediterranean Garden (Montenegro)
The Mediterranean Garden (Mediteranski vrt) is a volunteer-built aromatic-plant garden on Gorica Hill, Podgorica, Montenegro, opened in 2018 by the Association of Gorica and Nature Admirers, with about 1,000 mainly Mediterranean aromatic plants on a 3,000 m² site.
Mediterranean garden of Brijuni
Mediterranean Garden of Brijuni (Mediteranski vrt), a 17,000 m2 display garden on Veliki Brijun in Brijuni National Park, Croatia. Established 2007 on a former forest nursery, it holds about 170 autochthonous and exotic plant species labelled with QR codes.
Medora, North Dakota
Medora, North Dakota, is a small Badlands town founded in 1883 by the Marquis de Mores, now the gateway to Theodore Roosevelt National Park and its library.
Mefitis
Mefitis, also Mephitis or Mefite, an Italic goddess of fields, flocks, and waters, worshipped 7th c. BC to 2nd c. AD, chiefly at the sulphurous Ansanto sanctuary of the Hirpini and at Rossano di Vaglio; her name became the word mephitic.
Mega Land
Mega Land (ملاهي ميجا لاند) names several unrelated amusement parks: an indoor FEC in Al Shatea Mall, Dammam, Saudi Arabia, with one family coaster, and an outdoor park in Tulkarm, West Bank, with two coasters and a 57-meter ride; also a defunct Kerala tour company.
Megaliths of Carnac and of the shores of Morbihan
Megaliths of Carnac and of the shores of Morbihan (Mégalithes de Carnac et des rives du Morbihan): serial UNESCO World Heritage site in Brittany, France, inscribed 12 July 2025, dense Neolithic megalithic monuments built c. 5000–2300 BCE.