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Miankaleh Biosphere Reserve
Miankaleh Biosphere Reserve, Iran, UNESCO MAB site (1976) and Ramsar site (1975) on the southeastern Caspian Sea, protecting the Miankaleh Peninsula and Gorgan Bay, a major migrant bird staging area facing wetland drying and eutrophication.
Miceris
Miceris (Meciris, Micheris) was a minor Roman road station in Cyrenaica, Libya, on the Peutinger Table between Paliuris and Antipego, identified with Zaviet el-Mrassas; distinct from Lake Moeris, Mocheresis, and Maktaris.
Michael Jackson Childhood Home
The Michael Jackson Childhood Home is the two-bedroom house at 2300 Jackson Street in Gary, Indiana, where Joe and Katherine Jackson raised Michael and the Jackson 5.
Micia
Micia (Vețel, Hunedoara County, Romania): large Roman auxiliary fort and civilian settlement on the left bank of the Mureș River in Roman Dacia, key to the western frontier, garrisoned by several auxiliary units, UNESCO-listed since 2024.
Mid-Pripyat State Landscape Zakaznik
Mid-Pripyat State Landscape Zakaznik (Srednyaya Pripyat), Belarusian protected floodplain and Ramsar site no. 1090 since 2001, a 120-km stretch of the Pripyat river between Pinsk and Turov, about 93,000 ha, key waterbird site.
Midbarium
Midbarium (מדבריום), the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Animal Park, is a 140-dunam experiential desert animal park in Beersheva, Israel, opened July 2024, with about 100 desert species across canyon, steppe, oasis, and savanna habitats, replacing the old Negev Zoo.
Middle Zambezi Biosphere Reserve
Middle Zambezi Biosphere Reserve: UNESCO MAB site in Zimbabwe's Zambezi Valley, designated 5 June 2010, the country's first biosphere reserve. Covers about 2.16 million ha along the Zambezi from Lake Kariba to Kanyemba, including Mana Pools World Heritage Site, with two core zones, eleven buffer zones, and roughly 40,600 residents.
Middle-Volga Integrated Biosphere Reserve
Middle-Volga Integrated Biosphere Reserve (Средне-Волжский комплексный биосферный резерват), a UNESCO biosphere reserve in Samara Region, Russia, designated 27 October 2006; first complex biosphere reserve in Russia, based on Zhiguli Reserve and Samarskaya Luka National Park.
Middlewich Roman fort
Middlewich Roman fort (Salinae): auxiliary fort at Harbutt's Field, Cheshire, built around AD 70, about 110 by 125 m, garrisoned until about AD 130, then a civilian salt-working settlement; identified by 1993 geophysical survey, Scheduled Monument 1008460.
Midhowe
Midhowe is a Neolithic stalled chambered cairn on the island of Rousay, Orkney, the largest of 15 on the island, holding the remains of at least 25 people.
Midland Hotel, Manchester
The Midland Hotel, Manchester: Grade II listed Edwardian Baroque railway hotel on Peter Street, built 1898–1903 by Charles Trubshaw for the Midland Railway; where Rolls met Royce in 1904; distinct from the Midland Hotel, Morecambe.
Mieza theater
Mieza theater (Αρχαίο Θέατρο Μίεζας): ancient theatre at Belovina, Naoussa, Greece, found in 1992; three phases from Hellenistic to 2nd century AD, 22 m orchestra, cavea carved in poros bedrock, in use to the 4th century AD.
Migratory Bird Sanctuaries along the Coast of Yellow Sea-Bohai Gulf of China
The Migratory Bird Sanctuaries along the Coast of Yellow Sea-Bohai Gulf of China are a serial World Heritage Site inscribed in 2019 and 2024, protecting vital intertidal wetlands for migratory birds.
Mikulov
Mikulov (Mikulov na Moravě), South Moravian border town on the Brno–Vienna road to Austria; urban heritage reserve since 1982 with chateau, Dietrichstein tomb, and one of the Czech Republic's oldest and largest Jewish cemeteries.
Milecastle 1 (Stott's Pow)
Milecastle 1 (Stott's Pow), first of the 80 milecastles of Hadrian's Wall counting west from Wallsend (Segedunum). Short-axis, legio II Augusta; remains buried under Miller's Dene recreation ground; location uncertain, 1886 finds now attributed to Turret 0b.
Milecastle 10 (Walbottle Dene)
Milecastle 10 (Walbottle Dene) is a Roman milecastle on Hadrian's Wall in Newcastle, discovered in 1864, a long-axis Type IV-gate fortlet, scheduled monument and World Heritage Site.
Milecastle 11 (Throckley Bank Top)
Milecastle 11 (Throckley Bank Top), a conjectural Hadrian's Wall milecastle at Drove Road and Hexham Road, Throckley, Newcastle; never found despite searches in 1928, 1929, 1959, and 1983; near the 1879 Walbottle hoard.
Milecastle 12 (Heddon)
Milecastle 12 (Heddon) was a milecastle of Hadrian's Wall, the Roman frontier in northern England, at Heddon-on-the-Wall, Northumberland, now believed to lie west of its traditional Town Farm site, in Tank House Field.
Milecastle 13 (Rudchester Burn)
Milecastle 13 (Rudchester Burn), a short-axis milecastle of Hadrian's Wall in Heddon-on-the-Wall, Northumberland, near Vindobala fort; survives as a low mound, excavated 1930, with a 1776 coin hoard latest AD 168.
Milecastle 14 (March Burn)
Milecastle 14 (March Burn) is a Roman milecastle on Hadrian's Wall, Northumberland, at NZ 1068 6768; the only known short-axis Broad Wall milecastle, heavily robbed, evaluated in 2000, scheduled monument SM26040.
Milecastle 15 (Whitchester)
Milecastle 15 (Whitchester) was a long-axis milecastle of Roman Hadrian's Wall in Northumberland, England, surviving as a 1-meter-high platform south of the B6318 Military Road, identified from an RAF aerial photograph in 1958 but never excavated.
Milecastle 16 (Harlow Hill)
Milecastle 16 (Harlow Hill), a buried Roman milecastle of Hadrian's Wall on Harlow Hill's crest, Northumberland; examined by Horsley in 1732 and excavated by Hepple and Richmond in the 1950s; nothing visible above ground.
Milecastle 17 (Welton)
Milecastle 17 (Welton/Whittledean), a short-axis milecastle of Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 17 beneath the B6318 Military Road; excavated 1931 and 1999, measuring 17.68 by 14.93 m internally, with a Type I north gate and broad north wall.
Milecastle 18 (East Wallhouses)
Milecastle 18 (East Wallhouses) is a Roman milecastle on Hadrian's Wall in Northumberland, partly excavated in 1931 with walls almost 2.5 m thick, no visible remains, near turrets 18a and 18b.
Milecastle 19 (Matfen Piers)
Milecastle 19 (Matfen Piers), a long-axis Narrow Wall milecastle on Hadrian's Wall in Northumberland, 150 m east of Matfen Piers under the B6318; excavated 1931–32 and 1999, known for a Varduli altar to the Mothers, now almost totally destroyed.
Milecastle 2 (Walker)
Milecastle 2 was a milecastle of Roman Hadrian's Wall in the Walker district of Newcastle upon Tyne, built over by 1885, with no visible remains today.
Milecastle 21 (Down Hill)
Milecastle 21 (Down Hill), an unlocated milecastle of Hadrian's Wall in Northumberland near Haltonchesters fort; its measured position is discredited and a Down Hill summit 180m east is favored.
Milecastle 22 (Portgate)
Milecastle 22 (Portgate) was a Hadrian's Wall fortlet in Northumberland, excavated 1930, 55 ft wide, Type III north gateway blocked early because the adjacent Portgate on Dere Street made it redundant.
Milecastle 23 (Stanley)
Milecastle 23 (Stanley) is a scheduled Roman milecastle site on Hadrian's Wall in Corbridge parish, Northumberland, near Portgate; partly excavated in 1930 (15 m internal width, 2.9 m walls), overlooking Dere Street.
Milecastle 24 (Wall Fell)
Milecastle 24 (Wall Fell), also MC24, is a Roman milecastle on Hadrian's Wall in Northumberland, surviving as a turf covered mound south of the B6318, partly excavated in 1930, within Scheduled Monument 1010958.