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Pergamon and its Multi-Layered Cultural Landscape
Pergamon and its Multi-Layered Cultural Landscape, UNESCO World Heritage Site 1457 (2014, criteria i-vi), Turkey: Attalid Hellenistic capital on Kale Hill, Roman provincial capital, Byzantine and Ottoman layers, nine components near Bergama.
Périgueux Roman amphitheater
Périgueux Roman amphitheater (amphithéâtre de Périgueux), the 140 x 116 m, 18,000-seat amphitheater of Gallo-Roman Vesunna in Dordogne, France; solid structure, no basement, later rampart bastion, now the Jardin des Arènes.
Peripheral park area
Peripheral park area (GEMET concept 10214; German Parkrandgebiet) is a park zone where scientific research is allowed, lying inside an outer buffer zone that shields the reserve from agricultural, industrial and urban development.
Periurban space
Periurban space, also called peri-urban area, urban fringe, or rurban zone, is the transitional territory between city and countryside where urban and rural land uses mix. Defined variously by density thresholds (0–300 persons/km²), it is the fastest expanding land use globally and a major planning challenge.
Periyar National Park
Periyar National Park (350 km2) is the core of the 777 km2 Periyar Tiger Reserve at Thekkady, Kerala, in the Western Ghats. Known for tigers, elephants, Periyar Lake, and community ecotourism with former poachers.
Permaculture Garden
Permaculture garden: a garden designed under permaculture (permanent agriculture), the 1970s Mollison and Holmgren design system using three ethics, zone planning, guilds, and layered food-forest planting.
Peroushtitsa
Peroushtitsa (Перущица) is a town in the Rhodope foothills of southern Bulgaria near Plovdiv, home of the Red Church, a 4th-6th century tetraconchal early Christian basilica and martyrium restored in 2012-2013.
Persepolis (تخت جمشید)
Persepolis, known in Persian as Takht-e Jamshid, is the ruined Achaemenid palace complex near Shiraz, Iran, begun by Darius I about 518 BCE and burned in 330 BCE.
Persian and Hellenistic Administrative Building (PHAB), Tel Kedesh
The Persian and Hellenistic Administrative Building is a monumental public building at Tel Kedesh in Israel's Upper Galilee, used as a regional administrative center from about 500 to 144 BCE.
Peschiera necropolis
Peschiera necropolis (Necropoli della Peschiera) is an Etruscan rock-cut necropolis at Tuscania in Lazio, central Italy, in use from the 8th to the 1st century BC.
pet’s corner (animalerie)
pet’s corner (animalerie), Arabic ركن الحيوانات الأليفة, is a small zoo and pet shop on Rue Emir Abdelkader in Chlef, Algeria, near Place Ettadhamoun and the town hall, distinct from the UK Pets Corner retail chain.
Petäjävesi Old Church
Petäjävesi Old Church (Petäjäveden vanha kirkko) is a Lutheran log church in central Finland, built 1763–1765 by Jaakko Klemetinpoika Leppänen, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1994 and Finland's only World Heritage church.
Petavonium
Petavonium, at Rosinos de Vidriales (Zamora, Spain), was a Roman legionary fortress of Legio X Gemina and later the auxiliary fort of the Ala II Flavia Hispanorum, with unaltered camps of 17.35 and 4.7 hectares.
Peterborough Petroglyphs
The Peterborough Petroglyphs are more than 900 Indigenous rock carvings on white marble in Petroglyphs Provincial Park, Ontario, made by Algonquian-speaking peoples between 900 and 1400 CE.
Petit Loango
Petit Loango is a Ramsar wetland of international importance on Gabon's Atlantic coast, designated in 1986, overlapping Loango National Park and sheltering hippos, gorillas, elephants, and nesting sea turtles.
Petite France, Strasbourg
Petite France (Gerberviertel) is Strasbourg's historic tanners', millers', and fishermen's quarter at the western end of the Grande Île, where the Ill splits into canals; half-timbered 16th-17th century houses, Ponts Couverts towers, Vauban dam, UNESCO-listed since 1988.
Petnic
Petnic is a village in Iablanița commune, Caraș-Severin County, Banat, Romania, known for a Roman-period stone quarry, Roman road and funerary finds, and the Petnic Formation named after it.
Petra
Petra (Raqmu) is the rock-cut Nabataean capital in southern Jordan, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1985 and a New Seven Wonder (2007), famed for the Siq, the Treasury, and its ancient water engineering.
Petra/Fundus Petrensis
Petra (Fundus Petrensis), a fortified Roman-era Berber estate in the Soummam valley, Algeria, built by Sammac, brother of Firmus; known from Ammianus Marcellinus and a 1900 Latin verse inscription at Mlakou.
Petrified Forest
Petrified forests are sites where buried ancient trees turned to stone through mineral replacement. Major examples include Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona, the Shenzhen fossil forest, Calistoga, Lesvos, Namibia, and Mississippi.
Petrified Forest National Park
Petrified Forest National Park, northeastern Arizona national park (monument 1906, park 1962), protects Late Triassic Chinle Formation petrified wood, over 700 fossil sites, Painted Desert badlands, and 13,000 years of human history.
Petroglyphic Complexes of the Mongolian Altai
Petroglyphic Complexes of the Mongolian Altai, a serial UNESCO World Heritage Site (2011) in Bayan-Ulgii, Mongolia: three rock art sites, Tsagaan Salaa-Baga Oigor, Upper Tsagaan Gol, and Aral Tolgoi, whose carvings span about 12,000 years from mammoth-steppe hunters to Turkic nomads.
Petroglyphs along the Bangucheon Stream
Petroglyphs along the Bangucheon Stream (반구천의 암각화), a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Ulsan, South Korea, inscribed July 2025; Daegok-ri and Cheonjeon-ri rock panels with engravings from 5,000 BCE to the 9th century CE, including rare whale-hunting scenes.
Petroglyphs of Lake Onega and the White Sea
Petroglyphs of Lake Onega and the White Sea (Петроглифы Онежского озера и Белого моря), UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2021 in Karelia, Russia: over 4,500 Neolithic Pit-Comb Ware culture carvings, circa 4500-3500 BCE, in 33 panels at two sites 300 km apart.
Petroglyphs of the Archaeological Landscape of Tanbaly
Tanbaly (Tamgaly) petroglyphs, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2004 in Kazakhstan's Chu-Ili mountains: about 5,000 rock carvings in 48 complexes, Bronze Age to 20th century, famed for sun-headed deities.
Petroliaco
Petroliaco, an ancient villa or estate in Roman Gaul named in the will of Desiderius of Cahors, mapped at Barrington Atlas 14 G4 and tentatively identified with Peyrillac, Dordogne.
Petronell
Petronell (Petronell-Carnuntum), Lower Austria: village on the Danube holding the Roman civil town of Carnuntum, its Hadrianic municipium, auxiliary fort, Heidentor, and the Archaeological Park Carnuntum, a UNESCO Danube Limes site.
Petting farm
משק חי (petting farm, animal corner) is the Hebrew term for settings holding animals for education, therapy, or entertainment, from school animal corners to commercial farms like Beit Hashita (15 dunams) and a zoo near Yagur, Haifa District.
Pfaffenhofen
Pfaffenhofen names several German places, chiefly Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm, an Upper Bavarian district town rebuilt after the 1388 fire, with a 78 m church tower; also Pfaffenhofen a.d. Roth and a Zabergäu town.
Pfälzerwald / Vosges du Nord Biosphere Reserve
Pfälzerwald / Vosges du Nord Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO MAB transboundary biosphere reserve designated December 1998, the first in the EU, covering 3,061.6 km² of sandstone forest across the French-German border.