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Ashmore Reef
Ashmore Reef: a 583 km² shelf-edge platform reef in the Timor Sea, Australia's Ashmore and Cartier Islands External Territory, 630 km north of Broome. Marine park since 1983, Ramsar site since 2002, with three vegetated islands hosting about 100,000 breeding seabirds, dugongs, turtles and diverse corals.
Ashtead Roman villa
Ashtead Roman villa: scheduled minor Romano-British villa on Ashtead Common, Surrey, with detached bath house and tileworks; excavated by Lowther 1924-9, Hampton 1960s, Surrey Archaeological Society 2006-2013.
Ashur (Qal'at Sherqat)
Ashur (Qal'at Sherqat), ancient Assur, Iraq: first capital of the Assyrian Empire (14th–9th centuries BC), religious capital of the god Ashur, UNESCO World Heritage site since 2003 and on the danger list.
Asia (site)
Asia (site): a geographically themed Asian plant collection within a botanical garden, as at UC Berkeley's Asian Collection, Leiden's Hortus botanicus, and Bern's Asia area; distinct from the continent of Asia itself.
Asian Village
Asian Village (القرية الآسيوية) is the Asia-themed zoo zone of Dubai Safari Park in Al Warqa 5, Dubai, known for the UAE's first Moon Bear exhibit, Komodo dragon, gibbons, and live shows; the name also labels former attractions in Sentosa and themed zoo areas elsewhere.
Asirgarh Fort (असीरगढ़ किला)
Asirgarh Fort (असीरगढ़ किला), the "Gateway to the Deccan," is a hill fortress in the Satpura Range 20 km north of Burhanpur, Madhya Pradesh. Built by Asa Ahir in 1370, taken by Akbar in 1601, it is a centrally protected ASI monument.
Aşıklı Höyük
Aşıklı Höyük: Aceramic (Pre-Pottery) Neolithic mound in Aksaray, Cappadocia, Central Anatolia, on the Melendiz River; occupied about 10,400 to 9,300 years ago, with the earliest Anatolian mudbrick architecture and early sheep and goat management by 8450 BCE.
Asklepieion (Kos)
Asklepieion of Kos (Ἀσκληπιεῖον τῆς Κω), ancient sanctuary of Asklepios on Kos, 3.4 km from Kos town; three-terrace Hellenistic healing center and medical school linked to Hippocrates, founded after 366 BC, excavated from 1902 by Herzog.
Asklepieion and Lerna
Asklepieion and Lerna: the healing sanctuary of Asklepios and the Lerna spring at ancient Corinth, founded late 5th century BC, rebuilt late 4th century BC, famous for terracotta anatomical votives and the Lerna dining court.
Asklepieion of Messene
Asklepieion of Messene: large 215/214 BC sanctuary complex at the center of ancient Messene, Greece, where Asklepios was worshipped as civic ancestor, not healer, with Doric temple, Bouleuterion, and Damophon sculptures.
Asklepieion of Pheneos
Asklepieion of Pheneos: ancient sanctuary in the plain of Pheneos, Arcadia, Peloponnese, traditionally attributed to Asclepius, an attribution now disputed; studied in Melfi's 2007 corpus, with a nearby fountain and 2008 fieldwork.
Asmara: A Modernist African City
Asmara: A Modernist African City is the UNESCO World Heritage designation, inscribed in 2017, of the historic center of Asmara, Eritrea's capital, with well-preserved Italian modernist architecture.
Aso Farm Land
Aso Farm Land (阿蘇ファームランド) is a health-themed resort in Minamiaso, Kumamoto, opened 1995, with 330 dome cottages, Genki no Mori exercise park, onsen, and animal areas inside Aso-Kuju National Park.
Aso UNESCO Global Geopark
Aso UNESCO Global Geopark (阿蘇ユネスコジオパーク) is a UNESCO geopark in central Kyushu, Japan, centered on Aso Volcano's 25 x 18 km caldera, formed by four eruptions between 270,000 and 90,000 years ago, with the active Nakadake cone and 33 geosites.
Aspalluga
Aspalluga (Aspalluca), a Roman road station in Aquitania on the Antonine Itinerary route from Caesaraugusta to Beneharnum, 7 miles past Foro Ligneo; traditionally identified with Accous in the Aspe valley, a placement disputed by Bost.
Aspripetra
Aspripetra (Aspri Petra, Σπήλαιο της Άσπρης Πέτρας), Cave of the White Stone on Mount Zini, Kefalos, Kos: prehistoric cave and sanctuary of Pan and the Nymphs, excavated by Della Seta and Levi in June 1922.
Aspromonte UNESCO Global Geopark
Aspromonte UNESCO Global Geopark, in Calabria, Italy, designated 2021, coincides with Aspromonte National Park (65,645 ha, Montalto 1,956 m), on the Calabrian-Peloritano Orogen with fiumare, waterfalls, and 8 international geosites.
Assad Mausoleum
Assad Mausoleum in Qardaha, Latakia, Syria, held the tombs of Bassel al-Assad (1994) and President Hafez al-Assad (2000); rebel fighters burned it on 11 December 2024 after the Assad regime fell.
Assaria
Assaria (Assaria), ancient coastal place in Africa Proconsularis, modern Libya, known from the Tabula Peutingeriana (Barrington 35 E2, Pleiades 344299), identified with al-Mayah near As Zaouiyah; distinct from Assyria and from Assaria, Kansas.
Assateague State Park
Assateague State Park is Maryland's only oceanfront state park, on Assateague Island's northern two miles, opened in 1965 with 345 beachside campsites, lifeguarded swimming, and wild horses.
Assembly Rooms
Assembly Rooms: public rooms for balls, concerts, and card play, chiefly 18th-century; best known are the Bath Assembly Rooms (1769-1771, John Wood the Younger, Grade I, National Trust), gutted in 1942 and restored 1963, closed 2025-2027 for a £17m Georgian visitor experience.
Assemini
Assemini, also known as Assèmini in Sardinian, is a comune of about 25,600 people in the Metropolitan City of Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy, famed for its ancient ceramics tradition.
Assisi, the Basilica of San Francesco and Other Franciscan Sites
Assisi, the Basilica of San Francesco and Other Franciscan Sites: UNESCO World Heritage property (inscribed 2000, dossier 990) in Umbria, Italy, birthplace of Saint Francis (1182-1226), covering 14,563.25 ha with the basilica, Santa Chiara, Carceri, San Damiano, and Santa Maria degli Angeli.
Assistens Cemetery (Copenhagen)
Assistens Kirkegård (Assistens Cemetery), Copenhagen, Nørrebro: 1760 assistance cemetery for the poor, later fashionable; burials include H.C. Andersen, Kierkegaard, Niels Bohr; listed 2015, guaranteed until 2150.
Assumption Cathedral and Monastery of the town-island of Sviyazhsk
Assumption Cathedral and Monastery of the town-island of Sviyazhsk (Свияжск Успенский монастырь): Russian Orthodox monastery in Tatarstan founded 1555, cathedral 1556-1560 with rare 16th-century frescoes, UNESCO World Heritage site since 2017.
Asterousia Mountain Range Biosphere Reserve
Asterousia Mountain Range Biosphere Reserve (Asterousia, Crete), a UNESCO MAB biosphere reserve designated 28 October 2020, Greece's third after Olympus and Samaria; 125,741 ha, Kofinas peak 1,231 m, southernmost mountains in Europe.
Astibos
Astibos (Ἄστιβος, also Astibus, Astibo, Istubera): ancient Paeonian river, today's Bregalnica, and its settlement at modern Štip, North Macedonia; a Roman road station between Stobi and Pautalia, distinct from any astronomical Pleiades subject.
Astrakhanskiy Biosphere Reserve
Astrakhanskiy Biosphere Reserve (Астраханский биосферный заповедник), a UNESCO MAB site since 1984 in the Volga delta, Russia; founded 11 April 1919 as the first Soviet zapovednik, a Ramsar wetland hosting up to 750,000 waterfowl.
Astura
Astura (Torre Astura): island and river mouth on the Latium coast near Nettuno, Italy; site of Cicero's villa, an imperial retreat, a Via Severiana station, and the medieval tower where Conradin of Swabia was betrayed in 1268.
Aswan Botanical Garden
Aswan Botanical Garden, on El Nabatat (Kitchener's) Island in the Nile at Aswan, Egypt, is a botanical garden and research station begun under Lord Kitchener in the 1890s, with seven sectors of tropical plants, a herbarium, seed bank, and museum.