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Salem/Salumias
Salem/Salumias (Sedima), an ancient place at Tel Shalem (Tell er-Radgha) in the Jordan Valley near Beth-Shean; biblical Salem of Melchizedek, Aenon of John the Baptist, and site of a Roman fort of legio VI Ferrata and Ala VII Phrygum.
Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument
Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument is a National Park Service unit near Mountainair, New Mexico, preserving three 17th-century Franciscan missions and pueblos at Abó, Quarai, and Gran Quivira, created from Gran Quivira National Monument (1909) and renamed in 1988.
Salisio
Salisio, ancient road station near Bad Salzig on the lower Moselle, Germany; Pleiades place 109319, Barrington Atlas 11 H2, attested 30 BC-AD 640, linked by conjectured road to Colonia Augusta Treverorum.
Salkhityn Am
Salkhityn Am (Салхитын ам) is an Early Xiongnu cemetery in Rashaant soum, Khövsgöl Province, northern Mongolia, excavated 2010–2012 under S. Ulziibayar; 31 tombs, distinctive horse offerings, Grave 7 mirror, and 11 sequenced genomes.
Salma UNESCO Global Geopark
Salma UNESCO Global Geopark, in Saudi Arabia's Hail region, designated 2025 as one of the country's first two geoparks; volcanic rocks over 740 million years old, Al-Hutaymah Crater, Harrat Hutaymah, and the Darb Zubaydah pilgrimage route.
Saloca
Saloca, a Roman road station in Noricum on the Tabula Peutingeriana between Virunum and Aquileia, 11 Roman miles (17.6 km) from Virunum, identified with Krumpendorf, Austria; distinct from any other ancient place of similar name.
Salomacus
Salomacus (Salomacum), an ancient road station of Gallia Aquitania on the Antonine Itinerary road between Burdigala (Bordeaux) and Aquae Tarbellicae (Dax); traditionally identified with Salles, Gironde, an identification now questioned, with a proposed site near Le Barp.
Salona
Salone (Salona, Salonae), Roman capital of the province of Dalmatia at Solin near Split, Croatia, on the Jadro river. Colony from about 48/47 BC, largest ancient town on the eastern Adriatic, destroyed in the early 7th century.
Salonga National Park
Salonga National Park (Parc national de la Salonga), DRC: Africa's largest tropical rainforest reserve and a UNESCO World Heritage Site (1984), a bonobo and forest elephant stronghold, in danger list 1999-2021, co-managed by ICCN and WWF.
Salpausselkä UNESCO Global Geopark
Salpausselkä UNESCO Global Geopark, southern Finland, designated 2022; 4,506 km² across six Päijät-Häme municipalities, protecting the Younger Dryas ice-marginal ridges and eskers formed 12,300–11,600 years ago.
Salsulae Fons
Salsulae Fons (Salsulis) was a Roman road station with a salt spring on the Via Domitia at modern Salses, France, near Narbonne; cited by Pomponius Mela and the Antonine Itinerary, 30 miles from Narbonne, with a castrum and ancient port.
Salt Lake Temple
Salt Lake Temple: flagship temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City, announced 1847, dedicated 1893, granite with six spires; closed since 2019 for base-isolation seismic retrofit, reopening with open house April–October 2027.
Salt Mines of Maras
Salineras de Maras, or Salt Mines of Maras: about 4,500 prehispanic evaporation wells near Cusco, Peru, worked communally by Maras and Pichingoto families since before Inca times, marketed via Marasal S.A.
Saltus Burunitanus
Saltus Burunitanus: Roman imperial estate in the Bagradas valley, Tunisia, known from the 182 CE inscription (CIL VIII 10570) recording coloni's petition to Commodus against conductor Allius Maximus.
Saltus Neronianus
Saltus Neronianus, a large Roman imperial estate in the Oued Medjerda valley of northern Tunisia, named after Nero; formed from Statilius Taurus holdings, farmed under the lex Manciana, and documented by the Aïn el-Djemala and Aïn Wassel agrarian inscriptions.
Saltus Philomusianus
Saltus Philomusianus was a large Roman imperial estate in northwestern Tunisia, between Bulla Regia and Chimtou, chiefly remembered as the domain containing the imperial quarries of yellow Numidian marble.
Saltus Poctanensis P(h)osphorianus
Saltus Poctanensis P(h)osphorianus, also Posphorianus, a large Roman estate (saltus) in Numidia near Bordj Sabath, Algeria, known from a dedication by the freedman Q. Antistius Agathopus to Jupiter Saturnus and the estate's genius for the senatorial Antistii family of Thibilis.
Salutation (estate)
Salutation is a 45-room Georgian Revival mansion completed in 1929 for Junius Spencer Morgan III on West Island, Glen Cove, Long Island; later owned by John S. Samuels III and Margo Walker, and filmed in Sabrina and Succession.
Salzburger Lungau & Kärntner Nockberge Biosphere Reserve
Salzburger Lungau & Kärntner Nockberge Biosphere Reserve, Austria's largest UNESCO biosphere reserve (149,421 ha, designated 2012), spans Salzburg and Carinthia, with core, maintenance, and development zoning, organic farming, and sustainable tourism projects.
Samarra (سامراء)
Samarra (سامرّاء), Iraq's Abbasid capital from 836 to 892, founded by al-Mu'tasim 130 km north of Baghdad; a 41.5 km archaeological site with the Great Mosque, Malwiya spiral minaret, and 80% still unexcavated, a UNESCO World Heritage in Danger site since 2007.
Šamaš temple (Khorsabad)
The Šamaš temple (Shamash temple) at Khorsabad, ancient Dur-Sharrukin, was one of six temples built by Sargon II (r. 721–705 BC) around a square courtyard on the palace terrace, identified by an inscription in Room 172's doorway.
Sammuttijänkä - Vaijoenjänkä Mires
Sammuttijänkä - Vaijoenjänkä Mires, a Ramsar site (no. 1531) in Lapland, Finland, designated 2 February 2004; 51,749 ha of near-pristine mire, Finland's largest continuous natural mire area, important for breeding waterfowl, wolverine and otter.
Samnite Sanctuary at Pietrabbondante
Samnite Sanctuary at Pietrabbondante: major Italic cult and political center of the Pentri Samnites on Monte Saraceno, Molise, Italy; Oscan inscriptions, theatre-Temple B complex (c. 120-90 BCE), abandoned after the Social War.
SAMOTA Biosphere Reserve
SAMOTA Biosphere Reserve, short for Saleh–Moyo–Tambora, is a UNESCO biosphere reserve on Sumbawa in West Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia, designated in 2019, covering about 724,631 hectares around Saleh Bay, Moyo Island, and Tambora National Park.
Samphran Elephant Ground & Zoo
Samphran Elephant Ground & Zoo (ลานแสดงช้างและฟาร์มจระเข้สามพราน) is an animal park in Nakhon Pathom Province, Thailand, opened in 1985 and known for elephant shows and crocodile wrestling.
Samui Monkey Center
Samui Monkey Center (Samui Monkey Centre), a monkey zoo and show in Lipa Noi, Ko Samui, Thailand, rated 1.1/5 on Tripadvisor, criticized for animal cruelty and TB concerns, and targeted by WFFT and PETA closure campaigns.
Samutprakarn Crocodile Farm & Zoo
Samutprakarn Crocodile Farm & Zoo (ฟาร์มจระเข้และสวนสัตว์ สมุทรปราการ), founded 1950 by Uthai Youngprapakorn in Samut Prakan, Thailand, is the country's first crocodile farm, holding over 60,000 crocodiles, CITES-registered as A-TH-501, and known for crocodile shows and welfare criticism.
San Agustín Archaeological Park
San Agustín Archaeological Park, Huila, Colombia: South America's largest group of megalithic funerary monuments and statues, made 1st-8th century AD, UNESCO World Heritage 1995, ICANH-managed since its 1931 creation.
San Antonio River Walk
The San Antonio River Walk, or Paseo del Rio, is a linear park along the San Antonio River in Texas, built as a WPA project in 1939–1941.
San Crisogono
San Crisogono (Basilica di San Crisogono) is a titular minor basilica in Trastevere, Rome: a 4th-century titulus rebuilt in 1123 by Cardinal Giovanni da Crema and in 1626 by Soria for Cardinal Scipione Borghese, with an excavated early Christian basilica beneath.