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Te Papa-Kura-o-Taranaki

Te Papa-Kura-o-Taranaki, formerly Egmont National Park, is a national park on New Zealand's North Island around the 2,518 m dormant volcano Taranaki Maunga; renamed and granted legal personhood (Te Kāhui Tupua) in 2025.

Te Wahipounamu – South West New Zealand

Te Wahipounamu – South West New Zealand, a 1990 natural UNESCO World Heritage site (criteria vii–x) in the South Island's south-west, covering 2.6 million hectares across Fiordland, Mount Aspiring, Mount Cook and Westland national parks.

Teatro di Solunto

Teatro di Solunto: Hellenistic theatre of ancient Soluntum on Monte Catalfano, Santa Flavia, Sicily; discovered 1953, cavea of 22 rows seating 1,500-1,800, paraskenia scene building, disputed 4th-century or 2nd-century BC dating.

Teatro Marittimo

The Teatro Marittimo is a circular island retreat at the center of Hadrian's Villa in Tivoli, Italy, built for the emperor Hadrian around 118 AD.

Ţebea

Ţebea, also spelled Țebia or Czebe, is a village in Baia de Criș commune, Hunedoara County, Romania, known for Roman gold mining and Avram Iancu's grave.

Teberda Biosphere Reserve

Teberda Biosphere Reserve (Тебердинский заповедник), a protected mountain area in Karachay-Cherkessia, Russia, founded 1936, UNESCO MAB site 1997, 112,606 ha with over 100 glaciers; reorganized as Teberda National Park in 2021.

Tegris

Tegris, also Tegra, Tigra, or Tigris, was a Roman auxiliary fort on the Danube Limes near Marten, Bulgaria, at Martensko Kale. Triangular plan, legio I Italica stamps, repaired under Justinian I per Procopius.

Tegulata (France)

Tegulata, a Roman road station on the Via Aurelia in Provence, France, identified by some historians with La Grande Pugère near Trets; distinct from homonymous Teglata in Africa and Tegulata at Sestri Levante.

Tegulitium

Tegulitium (Tabula Peutingeriana Tegulicio; RE Teglicio) is a Roman and late-antique fort on the lower Danube frontier at Vetren, Bulgaria, Barrington Atlas 22 E4, between Nigrinianis and Durostero.

Tehran Birds Garden

Tehran Birds Garden (باغ پرندگان تهران), Lavizan Forest Park, northeast Tehran; Iran's largest bird garden, opened 1392 (2013), with Dashtchar and free-flight Abchar phases under a large cable-net roof.

Tehran Sled

Tehran Sled (سورتمه تهران), also called Darband or Golabdarreh Sled, is an 850 m gravity rail sled ride in Golabdarreh Park, north Tehran, opened 1392 (2013), the capital's first sled, with a second 1,420 m Wiegand sled at Tochal.

Tehuacan El Viejo

Tehuacan El Viejo (Tehuacán Ndachjian) is a Popoloca Postclassic archaeological zone near San Diego Chalma, Puebla, Mexico, with 644 recorded structures, the Great Temple, Temple of the New Fire, and possible early nixtamalization tubs.

Tehuacan-Cuicatlan Biosphere Reserve

The Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Biosphere Reserve (Reserva de la Biosfera Tehuacán-Cuicatlán) is a biosphere reserve in Puebla and Oaxaca, Mexico, established in 1998 and a UNESCO site since 2012.

Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Valley: originary habitat of Mesoamerica (protected area)

Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Valley: originary habitat of Mesoamerica (Valle de Tehuacán-Cuicatlán) is a 2018 mixed UNESCO World Heritage Site in Puebla and Oaxaca, Mexico, with 145,255 ha of cactus forests, early plant domestication dating to 9500-7000 BC, and the continent's most diversified ancient irrigation complex.

Teici and Pelecare bogs

Teici and Pelecare bogs (Teiču un Pelēčāres purvs), Ramsar Site no. 740 in eastern Latvia, designated 25 July 1995; two intact raised and transitional bogs, about 25,469 ha, within Teici Strict Nature Reserve.

Teide National Park

Teide National Park (Parque Nacional del Teide) is a UNESCO World Heritage national park on Tenerife, Canary Islands, centered on the 3,718 m Teide-Pico Viejo stratovolcano, Spain's highest peak, with 18,990 ha and over 4 million annual visitors.

Tejo/Tajo Internacional Biosphere Reserve

Tejo/Tajo Internacional Transboundary Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO MAB site designated 18 March 2016 in Lima, shared by Extremadura (Spain) and Portugal along the Tagus River; 428,176 ha, 62,775 inhabitants, cork oak dehesas and Mediterranean raptors.

Tekhnologicheskiy park

Tekhnologicheskiy park, or technopark, is an organization that creates a favorable environment for science-intensive enterprises and supports commercializing research results, starting with Stanford Research Park in 1951.

Tel Anafa

Tel Anafa, in Arabic Tel el-Hader, is an archaeological mound in Israel's Upper Galilee, best known for its richly preserved late Hellenistic settlement of the second and first centuries BCE.

Tel Dor (דוֹר)

Tel Dor (תל דור), ancient Doros, a major Phoenician harbor town on Israel's Carmel coast, occupied from the Bronze Age through the Crusader period, excavated since 1980 and now a national park with over 20 shipwrecks offshore.

Tel Kisson

Tel Kisson (Tel Kison, Tell Keisan, תל כיסון) is a multi-period tell in Israel's 'Akko Valley, 8 km southeast of 'Akko, occupied from the Neolithic to the Ottoman period and possibly the Canaanite city of Akhshaph.

Tel Megiddo (תל מגידו)

Tel Megiddo (תל מגידו, Tell el-Mutesellim) is the mound of ancient Megiddo at the western Jezreel Valley, northern Israel, occupied since about 7000 BCE, a UNESCO World Heritage tel, biblical Armageddon, and the key site in the Iron Age chronology debate.

Tel Rehov (תל רחוב)

Tel Rehov (תל רחוב, Tell es-Sarem) is a 10-hectare mound in Israel's Beth-Shean Valley, excavated 1997–2012 by Amihai Mazar. Known for the only ancient apiary ever found, Nimshi and Elisha inscriptions, and radiocarbon dates central to the Iron Age High versus Low Chronology debate.

Telesterion

Telesterion (Τελεστήριον), the great roofed initiation hall at Eleusis, Attica, where the Eleusinian Mysteries were enacted; rebuilt from Mycenaean Megaron B through classical (Ictinos, Koroibos) and Roman phases, destroyed by Alaric's Goths.

Teleutskiy Vzvoz-I

Teleutskiy Vzvoz-I (Телеутский Взвоз-I) is a multi-period burial complex on the Ob River in Altai Krai, Russia: an Early Bronze Age Elunin culture cemetery (c. 1740–1660 BC) and a Mongol-period, Golden Horde barrow group of the Karmatskaya culture.

Teliţa

Teliţa (Tulcea County, Romania), village in Frecăţei commune, northern Dobruja; site of the Iron Age Teliţa-Celic Dere complex, Roman villa rustica at La pod, Teliţa-Amza settlement, and an early 4th-century basilica.

Tell Babil

Tell Babil (Jebel Babil) is the highest mound at Babylon, Iraq, site of Nebuchadnezzar II's fortified Summer Palace, long mistaken for the Etemenanki ziggurat; visited by della Valle 1616, excavated by Koldewey 1914–15.

Tellaro Roman Villa (Caddeddi)

Tellaro Roman Villa (Caddeddi), a Late Roman estate on the Tellaro river near Noto, Sicily, discovered in 1971 under an 18th-century masseria, famed for mid-4th-century mosaics of Hector's ransom and hunts with an Africa personification.

Tellegate

Tellegate, an ancient Roman road station (mutatio) on the Bergamo-Brescia road in northern Italy, listed in the 333 AD Bordeaux Itinerary 12 miles from Bergamo; identified with modern Telgate, province of Bergamo; Pleiades place 383796, BAtlas 39 F2.

Telonnum (France)

Telonnum: ancient Gallo-Roman road station in Gaul, on the Tabula Peutingeriana (Telonno) and Antonine Itinerary; Aeduan site identified with Toulon-sur-Arroux, Saône-et-Loire, France, with a second Telonnum in Aquitania.