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Thurnham Roman villa

Thurnham Roman villa: Roman villa complex near Maidstone, Kent, found 1833, excavated 1958 (Maidstone bypass) and by Oxford Archaeological Unit during Channel Tunnel Rail Link works; Iron Age origins, stone villa by end of 1st century AD.

Thymonia

Thymonia (Θυμωνιά) is an ancient circular tower site on the southeast coast of Thasos, Greece, near Aliki; the island's largest tower, 15 m in diameter, probably guarding the Aliki quarries.

Tiananmen Square (天安门广场)

Tiananmen Square (天安门广场) is Beijing's vast central city square, about 440,000 m², south of the Forbidden City. Once a closed imperial ceremonial space, it opened in 1913, was rebuilt 1958–1959, and hosts China's major state ceremonies.

Tianzidi Mountain Wild Amusement Park

天子地山野乐园 (Tianzidi Mountain Wild Amusement Park), a 4A mountain amusement park in Baijiang Town, Tonglu County, Hangzhou, Zhejiang; upgraded April 2025 with six themed zones, the 3.8 km Zilong Gorge glass drift (WRCA record, 500 m drop), and the 2.3 km Snow Leopard flying car. Distinct from the identically named Tianzidi scenic areas elsewhere.

Tiberiane

Tiberiane (Τιβεριανή, Tibereus) was a Roman fort and granite quarry settlement in Egypt's Eastern Desert at Wadi Barud, a satellite of Mons Claudianus, known from second-century ostraca and Pliny's Tiberian stone.

Tibet Selincuo Wetlands

Tibet Selincuo Wetlands (西藏色林错湿地), Ramsar Site no. 2352, designated 8 January 2018 around Siling Lake, Tibet; China's largest Ramsar site at 1,893,630 ha, averaging 4,700 m elevation, a black-necked crane stronghold.

Tibradden Chambered Cairn

Tibradden Chambered Cairn (Irish: Tigh Bródáin, "Brodáin's House") is a Bronze Age burial cairn on the summit of Tibradden Mountain in the Dublin Mountains, Ireland, first excavated in 1849.

Ticino, Val Grande Verbano Biosphere Reserve

Ticino, Val Grande Verbano Biosphere Reserve (Riserva della Biosfera Ticino Val Grande Verbano): UNESCO MAB reserve in Lombardy and Piedmont, Italy, designated 2018 as an extension of the 2002 Valle del Ticino reserve; over 332,000 hectares to the Swiss border, 211 municipalities, core-buffer-transition zonation.

Tierpark Walbeck

Tierpark Walbeck is a small zoo in the Walbeck district of Hettstedt, Saxony-Anhalt, the only zoo in Mansfeld-Südharz. Opened 1971, run by Trägerverein Tierpark Walbeck e. V., it holds native species plus llamas and nandus, draws about 38,000 visitors yearly, and receives EU/LEADER funding.

Tierpark Zittau

Tierpark Zittau (Zittau Zoo) is a small zoo founded 1965 in the Weinaupark, Zittau, Saxony, Germany, in the tri-border area with Czechia and Poland; about 7 ha, 400 animals in 80 species, natural-building enclosures, run by Tierpark Zittau e.V.

Tierwelt Rainguthof - Mondo degli Animali

Tierwelt Rainguthof (Mondo degli Animali), petting zoo in Gfrill, Tisens, South Tyrol, Italy; former mountain farm of the Piazzi family on the Gampen Pass road at ~1,100 m; donation entry, daily year-round, camels Laika and Alibaba, emus, Mangalitsa pigs.

Tifunque

Tifunque (Tinfunqué) is a 280,000-hectare Ramsar site and national park in Presidente Hayes, Paraguay, designated 7 June 1995, an alluvial plain of the Pilcomayo River with threatened rhea, caiman, turtle, and jaguar.

Tigava Castra

Tigava Castra, also Tigava Castra of Mauretania Caesariensis, was a Roman military camp at El Attaf, Algeria, near Tigava Municipium (El Abadia); excavated in 1939, its enclosure measured 147 by 111 m, occupied from the late 2nd to mid 3rd century AD.

Tigellio Roman villa

Villa di Tigellio: Roman residential complex in Cagliari, Sardinia, with three domus and a bath building, occupied 1st century BC to 6th century AD; name from a forged 1865 biography of the musician Tigellio.

Tiger reserves of India

Tiger reserves of India: 58 protected areas across 18 states under Project Tiger (1973) and the NTCA, covering about 84,500 km², holding 60–65% of India's 3,682 tigers (2022 estimate).

Tiger Trail

Tiger Trail (Стежка тигра, Тропа тигра) names several zoo exhibits, including San Diego Zoo's 1988 rainforest trail, Safari Park's Tull Family Tiger Trail, Busch Gardens' 2008 habitat, Kharkiv Zoo's Far East exhibit, and Amur tiger hiking routes in Russian reserves.

Tigre De Cristal

Tigre de Cristal (crystal tiger) is the first casino resort of the Primorye gambling zone near Vladivostok, opened 11 November 2015; 121-room five-star hotel, over 300 slots, operated by G1 Entertainment under Summit Ascent/LET Group, now being sold.

Tigris Tunnel Inscriptions

Tigris Tunnel Inscriptions: five Assyrian royal rock inscriptions (Tigris 1–5) with reliefs of Tiglath-pileser I and Shalmaneser III at Birkleyn caves, Diyarbakır Province, Turkey, where the Dibni stream, a source of the Tigris, flows through a natural 900 m tunnel.

Tihău

Tihău, a village in Surduc commune, Sălaj County, Romania, site of a Roman auxiliary fort on the Someș in Dacia Porolissensis, garrisoned by cohors I Cannanefatium, with stone fort 129 by 144 m and UNESCO tentative-list status.

Tikal

Tikal: major ancient Maya city in Petén, Guatemala, now Tikal National Park (57,600 ha, World Heritage 1979). Inhabited 6th century BC to 10th century AD; 33 recorded rulers, 40,000–80,000 people at peak, famed for reservoirs and rivalry with Calakmul.

Tikal National Park

Tikal National Park (Parque Nacional Tikal), Peten, Guatemala: 57,600-hectare UNESCO World Heritage site (1979, cultural and natural criteria) protecting the major Maya city of Tikal and its rainforest, excavated by the University of Pennsylvania from 1956.

Tiksariya Mound

Tiksariya Mound, a centrally protected ASI monument (N-UP-L94) at Tiksariya village, Fatehpur district, Uttar Pradesh: an extensive ancient mound with a group of Hindu sculptures, under Lucknow Circle.

Tila Monument

Tila Monument: excavated terraced brick temple platform at Pawaya (ancient Padmavati), Gwalior district, Madhya Pradesh; ASI centrally protected, late Naga or early Gupta period, Vishnu temple base.

Tillya tepe

Tillya Tepe (Tillia Tepe, "Hill of Gold"), Bactrian Gold hoard: six 1st-century CE nomad noble burials near Sheberghan, Afghanistan, excavated 1978 by Viktor Sarianidi, yielding about 20,000 gold objects mixing Greek, Indian, Chinese, and steppe art.

Tilurium

Tilurium (Tilurij), Roman legionary fortress at Gardun near Trilj, Croatia, above the Cetina river; garrisoned by Legio VII and later auxiliaries, excavated since 1997, source of the Gardun Trophy.

Timacum Maius

Timacum Maius, a Roman road station on the Lissus–Naissus–Ratiaria road, first station from Naissus in the Tabula Peutingeriana, identified at Kalnica near Niševac and Svrljig, eastern Serbia, with baths, hypocausts, and Cohors I Cretum brick stamps.

Timacum Minus

Timacum Minus, a Roman fort and mining-administration settlement near Ravna, eastern Serbia, on the Beli Timok. Garrisoned by cohors I Thracum Syriaca and II Aurelia Dardanorum; center of Territoria metallorum; destroyed by Huns around 441.

Timpanogos Cave National Monument

Timpanogos Cave National Monument is a 250-acre National Park System unit in Utah's Wasatch Range, protecting three limestone caves known for helictites and aragonite frostwork, established in 1922.

Tincausari

Tincausari (also Tinci Ausari) was a Roman road station on the Greater Syrtis coast in Libya, cited in the Antonine Itinerary and Tabula Peutingeriana, tentatively identified with Sueia, catalogued at Barrington Atlas 37 E2.

Tincontium

Tincontium (Tincollo, Tinconcium), a Roman road station in Gaul identified with Sancoins, Cher, France, on the Bourges–Decize road between Avaricum and Deccidae per the Antonine Itinerary and Tabula Peutingeriana.