ABSTRACT
From the Taj Mahal to the Parthenon, from Gettysburg to Heidelberg, from Beacon Hill to Tower Hill, from the Great Wall to Hadrian's Wall, from Jerusalem to Kyoto, the International Dictionary of Historic Places presents some 1,000 comprehensive and fully illustrated histories of the most famous sites in the world. Entries include: location, description, and site office details; and a 3,000 to 4,000 word essay that provides a full history of the site and the condition of the site today. An annotated Further Reading list of books and articles about the site completes each entry.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
entry 1|5 pages
Āgra (Uttar Pradesh, India)
entry 2|4 pages
Ahmadābad (Gujarāt, India)
entry 3|4 pages
Aizu-Wakamatsu (Fukushima, Japan)
entry 4|6 pages
Ajanta (Mahārāshtra, India)
entry 5|4 pages
Ajmer (Rājasthān, India)
entry 6|3 pages
Amber (Rājasthān, India)
entry 7|4 pages
Amritsar (Punjab, India)
entry 8|4 pages
Angkor (Siem Reap, Cambodia)
entry 9|5 pages
Anuradhapura (Sri Lanka)
entry 10|4 pages
Anyang (Henan, China)
entry 11|3 pages
Ayers Rock (Northern Territory, Australia)
entry 12|5 pages
Ayodhyā (Uttar Pradesh, India)
entry 13|8 pages
Ayutthaya (Ayutthaya, Thailand)
entry 14|5 pages
Bago (Myanmar)
entry 15|6 pages
Bali (Bali, Indonesia)
entry 16|4 pages
Balkh (Balkh, Afghanistan)
entry 17|4 pages
Ballarat (Victoria, Australia)
entry 18|3 pages
Bāmiān (Bāmiān, Afghanistan)
entry 19|5 pages
Ban Chiang (Udon Thani, Thailand)
entry 20|5 pages
Banda (Maluku, Indonesia)
entry 21|4 pages
Bangalore (Karnātaka, India)
entry 22|5 pages
Bangkok (Thailand)
entry 23|4 pages
Banten (West Java, Indonesia)
entry 24|4 pages
Beijing (China): Forbidden City
entry 25|4 pages
Beijing (China): Tiananmen Square
entry 26|4 pages
Bengkulu (Bengkulu, Indonesia)
entry 27|4 pages
Bhopāl (Madhya Pradesh, India)
entry 28|4 pages
Bhubaneswar (Orissa, India)
entry 29|4 pages
Bijāpur (Karnātaka, India)
entry 30|5 pages
Bīkaner (Rājasthan, India)
entry 31|4 pages
Bishnupur (West Bengal, India)
entry 32|4 pages
Bodh Gayā (Bihār, India)
entry 33|5 pages
Bombay (Mahārāshtra, India)
entry 34|6 pages
Borobudur (Central Java, Indonesia)
entry 35|5 pages
Botany Bay (New South Wales, Australia)
entry 36|5 pages
Brunei Darussalam
entry 37|5 pages
Bukhara (Bukhara, Uzbekistan)
entry 38|4 pages
Buxar (Bihār, India)
entry 39|5 pages
Calcutta (West Bengal, India)
entry 40|5 pages
Cebu City (Cebu, Philippines)
entry 41|4 pages
Chiang Mai (Chiang Mai, Thailand)
entry 42|5 pages
Chittagong (Chittagong, Bangladesh)
entry 43|4 pages
Chittaurgarh (Rājasthān, India)
entry 44|4 pages
Chŏnju (North Chŏlla, South Korea)
entry 45|5 pages
Colombo (Sri Lanka)
entry 46|4 pages
Corregidor Island (Cavite, Philippines)
entry 47|4 pages
Darwin (Northern Territory, Australia)
entry 48|6 pages
Datong (Shanxi, China)
entry 49|7 pages
Delhi (Delhi, India)
entry 50|5 pages
Dhākā (Dhākā, Bangladesh)
entry 51|4 pages
Dien Bien Phu (Vietnam)
entry 52|5 pages
Dunedin (South Island, New Zealand)
entry 53|3 pages
Dunhuang (Gansu, China): Dunhuang Town
entry 54|5 pages
Dunhuang (Gansu, China): Mogao Caves
entry 55|5 pages
Easter Island (Rapa Nui or Isla de Pascua; dependency of Chile)
entry 56|4 pages
Elephanta Island (Mahārāshtra, India)
entry 57|4 pages
Ellora (Mahārāshtra, India)
entry 58|4 pages
Fatehpur Sīkri (Uttar Pradesh, India)
entry 59|5 pages
Fiji
entry 60|3 pages
Fujinomiya (Shizuoka, Japan)
entry 61|4 pages
Galle (Sri Lanka)
entry 62|3 pages
Gayā (Bihār, India)
entry 63|5 pages
Ghaznī (Ghaznī, Afghanistan)
entry 64|6 pages
Goa (India)
entry 65|3 pages
Golconda (Andhra Pradesh, India)
entry 66|5 pages
The Great Wall (China)
entry 67|4 pages
Guadalcanal (Solomon Islands)
entry 68|6 pages
Guangzhou (Guangdong, China)
entry 69|4 pages
Guwāhāti (Assam, India)
entry 70|5 pages
Gwalior (Madhya Pradesh, India)
entry 71|4 pages
Hakodate (Hokkaidō, Japan)
entry 72|4 pages
Hami (Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, China)
entry 73|4 pages
Hangzhou (Zhejiang, China)
entry 74|4 pages
Hanoi (Vietnam)
entry 75|5 pages
Herāt (Herāt, Afghanistan)
entry 76|2 pages
Hikone (Shiga, Japan)
entry 77|5 pages
Hirado (Nagasaki, Japan)
entry 78|4 pages
Hirosaki (Aomori, Japan)
entry 79|4 pages
Hiroshima (Hiroshima, Japan)
entry 80|5 pages
Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam)
entry 81|4 pages
Hong Kong
entry 82|4 pages
Hue (Vietnam)
entry 83|5 pages
Hyderābād (Andhra Pradesh, India)
entry 84|3 pages
Hyderābād (Sind, Pakistan)
entry 85|5 pages
Ise (Mie, Japan)
entry 86|4 pages
Iwo Jima (Volcano Islands, Japan)
entry 87|5 pages
Jaipur (Rājasthān, India)
entry 88|7 pages
Jaisalmer (Rājasthān, India)
entry 89|4 pages
Jakarta (Special Capital City Territory, Indonesia)
entry 90|4 pages
Jodhpur (Rājasthān, India)
entry 91|5 pages
Jolo (Sulu, Philippines)
entry 92|6 pages
Junāgadh (Gujarāt, India)
entry 93|6 pages
Kābul (Kābul, Afghanistan)
entry 94|6 pages
Kaifeng (Henan, China)
entry 95|5 pages
Kamakura (Kanagawa, Japan)
entry 96|4 pages
Kanazawa (Ishikawa, Japan)
entry 97|4 pages
Kānchipuram (Tamil Nadu, India)
entry 98|4 pages
Kandahār (Kandahār, Afghanistan)
entry 99|5 pages
Kandy (Sri Lanka)
entry 100|3 pages
Karāchi (Sind, Pakistan)
entry 101|5 pages
Karakorum (Uburkhangai, Mongolia)
entry 102|4 pages
Kashgar (Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, China)
entry 103|4 pages
Kashihara (Nara, Japan)
entry 104|4 pages
Kāthmāndu (Nepal)
entry 105|5 pages
Khajurāho (Madhya Pradesh, India)
entry 106|5 pages
Khyber Pass (North-West Frontier, Pakistan; Kābul, Afghanistan)
entry 107|4 pages
Konārak (Orissa, India)
entry 108|7 pages
Kongju and Puyŏ (South Cu'hngch'ŏng, South Korea)
entry 109|4 pages
Kot Diji (Sind, Pakistan)
entry 110|4 pages
Krakatau (Indonesia)
entry 111|4 pages
Kuching (Sarawak, Malaysia)
entry 112|4 pages
Kumbakonam (Tamil Nādu, India)
entry 113|4 pages
Kurukshetra (Haryāna, India)
entry 114|6 pages
Kyŏngju (North Kyŏngsang, South Korea)
entry 115|7 pages
Kyōto (Kyōto, Japan)
entry 116|4 pages
Lahore (Punjab, Pakistan)
entry 117|4 pages
Lhasa (Tibet, Xizang Autonomous Region, China)
entry 118|4 pages
Luang Prabang (Luang Prabang, Laos)
entry 119|4 pages
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh, India)
entry 120|4 pages
Luoyang (Henan, China)
entry 121|5 pages
Macau
entry 122|5 pages
Madras (Tamil Nādu, India)
entry 123|4 pages
Mahābalipuram (Tamil Nādu, India)
entry 124|5 pages
Mandalay (Myanmar)
entry 125|4 pages
Māndu (Madhya Pradesh, India)
entry 126|7 pages
Manila (Manila, Philippines)
entry 127|6 pages
Mathurā (Uttar Pradesh, India)
entry 128|4 pages
Mazār-i-Sharīf (Balkh, Afghanistan)
entry 129|5 pages
Melaka (Melaka, Malaysia)
entry 130|5 pages
Miyajima (Hiroshima, Japan)
entry 131|3 pages
Miyazaki (Miyazaki, Japan)
entry 132|5 pages
Mohenjo-daro (Sind, Pakistan)
entry 133|3 pages
Mount Ābu (Rājasthan, India)
entry 134|5 pages
Mount Everest
entry 135|4 pages
Multān (Punjab, Pakistan)
entry 136|4 pages
Nagasaki (Nagasaki, Japan)
entry 137|5 pages
Nanjing (Jiangsu, China)
entry 138|4 pages
Nara (Nara, Japan)
entry 139|4 pages
Nāsik (Mahārāshtra, India)
entry 140|3 pages
Niah Caves (Sarawak, Malaysia)
entry 141|7 pages
Nikkō (Tochigi, Japan)
entry 142|5 pages
Norfolk Island (Australian External Territory, Australia)
entry 143|4 pages
Nouméa (South Province, New Caledonia)
entry 144|5 pages
Ōsaka (Ōsaka, Japan)
entry 145|4 pages
Pagan (Myanmar)
entry 146|4 pages
Paharpur (Rājshāhi, Bangladesh)
entry 147|4 pages
Palembang (South Sumatra, Indonesia)
entry 148|4 pages
Penang (Penang, Malaysia)
entry 149|4 pages
Peshāwar (North-West Frontier, Pakistan)
entry 150|6 pages
Pitcairn Island (Pitcairn Islands)
entry 151|5 pages
Plassey (West Bengal, India)
entry 152|4 pages
Polonnaruwa (Sri Lanka)
entry 153|4 pages
Port Arthur (Tasmania, Australia)
entry 154|5 pages
Prambanan (Central Java, Indonesia)
entry 155|4 pages
Puri (Orissa, India)
entry 156|3 pages
Qin Tomb (Shaanxi, China)
entry 157|3 pages
Quanzhou (Fujian, China)
entry 158|3 pages
Qufu (Shandong, China)
entry 159|4 pages
Quilon (Kerala, India)
entry 160|4 pages
Rāmeswaram (Tamil Nādu, India)
entry 161|5 pages
Samarkand (Samarkand, Uzbekistan)
entry 162|4 pages
Samoa (Western Samoa and American Samoa)
entry 163|5 pages
Sānchi (Madhya Pradesh, India)
entry 164|7 pages
Shanghai (China)
entry 165|5 pages
Shanhaiguan (Hebei, China)
entry 166|6 pages
Shenyang (Liaoning, China)
entry 167|4 pages
Shigatse (Tibet, Xizang Autonomous Region, China)
entry 168|3 pages
Sīgiriya (Sri Lanka)
entry 169|5 pages
Singapore
entry 170|5 pages
Somnāth (Gujarāt, India)
entry 171|4 pages
Srīnagar (Jammu and Kashmir, India)
entry 172|5 pages
Sukhothai (Thailand)
entry 173|5 pages
Suzhou (Jiangsu, China)
entry 174|4 pages
Sydney (New South Wales, Australia)
entry 175|5 pages
Tahiti (Society Islands, French Polynesia)
entry 176|5 pages
Tainan (Taiwan, China)
entry 177|3 pages
Takayama (Gifu, Japan)
entry 178|3 pages
Takht-i-Bahi (North West Frontier, Pakistan)
entry 179|4 pages
Tatta (Sind, Pakistan)
entry 180|4 pages
Taxila (Punjab, Pakistan)
entry 181|4 pages
Thanjāvūr (Tamil Nadu, India)
entry 182|5 pages
Tianjin (China)
entry 183|4 pages
Tokelau (Territory of New Zealand)
entry 184|5 pages
Tōkyō (Tōkyō, Japan)
entry 185|5 pages
Tonga
entry 186|3 pages
Tongariro (North Island, New Zealand)
entry 187|4 pages
Ujjain (Madhya Pradesh, India)
entry 188|4 pages
Ujung Pandang (South Sulawesi, Indonesia)
entry 189|4 pages
Vanuatu
entry 190|4 pages
Vārānasī (Uttar Pradesh, India)
entry 191|4 pages
Vientiane (Vientiane, Laos)
entry 192|4 pages
Vijayanagara (Karnātaka, India)
entry 193|4 pages
Waitangi (North Island, New Zealand)
entry 194|3 pages
Windsor (New South Wales, Australia)
entry 195|4 pages
Wuchang (Hubei, China)
entry 196|4 pages
Xian (Shaanxi, China)
entry 197|5 pages
Yanan (Shaanxi, China)
entry 198|5 pages
Yangon (Myanmar)
entry 199|4 pages
Yangzhou (Jiangsu, China)
entry 200|5 pages
Yogyakarta (Yogyakarta Special Territory, Indonesia)
entry 201|4 pages
Yungang Caves (Shanxi, China)
entry 202|4 pages
Zamboanga (Zamboanga del Sur, Philippines)
entry 203|5 pages
Zhengzhou (Henan, China)
