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Megalithic site
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Beinan megalithic site, Nanwang, Beinan
Taitung City, 臺東縣, Taiwan
Beinan megalithic site, Nanwang, Beinan is a megalithic site of sacred significance. Approximate coordinates: 22.79147, 121.11982. Attributes: built, cultural, archaeological. Located in 臺東市, 臺東縣, 臺灣.
Carrowkeel
County Sligo, Ballymote-Tubbercurry Municipal District, Ireland
Carrowkeel is a megalithic site of sacred significance. Approximate coordinates: 54.05727, -8.37908. Attributes: built, cultural, archaeological. Carrowkeel may refer to the following places in Ireland: Carrowkeel, County Galway, a townland Carrowkeel Megalithic Cemetery, County Sligo Kerrykeel, County Donegal, known as Carrowkeel in census returns, is a village by Mulroy Bay Quigley s Point, sometimes known as Carrowkeel, is a village in County Donegal, north of Derry, on Lough Foyle Located in Ballymote-Tubbercurry Municipal District, Éire / Ireland.
Carrowmore
County Sligo, Sligo Municipal Borough District, Ireland
Carrowmore is a megalithic site of sacred significance. Approximate coordinates: 54.25081, -8.51932. Attributes: built, cultural, archaeological, ceremonial. Tradition: Neolithic. Carrowmore (Irish: An Cheathrú Mhór, the great quarter ) is a large group of megalithic monuments on the Coolera Peninsula to the west of Sligo, Ireland. They were built in the 4th millennium BC, during the Neolithic (New Stone Age). There are thirty surviving tombs, making Carrowmore one of the largest clusters of megalithic tombs in Ireland, and one of the big four along with Carrowkeel, Loughcrew and Brú na Bóinne. Carrowmore is the heart of an ancient ritual landscape which is dominated by the mountain of Knocknarea to the west. It is a protected National Monument. Located in Sligo Municipal Borough District, Éire / Ireland.
Daorson megalithic site, Bosnia
Poprati, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Daorson megalithic site, Bosnia is a megalithic site of sacred significance. Approximate coordinates: 43.10404, 17.92685. Attributes: built, cultural, archaeological. Located in Federacija Bosne i Hercegovine, Bosna i Hercegovina / Босна и Херцеговина.
Dulan megalithic site, Dulan
Donghe, 臺東縣, Taiwan
Dulan megalithic site, Dulan is a megalithic site of sacred significance. Approximate coordinates: 22.88487, 121.21954. Attributes: built, cultural, archaeological. Located in 東河鄉, 臺東縣, 臺灣.
Emmen
Emmen, Drenthe, Netherlands
Emmen is a megalithic site of sacred significance. Approximate coordinates: 52.79317, 6.88819. Attributes: built, cultural, archaeological. Emmen may refer to: Emmen, Netherlands, a town and municipality in the Province of Drenthe FC Emmen, an association football club Emmen, Overijssel, a hamlet in the municipality of Dalfsen Emmen, Switzerland, a city in the Canton of Lucerne Emmen, Germany, a village in the district Gifhorn, Lower Saxony Located in Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland.
Gunung Padang megalithic site
Cianjur, West Java, Indonesia
Gunung Padang megalithic site is a megalithic site of sacred significance. Approximate coordinates: -6.99359, 107.05629. Attributes: built, cultural, archaeological. Located in Jawa Barat, Indonesia.
Harold’s Stones
Trellech, Monmouthshire, United Kingdom
Harold’s Stones is a megalithic site of sacred significance. Approximate coordinates: 51.74277, -2.72659. Attributes: cultural, archaeological. Located in Cymru / Wales, United Kingdom.
Karahundj
Syunik Province, Armenia
Karahundj is a megalithic site of sacred significance. Approximate coordinates: 39.55173, 46.02873. Attributes: built, cultural, archaeological. Located in Սյունիքի մարզ, Հայաստան.
Malko Tarnovo
Malko Tarnovo, Burgas, Bulgaria
Malko Tarnovo is a megalithic site of sacred significance. Approximate coordinates: 41.97953, 27.52650. Attributes: built, cultural, archaeological. Tradition: Christianity. Malko Tarnovo (Bulgarian: Малко Търново [ˈmaɫko ˈtɤrnovo], Little Tarnovo ; as opposed to Veliko Tarnovo) is a town in Burgas Province, southeastern Bulgaria, 5 km from the Turkish border. It is the only town in the interior of the Bulgarian Strandzha Mountains and lies in Strandzha Nature Park. Malko Tarnovo is the administrative centre of the homonymous Malko Tarnovo Municipality. As of December 2009, the town had 2,449 inhabitants. Christianity is the dominant religion in the town, where an Eastern Orthodox and an Eastern Rite Catholic church exist. According to Lyubomir Miletich s demographic survey of the Ottoman province of Edirne in The Destruction of Thracian Bulgarians in 1913, published in 1918, before the wars Malko Tarnovo was a district centre inhabited by 1,200 Bulgarian Exarchist families and 80 Eastern Catholic Bulgarian families. Before the Balkan Wars (1912–1913), Malko Tarnovo was a township (kaza) of the Kırklareli sanjak in Edirne vilayet as Tırnovacık that was ceded to Bulgaria following the wars. Since 25 October 1913, it has been within the borders of Bulgaria. Located in Бургас, Bulgaria.
Megaliths of Carnac
Carnac, Brittany, France
Carnac is a megalithic site of sacred significance. Approximate coordinates: 47.59258, -3.08254. Attributes: built, cultural, archaeological. Tradition: Neolithic. Carnac (French pronunciation: [kaʁnak]; Breton: Karnag, pronounced [ˈkaːʁnaɡ]) is a commune beside the Gulf of Morbihan on the south coast of Brittany in the Morbihan department in north-western France. Its inhabitants are called Carnacois in French. Carnac is renowned for the Carnac stones – one of the most extensive Neolithic menhir collections in the world – as well as its beaches, which are popular with tourists. Located on a narrow peninsula halfway between the medieval town Vannes and the seaside resort Quiberon, Carnac is split into two centres: Carnac-Ville and Carnac-Plage (the beachfront). In total there are five beaches, including la Grande Plage, and further to the east, Plage Men Dû and Beaumer. Located in Carnac, Bretagne, France.