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Angkor was once the seat of the Khmer Empire, which ruled a large portion of Southeast Asia between the ninth and fifteenth centuries AD.

WMF partners with the National Trust for Historic Preservation and others to ensure the global artistic and social impact of Nina Simone's legacy live on.

The sacred Kulima Narayan pagoda temple in Kathmandu was built in the 18th century.

In the 16th and 17th centuries colonial Catholic missions were established in the Oyón Valley in Peru and built in a style described as Rural Andean Baroque.

The tombs at Pella are important examples of Macedonian tomb building and also provide key information for buildings of this period that are now lost.

Archaeological evidence indicates that Corfiot traders founded Butrint in the eighth century BC.

Located on the Russian-Finnish border, Paanajärvi is the last intact village in the district of Viena Karelia along the Kemi River.

The chapel of San Pedro de Mórrope was constructed in the 16th century during the Colonial period in Peru in an effort to convert the indigenous Mochica people to Christianity.

The andenería, or terraced landscape of Laraos, is believed to date to the pre-Inca period and is a defining feature of the steep slopes of the Peruvian Andes.

The first fortifications of San Lorenzo castle were built by prominent military engineer Juan Bautista Antonelli in 1595.

In 1911, at the time of the collapse of the Qing Dynasty in China, the independence of Outer Mongolia was proclaimed.

Twenty-six churches were built between 1630 and 1780 at Voskopojë, situated along the trade route from Venice to Constantinople in southeastern Albania.