Silk Roads Sites in Uzbekistan

Silk Roads Sites in Uzbekistan (2010) is a serial nomination consisting of 18 individual properties (27 if we consider that Termiz is a sub-serial nomination of 10 elements), all but one also on the TWHS list as individual elements.

It consists of remains of long-distance routes of integration, exchange and dialogue between the East and the West, from the 2nd century BC until the end of the 16th century. It consists of the ruins of ancient settlements representing different period of the road history, ancient monastery, mausoleum or religious buildings like minarets (representing various different religions from archaic belief to Zoroastrian, Buddhist, Islam and various state of conservation, from ruins to standing monuments) and forts and caravanserais protecting the Road.