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UNESCO
UNESCO

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations established on 16 November 1945....
's Memory of the World Programme is an international initiative launched in 1992 in order to guard against collective amnesia calling upon the preservation of the valuable archive holdings and library collections all over the world ensuring their wide dissemination.

The Memory of the World Register lists documentary heritage which has been identified by the International Advisory Committee in its meetings in Tashkent
Tashkent

Tashkent is the Capital of Uzbekistan and also of the Tashkent Province. The officially registered population of the city in 2008 was 2.18 million....
 (September 1997), in Vienna
Vienna

Vienna is the Capital of Republic of Austria and also one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.7 million...
 (June 1999), in Cheongju
Cheongju

Cheongju is the capital Administrative divisions of South Korea of Chungcheongbuk-do , South Korea. The city is divided into two wards , Heungdeok-gu and Sangdang-gu ....
 (June 2001), in Gdansk
Gdansk

Gdansk is the city at the centre of the fourth-largest metropolitan area in Poland. It is Poland's principal seaport as well as the capital of the Pomeranian Voivodeship....
 (August 2003), in Lijiang City
Lijiang City

Lijiang City is a prefecture-level city in northwestern Yunnan Province, People's Republic of China. It has an area of 21,219 square kilometers and a population of 1,137,600 as of 2005....
 (June 2005) and in Pretoria
Pretoria

Pretoria is a city located in the northern part of Gauteng Province, South Africa. It is one of the country's three Capital , serving as the Executive and de facto national capital; the others are Cape Town, the legislature capital, and Bloemfontein, the judicial capital....
 (June 2007), and endorsed by the Director-General of UNESCO as corresponding to the selection criteria for world significance.

Since 2005 UNESCO also presents the Jikji prize
Jikji prize

The UNESCO/Jikji Memory of the World Prize is a UNESCO prize to further promote the objectives of the Memory of the World Programme and to commemorate the inscription of the Jikji, the oldest known book of movable metal print in the world....
 to further promote the objectives of the Memory of the World Programme.

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Memory of the World
UNESCO
UNESCO

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations established on 16 November 1945....
's Memory of the World Programme is an international initiative launched in 1992 in order to guard against collective amnesia calling upon the preservation of the valuable archive holdings and library collections all over the world ensuring their wide dissemination.

The Memory of the World Register lists documentary heritage which has been identified by the International Advisory Committee in its meetings in Tashkent
Tashkent

Tashkent is the Capital of Uzbekistan and also of the Tashkent Province. The officially registered population of the city in 2008 was 2.18 million....
 (September 1997), in Vienna
Vienna

Vienna is the Capital of Republic of Austria and also one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.7 million...
 (June 1999), in Cheongju
Cheongju

Cheongju is the capital Administrative divisions of South Korea of Chungcheongbuk-do , South Korea. The city is divided into two wards , Heungdeok-gu and Sangdang-gu ....
 (June 2001), in Gdansk
Gdansk

Gdansk is the city at the centre of the fourth-largest metropolitan area in Poland. It is Poland's principal seaport as well as the capital of the Pomeranian Voivodeship....
 (August 2003), in Lijiang City
Lijiang City

Lijiang City is a prefecture-level city in northwestern Yunnan Province, People's Republic of China. It has an area of 21,219 square kilometers and a population of 1,137,600 as of 2005....
 (June 2005) and in Pretoria
Pretoria

Pretoria is a city located in the northern part of Gauteng Province, South Africa. It is one of the country's three Capital , serving as the Executive and de facto national capital; the others are Cape Town, the legislature capital, and Bloemfontein, the judicial capital....
 (June 2007), and endorsed by the Director-General of UNESCO as corresponding to the selection criteria for world significance.

Since 2005 UNESCO also presents the Jikji prize
Jikji prize

The UNESCO/Jikji Memory of the World Prize is a UNESCO prize to further promote the objectives of the Memory of the World Programme and to commemorate the inscription of the Jikji, the oldest known book of movable metal print in the world....
 to further promote the objectives of the Memory of the World Programme.

=List by country=

Albania
Albania

Albania , officially the Republic of Albania , is a country in Balkans. It is bordered by Greece to the south-east, Montenegro to the north, Kosovo to the northeast, and the Republic of Macedonia to the east....

  • Codex Purpureus Beratinus
    Codex Beratinus

    Codex Beratinus designed by F or 043 , e 17 , is the Greek uncial codex of the New Testament. Dated Paleography to the 6th century manuscript in an uncial hand on purple vellum with silver ink....
     (2005)


Argentina
Argentina

Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic , is a country in South America, constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city....

  • Documents of the Viceroyalty of Rio de Plata (1997)
    National Archives, Buenos Aires


Armenia
Armenia

Armenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in South Caucasus between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea....

  • Mashtots Matenadaran Ancient Manuscripts (1997)
    Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts
    Matenadaran

    The Matenadaran or Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts in Yerevan, Armenia, is one of the richest depositories of manuscripts and books in the world....
    , Yerevan


Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....

  • Endeavour Journal of James Cook
    James Cook

    Captain James Cook Royal Society Royal Navy was an English explorer, navigator and cartographer, ultimately rising to the rank of Captain in the Royal Navy....
     (2001)
    National Library of Australia, Canberra
  • Mabo Case
    Mabo v Queensland

    Mabo v Queensland was a landmark case Australian court case which was decided by the High Court of Australia on June 3, 1992. The effective result of the judgement was to make irrelevant the declaration of terra nullius, or "land belonging to no-one" which had been taken to occur from the commencement United Kingdom colonisation in...
     Manuscripts (2001)
    National Library of Australia, Canberra
  • The Story of the Kelly Gang
    The Story of the Kelly Gang

    The Story of the Kelly Gang is generally regarded as the world's first feature film, preceding D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation by nine years....
     (2007)
  • Convict Records of Australia (2007)
  • Landmark Constitutional Documents of the Commonwealth of Australia (2008)


Austria
Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It borders both Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west....

  • Vienna Dioscurides
    Vienna Dioscurides

    The Vienna Dioscurides is an early 6th-century copy of De Materia Medica by Dioscurides. It is an important and rare example of a late antique scientific text....
     (1997)
    Austrian National Library, Vienna
  • Final Document of the Congress of Vienna
    Congress of Vienna

    The Congress of Vienna was a conference of ambassadors of European states chaired by the Austrian statesman Klemens Wenzel von Metternich, and held in Vienna from September, 1814 to June, 1815....
     (1997)
    Austrian State Archives, Vienna
  • Historical Collections (1899-1950) (1999)
    Phonogrammarchiv, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna
  • Papyrus Erzherzog Rainer (2001)
    Austrian National Library, Vienna
  • Vienna City Library's Schubert Collection (2001)
    Vienna City Library, Vienna
  • Atlas Blaeu-Van der Hem of the Austrian National Library (2003)
  • Brahms Collection (2005)
  • Collection of Gothic Architectural Drawings (2005)
  • Tabula Peutingeriana
    Tabula Peutingeriana

    The Tabula Peutingeriana is an itinerarium showing the cursus publicus, the road network in the Roman Empire. The original map of which this is a unique copy was last revised in the fourth or early fifth century....
     (2007)


Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan , officially the Republic of Azerbaijan , is the largest and most populous country in the South Caucasus, located partially in Eastern Europe and partially in Western Asia....

  • Medieval manuscripts on medicine and pharmacy (2005)


Barbados
Barbados

Barbados , situated just east of the Caribbean Sea, is an independent Continental Island-island nation in the western Atlantic Ocean. Located at roughly 13? North of the equator and 59? West of the prime meridian, it is considered a part of the Lesser Antilles....

  • Documentary Heritage of Enslaved Peoples of the Caribbean (2003)


Belgium
Belgium

* A small German-speaking Community of Belgium exists in eastern Wallonia. Belgium's linguistic diversity and related political and cultural conflicts are reflected in the history of Belgium and a complex Communities and regions of Belgium....

  • Business Archives of the Officina Plantiniana (2001)
    Museum Plantin-Moretus, Antwerpen


Benin
Benin

Benin , officially the Republic of Benin, is a country in West Africa. It borders Togo to the west, Nigeria to the east and Burkina Faso and Niger to the north; its short coastline to the south leads to the Bight of Benin....

  • Colonial archives (1997)
    National Archives, Porto Novo


Brazil
Brazil

Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is a country in South America. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, occupying nearly half of South America, the List of countries by population country, and the fourth most populous democracy in the world....

  • Emperor's collection: foreign and Brazilian photography in the XIX century (2003)


Canada
Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....

  • Hudson's Bay Company Archives
    Hudson's Bay Company Archives

    The Hudson's Bay Company Archives are located in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. The HBC archives are a division of the Archives of Manitoba that preserves the thousands of mainly hand written records and maps of the Hudson's Bay Company employees for hundreds of years....
     (2007)
  • Quebec Seminary collections from New France to early British regime (2007)


Chile
Chile

Chile, officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long and narrow coastal strip wedged between the Andes mountains and the Pacific Ocean....

  • Human Rights Archive (2003)
  • Jesuits of America (2003)


China
China

China is a Culture of China, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia....

  • Traditional Music Sound Archives (1997)
    Music Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Arts, Beijing
  • Records of the Qing's Grand Secretariat (1999)
    First Historical Archives of China, Palace Museum, Beijing
  • Ancient Naxi
    Nakhi

    The Nakhi are an List of Chinese ethnic groups inhabiting the foothills of the Himalayas in the northwestern part of Yunnan Provinces of China, as well as the southwestern part of Sichuan Provinces of China in China....
     Dongba
    Dongba

    The term Dongba literally refers to the religious priests, the culture, and writing system of the Nakhi people, who are found in southwestern China....
     Literature Manuscripts (2003)
  • Golden Lists of the Qing Dynasty Imperial Examination (2005)
  • Qing Dynasty Yangshi Lei Archives (2007)


Colombia
Colombia

Colombia , officially the Republic of Colombia , is a country in north-western South America. Colombia is bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the north west by Panama; and to the west by the Pacific Ocean....

  • Negros y Esclavos Archives (2005)


Cuba
Cuba

The Republic of Cuba is a country in the Caribbean. It consists of the island of Cuba , the island of Isla de la Juventud, and several adjacent small islands....

  • “José Martí Pérez” Fonds (2005)


Denmark
Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in northern Europe and the senior member of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries....

  • Archives of the Danish overseas trading companies (1997)
    Danish National Archives, Copenhagen
  • Linné Collection (1997)
    Danish National Library of Sciences and Medicine, Copenhagen
  • Manuscripts and correspondence of Hans Christian Andersen
    Hans Christian Andersen

    Hans Christian Andersen , also known as simply H. C. Andersen ); was a Denmark author and poet, most famous for his fairy tales. Among his best-known stories are "The Steadfast Tin Soldier", "The Snow Queen", "The Little Mermaid", "Thumbelina", "The Little Match Girl", "The Ugly Duckling" and "The Red Shoes "....
     (1997)
    Manuscript Department, Royal Library, Copenhagen
  • Sřren Kierkegaard
    Sřren Kierkegaard

    S?ren Aabye Kierkegaard was a prolific 19th century Denmark philosopher and theologian. Kierkegaard strongly criticised both the Hegelianism of his time, and what he saw as the empty ceremony of the Church of Denmark....
     Archives (1997)
    Manuscript Department, Royal Library, Copenhagen


Egypt
Egypt

Egypt is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Western Asia. Covering an area of about , Egypt borders the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Gaza Strip and Israel to the northeast, the Red Sea to the east, Sudan to the south and Libya to the west....

  • Memory of the Suez Canal (1997)
    Cultural Bureau, Egyptian Embassy, Paris
  • Deeds of Sultans and Princes (2005)


Ethiopia
Ethiopia

Ethiopia , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country situated in the Horn of Africa. Ethiopia is bordered by Eritrea to the north, Sudan to the west, Kenya to the south, Somalia to the east and Djibouti to the northeast....

  • Treasures from National Archives and Library Organizations (1997)
    National Archives and Library, Addis Ababa


Finland
Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland , is a Nordic countries situated in the Fennoscandian region of northern Europe. It borders Sweden on the west, Russia on the east, and Norway on the north, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland....

  • A.E. Nordenskiöld
    Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld

    Baron Adolf Erik Nordenski?ld , also known as A. E. Nordenskioeld was a Finland geologist, mineralogist and arctic explorer and a member of the prominent Finland-Swedish Nordenski?ld noble family of scientists....
     Collection (1997)
    University Library
    University of Helsinki

    The University of Helsinki is a university located in Helsinki, Finland since 1829, but founded in the city of Turku 1640 as The Royal Academy of Turku....
    , Helsinki
    Helsinki

    Helsinki is the Capital and largest List of cities and towns in Finland of Finland. It is in the southern part of Finland, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, by the Baltic Sea....


France
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....

  • Bayeux Tapestry
    Bayeux Tapestry

    The Bayeux Tapestry is a 50 cm by 70 m long embroidery cloth?not an actual tapestry?which explains the events leading up to the Norman conquest of England as well as the events of the invasion itself....
     (2007)
  • Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
    Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen

    The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen is a fundamental document of the French Revolution, defining the individual and collective rights of all the estates of the realm as universal....
     (1789-1791) (2003)
  • The Appeal of 18 June 1940 (2005)
  • Lumičre Films (2005)
  • Introduction of the decimal metric system, 1790-1837 (2005)


Germany
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....

  • Early cylinder recordings of the world's musical traditions (1893-1952) in the Berlin Phonogramm-Archiv (1999)
    Phonogrammarchiv, Museum of Ethnology, Berlin
  • Ludwig van Beethoven
    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. He was a crucial figure in the transitional period between the Classical music era and Romantic music eras in classical music, and remains one of the most acclaimed and influential composers of all time....
     - Symphony n°9, d-minor, op.125 (2001)
    State Library, Berlin
  • Literary estate of Goethe
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

    was a Germans writer and according to George Eliot, "Germany's greatest man of letters? and the last true polymath to walk the earth." Goethe's works span the fields of poetry, drama, literature, theology, philosophy, humanism and science....
     (2001)
    Goethe and Schiller Archives, Weimar
  • 42-line Gutenberg Bible
    Gutenberg Bible

    The Gutenberg Bible is a printed version of the Latin Vulgate translation of the Bible that was printed by Johannes Gutenberg, in Mainz, Germany in the fifteenth century....
     (2001)
    State and Universitary Library of Lower Saxonia, Goettingen
  • Metropolis film (2001)
    Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation, Wiesbaden
  • Illuminated manuscripts from the Ottonian period produced in the monastery of Reichenau (Lake Constance) (2003)
  • Kinder- und Hausmärchen
    Grimm's Fairy Tales

    Children's and Household Tales is a collection of Germany origin fairy tales first published in 1812 by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm, the Brothers Grimm....
     (Children’s and Household Tales) (2005)
  • World map
    Waldseemüller map

    The Waldseem?ller map, Universalis Cosmographia, is a wall map of the world drawn by Germany cartography Martin Waldseem?ller originally published in April 1507....
     "Universalis cosmographia secundum Ptholomaei traditionem et Americi Vespucii aliorumque Lustrationes" by Martin Waldseemüller. In possession of the Library of Congress, Washington (D.C.) since 2003 (2005)


Hungary
Hungary

Hungary , officially in English the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in the Carpathian Basin of Central Europe, bordered by Austria, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, and Slovenia....

  • Kálmán Tihanyi
    Kálmán Tihanyi

    K?lm?n Tihanyi , was a Hungary physicist, electrical engineer and inventor. A pioneer of electronic television, he made significant contributions to the development of Cathode Ray Tubes which were bought and further developed by the Radio Corporation of America , and Germany companies Loewe and Fernseh AG....
    's 1926 Patent Application "Radioskop" (2001)
    National Archives of Hungary, Budapest
  • The Bibliotheca Corviniana Collection (2005)
  • Tabula Hungariae, the firs lithographic map of the Kingdom of Hungary
    Kingdom of Hungary

    The Kingdom of Hungary , which existed from 1000 to 1918, and then from 1920 to 1946, was a considerable state in Central Europe....
     made by     Lazarus secretarius in 1528 (2007)
    National Széchényi Library
    National Széchényi Library

    The library is located in Budapest; it is the national library of Hungary....
    , Budapest


India
India

India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world....

  • I.A.S. Tamil Medical Manuscript Collection (ancient system of medicine) (1997):- preserved at the Institute of Asian Studies, Tamil Nadu
    Tamil Nadu

    Tamil Nadu is one of the 28 States and territories of India of India. Its capital and largest city is Chennai . Tamil Nadu lies in the southern most part of the Indian Peninsula and is bordered by Puducherry , Kerala, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh....
  • Saiva Manuscripts (Saiva-siddhanta
    Shaiva Siddhanta

    Shaiva Siddhanta is a Saivite Hindu school that encompasses tens of millions of adherents, predominantly in Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka . Today it has thousands of active temples there and dozens of Monasticism/Asceticism traditions: twenty-five Brahmin families, the Adisaivas, are qualified to perform its rituals....
     Tamil Documentation) from Pondicherry, Tamil Nadu
    Tamil Nadu

    Tamil Nadu is one of the 28 States and territories of India of India. Its capital and largest city is Chennai . Tamil Nadu lies in the southern most part of the Indian Peninsula and is bordered by Puducherry , Kerala, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh....
     (2005)
  • The RigVeda
    Rigveda

    The Rigveda is an ancient Indian subcontinent sacred collection of Vedic Sanskrit hymns dedicated to the Rigvedic deities . It is counted among the four canonical sacred texts of Hinduism known as the Vedas....
     (2007)


Italy
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....

  • The Malatesta Novello Library (2005), Malatestiana Library
    Malatestiana Library

    The Malatestiana Library , also known as the Malatesta Novello Library, is a public library in Cesena, Emilia-Romagna . It was the first Italy civic library, i.e....
    , Cesena
    Cesena

    Cesena is a city in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy, south of Ravenna and west of Rimini, on the Savio River, co-chief of the Province of province of Forl?-Cesena....


Iran
Iran

Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran and formerly known internationally as Persian Empire until 1935, is a country in Central Eurasia, located on the northeastern shore of the Persian Gulf and the southern shore of the Caspian Sea....

  • “Bayasanghori Shâhnâmeh” (Prince Bayasanghor’s Book of the Kings
    Shahnameh

    File:Ferdowsi tehran.jpg Shahnam?, or Shahnama , "The Great Book" , is an enormous poetic opus written by the Persian literature Ferdowsi around 1000 AD and is the national epic of Iran....
    ) (2007)
  • The Deed For Endowment: Rab’ I-Rashidi (Rab I-Rashidi Endowment) 13th Century manuscript (2007)


Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan, also Kazakstan , officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a large Eurasian country in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. Ranked as the List of countries by area as well as the world's largest landlocked country, it has a territory of 2,727,300 km? ....

  • Collection of manuscripts of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi (2003)
  • Audiovisual documents of the International antinuclear movement “Nevada-Semipalatinsk” (2005)


Korea
Korea

Korea is a geographic area composed of two sovereign countries, a civilization, and a former state situated on the Korean Peninsula in East Asia....

  • Hunmin Jeongeum
    Hunmin Jeongeum

    Promulgated in September or October 1446, Hunminjeongeum was an entirely new and native writing system for the Korean people. The script was initially named after the publication, but later came to be known as hangul....
     manuscript (1997), Gansong Art Museum
    Gansong Art Museum

    Gansong Art Museum is the first modern private museum of Korea and was founded by Jeon Hyeongpil in 1938. The museum was named after the pen name of the founder, Gansong ....
    , Seoul
  • Annals of the Joseon Dynasty (1997), Mount Jeongjok Archive Edition, Seoul
  • Jikji
    Jikji

    Jikji is the abbreviated title of a Korean Buddhist document, whose full title can be translated "The Monk Baegun's Anthology of the Great Priests' Teachings on Identification of the Buddha?s Spirit by the Practice of Seon." Printed during the Goryeo Dynasty in 1377, it is the world's oldest extant movable metal print book....
     (Buljo jikji simche yojeol (vol. II)), the second volume of "Anthology of Great Buddhist Priests’ Zen Teachings" (2001), Bibliothčque nationale de France, Paris
  • Seungjeongwon ilgi
    Seungjeongwon ilgi

    Seungjeongwon ilgi or Diary of the Royal Secretariat is a daily record of Seungjeongwon, Royal Secretariat during the Joseon Dynasty of Korea , which records the king?s public life and his interactions with the bureaucracy on a daily basis....
    , the Diaries of the Royal Secretariat (2001), Kyujanggak
    Kyujanggak

    The Kyujanggak was the royal library of the Joseon Dynasty, and functions today as a key repository of Korean historical records. It was founded in 1776 during the reign of Jeongjo, at which time it was located on the palace grounds of Changdeokgung....
     Library and Seoul National University
    Seoul National University

    Seoul National University , colloquially known in Korean as Seouldae , is a public research university located in Seoul, Republic of Korea, ranked 1st in the world and 1st in Asia by US News and World Report , and 24th in the world in publications by the Science Citation Index....
    , Seoul
  • Tripitaka Koreana
    Tripitaka Koreana

    The Tripitaka Koreana or Palman Daejanggyeong is a Korean collection of the Tripitaka , carved onto 81,340 wooden printing blocks in the 13th century....
     (2007), Haeinsa
    Haeinsa

    Haeinsa is one of the foremost Chogye Buddhist temples in South Korea. It is most notable for being the home of the Tripitaka Koreana, the whole of the Buddhist Scriptures carved onto 81,258 wooden printing blocks, which it has housed since 1398....
     Temple, Hapcheon
  • Uigwe
    Uigwe

    Uigwe is a collection of royal Protocol s of the Korean Joseon Dynasty which records and prescribes through text and stylized illustration the important ceremonies and rites of the royal family....
    , Royal Protocols of the Joseon Dynasty (2007), Seoul, Some volume in Paris


Latvia
Latvia

Latvia The Latvians are a Baltic peoples culturally related to the Estonians and Lithuanians, with the Latvian language having many similarities with Lithuanian language, but not with the Estonian language....

  • Dainu skapis - Cabinet of Folksongs (2001)
    Archives of Latvian Folklore, Riga


Lebanon
Lebanon

Lebanon , officially the Republic of Lebanon or Lebanese Republic , is a country in Western Asia, on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea....

  • Commemorative stela of Nahr el-Kalb, Mount Lebanon (2005)
  • The Phoenician Alphabet (2005)


Luxembourg
Luxembourg

Luxembourg , officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg , is a small landlocked country in western Europe, bordered by Belgium, France, and Germany....

  • Family of Man (2003)


Malaysia
Malaysia

Malaysia is a federation that consists of States of Malaysia in Southeast Asia with a total landmass of . The capital city is Kuala Lumpur, while Putrajaya is the seat of the federal government....

  • Correspondence of the late Sultan of Kedah
    Abdul Hamid Halim

    Sultan Abdu'l Hamid Halim Shah II ibni Ahmad Taj ud-din al-Mukarram Shah KCMG, was the 28th Sultan of Kedah. He ruled from 1882 to 1943. He was the son of Sultan Ahmad Tajuddin III and Wan Hajar....
     (1882-1943) (2001)
    National Archives of Malaysia, Alor Setar
  • Hikayat Hang Tuah
    Hikayat Hang Tuah

    Hikayat Hang Tuah is a Malay people work of literature that tells the tale of the legendary Malay Muslim warrior Hang Tuah and his four warrior friends - Hang Jebat, Hang Kasturi, Hang Lekir and Hang Lekiu - who lived during the height of the Sultanate of Malacca in the 15th century....
     (2001)
    National Library of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur
  • Sejarah Melayu (the Malay Annals) (2001)
    Institute of Language and Literature, Kuala Lumpur


Mauritius
Mauritius

Mauritius , officially the Republic of Mauritius, , is an island nation off the coast of the African continent in the southwest Indian Ocean, about 900 kilometres east of Madagascar....

  • Records of the French Occupation of Mauritius (1997)
    Mauritius Archives, Petite Rivičre, Port Louis, Q-Bornes


Mexico
Mexico

The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federalism constitutionalism republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of Mexico....

  • Collection of Mexican Codices (1997)
    National Library of Anthropology and History, Mexico City
  • Codices from the Oaxaca Valley (1997)
    National Archives, Mexico City
  • Codex Techaloyan from Cuajimalpaz (1997)
    National Archives, Mexico City
  • Los olvidados
    Los olvidados

    Los Olvidados is a 1950 in film cinema of Mexico directed by Spain-Mexico filmaker Luis Bu?uel.?scar Dancigers, the producer, asked Bu?uel to direct this film after the success of the 1949 film El Gran Calavera....
     film by Luis Buńuel
    Luis Buńuel

    Luis Bu?uel Portol?s was a Spanish people-born filmmaker who worked mainly in France and Mexico, but also in his native Spain and in the United States....
     (2003)
    Filmoteca de la UNAM, Mexico
  • Biblioteca Palafoxiana (2005)
  • Amerindian Language Collection (2007)


Namibia
Namibia

Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in southern Africa on the Atlantic Ocean coast. It shares borders with Angola and Zambia to the north, Botswana to the east, and South Africa to the south....

  • Letter Journals of Hendrik Witbooi
    Hendrik Witbooi

    Hendrik Witbooi is the name of:* Hendrik Witbooi , 19th century Namaqua leader* Hendrik Witbooi , former deputy prime minister of Namibia...
     (2005)


Netherlands
Netherlands

The Netherlands is a country that is part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It is a parliamentary democratic constitutional monarchy. The Netherlands is located in North-West Europe, and bordered by the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east....

  • Library Ets Haim – Livraria Montezinos (2003)
  • Archives of the Dutch East India Company
    Dutch East India Company

    The Dutch East India Company was a trading company, which was established in 1602, when the States-General of the Netherlands granted it a 21-year monopoly to carry out colonial activities in Asia....
     (2003)


New Zealand
New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses , and numerous Islands of New Zealand, most notably Stewart Island/Rakiura and the Chatham Islands....

  • Treaty of Waitangi
    Treaty of Waitangi

    The Treaty of Waitangi is a treaty first signed on February 6, 1840, by representatives of the United Kingdom The Crown, and various Maori chiefs from the northern North Island of New Zealand....
     (1997)
    National Archives, Wellington
  • The 1893 Women's Suffrage Petition (1997)
    National Archives, Wellington


Norway
Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a constitutional monarchy in Northern Europe that occupies the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula....

  • The Leprosy Archives of Bergen (2001) including foreword in English *
    City Archives and Regional State Archives of Bergen, Bergen
  • Henrik Ibsen
    Henrik Ibsen

    Henrik Johan Ibsen was a major Nineteenth-century theatre Norway playwright of realism drama and poet. He is often referred to as the "father of modern drama" and is one of the founders of modernism in the theatre....
    : A Doll's House
    A Doll's House

    A Doll's House is an 1879 Play by Norway playwright Henrik Ibsen. Written one year after The Pillars of Society, the play was the first of Ibsen's to create a sensation and is now perhaps his most famous play, and required reading in many secondary schools and universities....
     (2001)
    National Library of Norway, Oslo
    Oslo

    is the Capital and largest List of cities in Norway in Norway.Metropolitan Oslo or the Greater Oslo Region makes up the third largest urban area in Scandinavia after Metropolitan Stockholm and Metropolitan Copenhagen....
  • Roald Amundsen
    Roald Amundsen

    Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen , was a Norwegian people Exploration of polar regions. He led the first Antarctica expedition to reach the South Pole between 1910 and 1912....
    's South Pole Expedition
    Amundsen's South Pole expedition

    Roald Amundsen's South Pole expedition was a Norway expedition to Antarctica aiming to be the first to reach the South Pole. The expedition was a success, with five of the mission arriving at the pole on December 14, 1911, beating Robert Falcon Scott and his ill-fated party by thirty-four days....
     (1910-1912) (2005)


Pakistan
Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country located in South Asia and borders Central Asia and the Middle East. It has a 1,046 kilometre coastline along the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Oman in the south, and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and People's Republic of China in th...

  • Jinnah Papers (1999)
    National Archives, Islamabad


Paraguay
Paraguay

Paraguay, officially the Republic of Paraguay , is one of the only two landlocked countries in South America . It lies on both banks of the Paraguay River and is bordered by Argentina to the south and southwest, Brazil to the east and northeast, and Bolivia to the northwest....

  • Archives of Terror (2000)


Philippines
Philippines

The Philippines, officially known as the Republic of the Philippines, is a country in Southeast Asia with Manila as its capital city. It comprises 7,107 islands in the western Pacific Ocean....

  • Philippine Paleographs (Hanunoo, Buid, Tagbanua and Pala'wan) (1999)
    National Museum, Manila
  • Radio Broadcast of the Philippine People Power Revolution (2003)


Poland
Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian Enclave and exclave, to the north....

  • Nicolaus Copernicus
    Nicolaus Copernicus

    Nicolaus Copernicus was the first astronomer to formulate a scientifically-based heliocentrism cosmology that displaced the Earth from the center of the universe....
    ' masterpiece "De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium
    De revolutionibus orbium coelestium

    De revolutionibus orbium coelestium , first printed in 1543 in Nuremberg, is the seminal work on Copernican heliocentrism and the masterpiece of astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus ....
    " (1999)
    Jagiellonian Library, Jagiellonian University, Kraków
    Kraków

    Krak?w , in English also spelled Krakow or Cracow , is one of the largest and oldest cities in Poland, with a population of 756,336 in 2007 ....
  • Warsaw Ghetto
    Warsaw Ghetto

    The Warsaw Ghetto was the largest of the Jewish ghettos located in the territory of General Government during the Second World War.The Warsaw Ghetto was established by the German General Government Hans Frank on October 16, 1940....
     Archives (Emanuel Ringelblum Archives) (1999)
    Jewish Historical Research Institute, Warsaw
    Warsaw

    Warsaw is the Capital and World's largest cities of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River roughly from both the Baltic Sea coast and the Carpathian Mountains....
  • The Masterpieces of Frédéric Chopin
    Frédéric Chopin

    Fr?d?ric Chopin was a composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic music period. He is widely regarded as the greatest Polish composer, and one of music's greatest tone poets....
     (1999)
    The Fryderyk Chopin Society, Warsaw
  • The General Confederation of Warsaw
    Warsaw Confederation (1573)

    The Warsaw Confederation , an important development in the history of Poland and history of Lithuania, is considered the formal beginning of religious freedom in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth....
     (2003)
  • 21 demands of MKS
    21 demands of MKS

    21 demands of MKS were a list of demands issued on 17 August 1980 by the Interfactory Strike Committee . The first demand was the right to create independent trade unions....
    , Gdansk
    Gdansk

    Gdansk is the city at the centre of the fourth-largest metropolitan area in Poland. It is Poland's principal seaport as well as the capital of the Pomeranian Voivodeship....
    , August 1980. The birth of the Solidarity
    Solidarity

    Solidarity is a Poland trade union federation founded in September 1980 at the Gdansk Shipyard, and originally led by Lech Walesa.Solidarity was the first non-communist trade union in a communist country....
     trade union – a massive social movement. (2003)
  • The Codex of Suprasl
    Codex of Suprasl

    Codex Suprasliensis is an 11th-century Early Cyrillic monument, the largest extant Old Church Slavonic Old_Church_Slavonic#The_canon_of_Old_Church_Slavonic manuscript and the oldest Slavic literary work in Poland....
    . (2007)


Portugal
Portugal

Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic , is a country on the Iberian Peninsula. Located in southwestern Europe, Portugal is the westernmost country of mainland Europe and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south and by Spain to the north and east....

  • Pero Vaz de Caminha
    Pęro Vaz de Caminha

    P?ro Vaz de Caminha...
    's     Letter to H. M. Manuel I about the finding of Brazil
    Carta de Pero Vaz de Caminha

    In his letter to Manuel I of Portugal, P?ro Vaz de Caminha gives what is considered by many today as being one of the most accurate accounts of what Brazil used to look like in 1500....
     (2005)
  • Corpo Cronológico (2007)
  • Treaty of Tordesillas
    Treaty of Tordesillas

    The Treaty of Tordesillas , signed at Tordesillas , June 7, 1494, divided the "newly discovered" lands outside Europe between Spanish Empire and Portuguese Empire along a north-south meridian 370 league west of the Cape Verde islands ....
     (2007)


Russian Federation

  • Archangel Gospel of 1092 (1997)
    Russian State Library
    Russian State Library

    The Russian State Library is the national library of Russia, located in Moscow. It is the largest in the country and one of the largest in the world....
    , Moscow
    Moscow

    Moscow is the capital and the largest types of inhabited localities in Russia of the Russian Federation. It is also the largest European cities and metropolitan areas, with the Moscow metropolitan area ranking among the largest urban areas in the world....
  • Khitrovo Gospel (1997)
    Russian State Library, Moscow
  • Slavonic publications in Cyrillic script of the 15th century (1997)
    Russian State Library, Moscow
  • Newspaper collections (1997)
    Russian State Library, Moscow
  • Maps of the Russian empire and its collection of the 18th century (1997)
    Russian State Library, Moscow
  • Russian posters of the end of the 19th and early 20th centuries (1997)
    Russian State Library, Moscow
  • Historical Collections (1889-1955) of St. Petersburg Phonogram Archives (2001)
    Institute of Russian Literature and Russian Academy of Sciences
    Russian Academy of Sciences

    The Russian Academy of Sciences consists of the national academy of Russia and a network of scientific research institutes from across the Russian Federation as well as auxiliary scientific and social units like libraries, publishers and hospitals....
    , St. Petersburg
    Saint Petersburg

    Saint Petersburg is a types of inhabited localities in Russia and a federal subjects of Russia of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea....


Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, KSA , is an Arab country and the largest country of the Arabian Peninsula. It is bordered by Jordan on the northwest, Iraq on the north and northeast, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates on the east, Oman on the southeast, and Yemen on the south....

  • Earliest Islamic (Kufic) inscription (2003)


Senegal
Senegal

Senegal , officially the Republic of Senegal, is a country south of the S?n?gal River in West Africa. Senegal is bounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Mauritania to the north, Mali to the east, and Guinea and Guinea-Bissau to the south....

  • Afrique occidentale française, AOF (1997)
    National Archives, Dakar


Serbia
Serbia

Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a country in Central Europe and Balkans Europe, covering the southern part of the Pannonian Plain and the central part of the Balkans....

  • Nikola Tesla
    Nikola Tesla

    Nikola Tesla was an inventor and a mechanical engineer and electrical engineer. Tesla was born in the village of Smiljan near the town of Gospic, in Croatia ....
    ’s Archive (2003)
  • Miroslav Gospels – Manuscript from 1180 (2005)


Slovakia
Slovakia

Slovakia . It was amended in September 1998 to allow direct election of the president and again in February 2001 due to EU admission requirements....

  • Illuminated Codices from the Library of the Bratislava Chapter House (1997)
    National Archives, Bratislava
  • Basagic Collection of Islamic Manuscripts (1997)
    University Library, Bratislava


South Africa
South Africa

The Republic of South Africa, also known by Official names of South Africa, is a country located at the southern tip of the continent of Africa....

  • The Bleek
    Wilhelm Bleek

    Wilhelm Heinrich Immanuel Bleek was a Germany linguistics. His work included A Comparative Grammar of South African Languages and his great project jointly executed with Lucy Lloyd: The Bleek and Lloyd Archive of |Xam language and !Kung language texts....
     collection (1997)
    University of Cape Town / South African Library, Cape Town


Spain
Spain

Spain or the Kingdom of Spain , is a country located in Southern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.The Spanish constitution does not establish any official denomination of the country, even though Espa?a , Estado espa?ol and Naci?n espa?ola are used interchangeably....

  • Treaty of Tordesillas
    Treaty of Tordesillas

    The Treaty of Tordesillas , signed at Tordesillas , June 7, 1494, divided the "newly discovered" lands outside Europe between Spanish Empire and Portuguese Empire along a north-south meridian 370 league west of the Cape Verde islands ....
     (2007)


Sweden
Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic countries on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden has land borders with Norway to the west and Finland to the northeast, and it is connected to Denmark by the ?resund Bridge in the south....

  • Astrid Lindgren
    Astrid Lindgren

    Astrid Anna Emilia Lindgren Ericsson was a Sweden author and screenwriter, whose many works were translated into 85 languages and published in more than 100 countries....
     Archives (2005)
  • Emanuel Swedenborg
    Emanuel Swedenborg

    was a Sweden scientist, philosopher, Christian mystic, and theologian. Swedenborg had a prolific career as an inventor and scientist. At the age of fifty-six he entered into a spiritual phase in which he experienced dreams and visions....
     Collection (2005)
  • Ingmar Bergman
    Ingmar Bergman

    Ernst Ingmar Bergman was a Sweden director, writer and Film producer for film, stage and television. He depicted bleakness and despair as well as comedy and hope in his explorations of the human condition....
     Collection (2007)


Tajikistan
Tajikistan

Tajikistan , officially the Republic of Tajikistan , is a mountainous landlocked country in Central Asia. Afghanistan borders to the south, Uzbekistan to the west, Kyrgyzstan to the north, and People's Republic of China to the east....

  • Ubayd Zakoni
    Obeid e zakani

    Nejam od-Din Obeyde Z?k?ni , or simply Ubayd-i Zakani , was a Persian people poet and satirist of the 14th century from the city of Qazvin....
    's "Kulliyat" and Hafez Sherozi
    Hafez

    Khwaja ?amsu d-Din Mu?ammad Hafez-e ?irazi , known by his pen name Hafez was the most celebrated Persian lyric poet and is often described as poet's poet....
    's "Gazalliyt" manuscript (XIV century) (2003)


Tanzania
Tanzania

Tanzania , officially the United Republic of Tanzania , is a country in East Africa that is bordered by Kenya and Uganda on the north, Rwanda, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the west, and Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique on the south....

  • German Records of the National Archives (1997)
    National Archives, Dar Es Salam
  • Collection of Arabic Manuscripts and Books (2003)


Thailand
Thailand

The Kingdom of Thailand is an independent country that lies in the heart of Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Laos and Myanmar, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the west by the Andaman Sea and Myanmar....

  • King Ram Khamhaeng Inscription
    Ramkhamhaeng the Great

    Ram Khamhaeng was the third king of the Phra Ruang dynasty, ruling the Sukhothai Kingdom from 1279-1298, during its most prosperous era. He is credited with the creation of the Thai alphabet and the firm establishment of Theravada Buddhism as the state religion of the kingdom....
     (2003)
  • nominated 30 March 2006
  • 21 February 2008.


Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago

The Republic of Trinidad and Tobago is an island country in the southern Caribbean, lying northeast of the South American country of Venezuela and south of Grenada in the Lesser Antilles....

  • The Derek Walcott
    Derek Walcott

    Derek Alton Walcott is a West Indies poet, playwright, writer and visual artist who writes mainly in English language. Born in Castries, St. Lucia, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992....
     Collection (1997)
    The Main Library, University of West Indies, St. Augustine
  • The Eric Williams
    Eric Williams

    Eric Eustace Williams was the first Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago of Trinidad and Tobago. He served from 1956 until his death in 1981. He was also a noted Caribbean historian....
     Collection (1999)
    The Main Library, University of West Indies, St. Augustine
  • The C.L.R. James Collection (2005)


Turkey
Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in southwest Asia and Thrace in the Balkans region of Southern Europe....

  • The Hittite
    Hittites

    The Hittites were an ancient Anatolian people who spoke a Hittite language of the Anatolian languages of the Indo-European languages family, and established a kingdom centered at Hattusa in north-central Anatolia ca....
     cuneiform
    Cuneiform

    Cuneiform can refer to:*Cuneiform script, an ancient writing system originating in Mesopotamia in the 4th millennium BC*Cuneiform , three bones in the human foot...
     tablets from Bogazköy (2001)
    Archaeological Museums of Istanbul
    Istanbul

    Istanbul is the largest city in Turkey, List of metropolitan areas in Europe by population, and List of cities proper by population in the world with a population of 12.6 million....
     and Museum of Anatolian Civilizations
    Museum of Anatolian Civilizations

    The Museum of Anatolian Civilizations is located on the south side of Ankara Castle in the Atpazari area in Ankara, Turkey. It consists of the old Ottoman Empire Mahmut Pasa bazaar storage building, and the Kursunlu Han....
     of Ankara
    Ankara

    Ankara is the capital city of Turkey and the country's List of largest cities and second largest cities by country List of cities in Turkey after Istanbul....
  • Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute Manuscripts (2001)
    Bogaziçi University
    Bogaziçi University

    Bogazi?i University is one of the most prominent educational institutions in Turkey. The university is located on the European side of the Bosphorus in Istanbul ....
    , Kandilli Observatory
    and Earthquake Research Institute, Istanbul
  • Works of Ibn Sina in the Süleymaniye Manuscript Library (2003)


Ukraine
Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east; Belarus to the north; Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary to the west; Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south....

  • Collection of Jewish Musical Folklore (1912-1947) (2005)


United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....

  • The Battle of the Somme (1916 film) (2005)
  • Hereford Mappa Mundi
    Hereford Mappa Mundi

    The Hereford Mappa mundi is a T and O map, dating to ca. 1300. It is currently on display in Hereford Cathedral in England....
     (2006)


United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...

  • The Wizard of Oz (1939 film)
    The Wizard of Oz (1939 film)

    The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 in film Cinema of the United States musical film-fantasy film mainly directed by Victor Fleming and based on the 1900 Children's literature novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L....
     (2007)


Uruguay
Uruguay

Uruguay is a country located in the southeastern part of South America. It is home to 3.46 million people, of whom 1.7 million live in the capital Montevideo and its metropolitan area....

  • Original records of Carlos Gardel
    Carlos Gardel

    Carlos Gardel is perhaps the most prominent figure in the history of tango. Although his birthplace is disputed between Argentina, Uruguay and France, he lived in Argentina from the age of two and acquired Argentine citizenship in 1923....
     - Horacio Loriente Collection (1913-1935) (2003)


Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan

Uzbekistan, officially the Republic of Uzbekistan , is a Landlocked_country#Doubly_landlocked_country country in Central Asia, formerly part of the Soviet Union....

  • Holy Koran Mushaf of Othman (1997)
    The Muslim Board of Uzbekistan, Tashkent
  • Collection of the Al-Biruni Institute of Oriental Studies (1997)
    Academy of Sciences, Tashkent