{"id":25442,"date":"2024-07-28T04:21:39","date_gmt":"2024-07-27T22:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=25442"},"modified":"2025-04-07T17:59:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T12:29:08","slug":"tell-umm-amer-heritage-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/tell-umm-amer-heritage-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Tell Umm Amer Heritage site"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Tell Umm Amer Heritage site:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is situated on the coastal dunes of the Nuseirat Municipality, just 10 km <strong>south of Gaza city.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is an ancient Christian monastery founded in the fourth century by <strong>Hilarion the Great (291-371 CE).<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is also known as the \u2018<strong>Monastery of Saint Hilarion.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It was the first monastic community in the Holy Land, laying the groundwork for the spread of monastic practices in the region.<\/li>\n<li>The monastery occupied a strategic position at the crossroads of <strong>major trade and communication routes between Asia and Africa.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Key facts about UNESCO<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>UNESCO stands for United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.<\/li>\n<li>It is a specialized agency of the <strong>United Nations<\/strong> (UN).\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The constitution, which entered into <strong>force in 1946<\/strong>, called for the promotion of international collaboration in education, science, and culture.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The agency\u2019s permanent headquarters are in <strong>Paris, France.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Parent Organisation<\/strong> &#8211; United Nations Economic and Social Council<\/li>\n<li>The primary goals of UNESCO are to contribute to <strong>peace and securit<\/strong>y by promoting collaboration among nations through education, science, and culture, and to promote sustainable development and intercultural dialogue.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>UNESCO believes that these areas are crucial for building a more just, peaceful, and inclusive world.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is the United Nations?<\/h3>\n<p>The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization that was established with the purpose of promoting international cooperation and maintaining peace and security among its member states.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/explained-global\/gaza-tell-umm-amer-hilarion-world-heritage-site-list-matters-9479170\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Why inclusion of Gaza\u2019s Tell Umm Amer in the World Heritage Site List matters<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tell Umm Amer Heritage site  is situated on the coastal dunes of the Nuseirat Municipality, just 10 km south of Gaza city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":25443,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25442","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}