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		</div><p>Iraq is celebrating the Unesco World Heritage Committee’s decision to name the historic city of Babylon a world heritage site in a vote in Azerbaijan.</p>
<p>Friday’s vote comes after Iraq bid for years for Babylon to be added to the list of World Heritage Sites.</p>
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<p>New inscription on <a href="https://twitter.com/UNESCO?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@UNESCO</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WorldHeritage?src=hash&;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WorldHeritage</a> List: Babylon in <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Iraq?src=hash&;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Iraq</a> ð®ð¶. Bravo! ð</p>
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<p>&mdash; UNESCO (@UNESCO) <a href="https://twitter.com/UNESCO/status/1147140398785138689?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 5, 2019</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>The city on the Euphrates River is about 55 miles south of Baghdad.</p>
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<p>The 4,300-year-old Babylon, now mainly an archaeological ruin and two important museums, is where dynasties have risen and have fallen here since the earliest days of settled human civilisation.</p>
<figure id="attachment_135589" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-135589" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img class="size-full wp-image-135589" src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/C38702FB-1D59-4964-9FE5-D9517971A2B2.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="420" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-135589" class="wp-caption-text">File picture shows an Iraqi armed soldier walking in front of Ishtar Gate of ancient Babylon</figcaption></figure>
<p>Parliament speaker Mohammed al-Halbousi and Minister of Culture Abdul-Amir al-Hamadani congratulated the Iraqi people on the announcement.</p>
<p>The vote comes years after the Islamic State group damaged another Iraq World Heritage site in the country’s north, the ancient city of Hatra.</p>
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