Unesco finds this heritage site linked with mining activities in the whole of western world. According to scholars, the town of Goslar, close to the Rammelsberg mines, played an important part in the Hanseatic League. Unesco says, ‘from the 10th to the 12th century it became one of the seats of the Holy Roman Empire. The remains of the Cistercian monastery of Walkenried and the mines of the Upper Harz bear testimony to the first attempts to systematically extract non-ferrous metal ores (including silver, lead, tin and copper) in Europe, and to develop water-management systems for this purpose’.

Rammelsberg—Ramma-grama, the Koliyan kingdom; seat of King Rama.

Goslar—Go-sringa/Mt Go-sringa/ importantly linked to Go-karna(in Greek region on the ‘north’.

Cistercian—Krousta/Kotakana

Walkenried—Walken-ried/Olikana/Olikana

Harz—Haz/Hauz/Harya/Ojha/Og/Arju/Arjuneya