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  2. Lost city - Wikipedia

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    Recently abandoned cities or cities whose location was never in question might be referred to as ruins or ghost towns. Smaller settlements may be referred to as abandoned villages . The search for such lost cities by European explorers and adventurers in Africa, the Americas, and Southeast Asia from the 15th century onward eventually led to the ...

  3. Abandoned village - Wikipedia

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    Abandoned village in Russia The remains of a fieldstone church in Dangelsdorf Germany, from the 14th century Moggessa di Qua near Moggio Udinese/Italy Glanzenberg, a 13th-century town in Unterengstringen, Switzerland Villa Epecuén . An abandoned village is a village that has, for some reason, been deserted. In many countries, and throughout ...

  4. List of ghost towns by country - Wikipedia

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    Chamla is an abandoned village in the Smolyan municipality; Dolna Melna, near the Serbian border. [53] Dragostin is an abandoned village in Gotse Delchev that was erased from the registers in 2008. [54] Kanitz, a village in northwest Bulgaria with 4 residents as of 2019. [55] Kashle, near the Serbian border. [53]

  5. Kuldhara - Wikipedia

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    Kuldhara is an abandoned village in the Jaisalmer district of Rajasthan, India. Established around the 13th century, it was once a prosperous village inhabited by Paliwal Brahmins . It was abandoned by the early 19th century for unknown reasons, possibly because of dwindling water supply, an earthquake, or as a local legend claims, because of ...

  6. Novoshepelychi - Wikipedia

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    Novoshepelychi (Ukrainian: Новошепеличі; Russian: Новошепеличи) was a village near Pripyat, Ukraine, south-west of the Pripyat River basin. After the Chernobyl disaster in 1986 the village was contaminated by fallout and subsequently evacuated, and now lies within the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.

  7. Måstad, Værøy - Wikipedia

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    Måstad [2] is an abandoned village on the southern part of the island of Værøya at the southern end of the Lofoten archipelago and is located on a strandflat. It is located in Værøy Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. Måstad was in its prime around the year 1900 when over 120 people lived here.

  8. Houtouwan - Wikipedia

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    Houtouwan (Chinese: 后头湾; pinyin: Hòutóuwān) is an abandoned fishing village on the northern side of Shengshan Island (Chinese: 嵊山岛; pinyin: Shèngshān dǎo), one of the Shengsi Islands, a chain of 400 islands located 64 kilometres (40 mi) east of Shanghai, China. [1] [2] [3]

  9. Al Mafjar - Wikipedia

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    Al Mafjar (Arabic: المفجر) is an abandoned village in Qatar, [1] located in the municipality of Ash Shamal in the north. There are plans to redevelop ruins of the ancient village as a tourist attraction. [2] Umm Tais National Park and Ar Ru'ays are nearby. [3]