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Bannack, Montana, USA, a well-preserved ghost town that is now a State Park.
Bannack, Montana, USA, a well-preserved ghost town that is now a State Park. Bannack is a Ghost town in Beaverhead County, Montana, United States.

A ghost town is a town that has been abandoned, usually because the economic activity that supported it has failed or because of natural or human-caused disasters such as war. War is an international relations Dispute, characterized by organized Violence between National Military units The word is sometimes used in a deprecative sense to include areas where the current population is significantly less than it once was. It may be a partial ghost town such as Tonopah, Nevada or a neighborhood where people no longer live (like Love Canal). Tonopah is an Unincorporated town and Census-designated place (CDP in Nye County, Nevada, United States. Love Canal is a Neighborhood in Niagara Falls, New York, United States of America (USA which became the subject of national and international A tourist ghost town has significant economic activity from tourism, such as Oatman, Arizona, or numerous sites in Egypt, but cannot sustain itself except by tourism. Oatman Arizona is a mining town in the Black Mountains of Mohave County, Arizona, United States.

A true ghost town is totally abandoned, such as Bodie, California, but tourists may visit it. Bodie California is a Ghost town east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County California, United States, about 75 Miles A ghost town may be a site where little or nothing remains above the soil surface, e. g. Babylon. Babylon was a City-state of ancient Mesopotamia, the remains of which can be found in present-day Al Hillah, Babil Province, Iraq Often a ghost town will still have significant art and architecture, e. g. Vijayanagara in India or Changan in China. Vijayanagara (ವಿಜಯನಗರ is in Bellary District, northern Karnataka. India, officially the Republic of India (भारत गणराज्य inc-Latn Bhārat Gaṇarājya; see also other Indian languages) is a country Chang'an ( is an ancient Capital of more than ten dynasties in Chinese history. Most large countries and regions contain locations that can be considered ghost towns.

Some ghost towns are tourist attractions, such as Kolmanskop and Elizabeth Bay, outside Lüderitz, Namibia. Tourism is Travel for Recreational or Leisure purposes The World Tourism Organization defines tourists as people who "travel Kolmannskuppe (also Kolmanskuppe with just one n Afrikaans: Kolmanskop is a Ghost town in southern Namibia, a few kilometres inland from the Elizabeth Bay (formerly Elisabethbucht) is a Ghost town in southern Namibia. Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa on the Atlantic coast This is especially true of those that preserve interesting architecture. Visiting, writing about, and photographing ghost towns is a minor industry. Other ghost towns may be overgrown, difficult to access, and dangerous or illegal to visit.

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As with many gold rush towns, the once thriving community of Cassilis is now abandoned
As with many gold rush towns, the once thriving community of Cassilis is now abandoned

Factors leading to abandonment of towns include depleted natural resources (as was the case of Smeerenburg and Grytviken), or natural resources such as water no longer being available; railways and motorways bypassing or no longer accessing the town (as was the case in many of the ghost towns along Ontario's historic Opeongo Line); economic activity shifting elsewhere; human intervention such as highway re-routing (as was the case with many towns located along U. Cassilis is a Ghost town in Gippsland, Victoria, Australia. It was named after a district and castle in Ayrshire, Scotland The settlement of Smeerenburg on Amsterdam Island in north-west Svalbard, originated with Dutch whalers in 1617 one of Europe's northernmost outposts Grytviken ( Swedish for 'Pot Cove' is the principal settlement in the United Kingdom territory of South Georgia in the South Atlantic "Railroad" and "Railway" both redirect here For other uses see Railroad (disambiguation. Motorway is a term for both a type of Road and a classification or designation The Opeongo Line or Road ( Ope au wingauk in Algonquian means “sandy at the narrows” was one of a series of settlement roads planned by the Canadian S. route 66, after motorists bypassed the towns on the faster moving I-44 and I-40); river re-routing (the Aral Sea being one example of this), and nuclear disasters such as Chernobyl. Interstate 44 (I-44 is an Interstate highway in the central United States. Interstate 40 (I-40 is a major west-east Interstate highway in the United States The Aral Sea ( Kazakh: Арал Теңізі Aral Tengizi, Orol dengizi Russian: Аральскοе мοре Tajik / Persian: Daryocha-i Chernobyl (as transliterated from the Чернобыль) or Chornobyl (as transliterated from Чорнобиль tʃɔrˈnɔbɪlʲ was a city in northern Significant fatality rates from epidemics have also produced ghost towns; for example, some places in eastern Arkansas were abandoned after near-total mortality (over 7,000 Arkansans died during the Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918 and 1919). In Epidemiology, an epidemic (from Greek epi- upon + demos people is a classification of a disease that appears as new cases in a Arkansas ( is a state located in the southern region of the United States. The 1918 flu pandemic (commonly referred to as the Spanish flu) was an Influenza Pandemic that spread to nearly every part of the world [1] The Middle East has many ghost towns, created when the shifting of politics or fall of empires caused capital cities to be socially or economically non-viable, e. g. , Ctesiphon. For the Spanish saint see Ctesiphon of Vergium. Ctesiphon (قطسيفون تیسفون was one of the great cities of the Persian Empire

Natural disasters can also create ghost towns. After being flooded more than 30 times since their town was founded in 1845, residents of Pattonsburg, Missouri had enough after two floods in 1993. Pattonsburg is a city in Daviess County, Missouri, United States. With government help, the whole town was rebuilt three miles (5 km) away. Residents moved to New Pattonsburg, leaving the old Pattonsburg behind as a ghost town.

Due to improvements in scientific testing and warning procedures, ghost towns may also occasionally come into being due to an anticipated natural disaster — for example, the Canadian town of Lemieux, Ontario, Canada was abandoned in 1991 after soil testing revealed that the community was built on an unstable clay bed. Lemieux is a Ghost town in the Canadian province of Ontario, which was located on the shore of the South Nation River in the Prescott and Two years after the last building in Lemieux was demolished, a landslide swept part of the former townsite into the South Nation River. The South Nation River is a River whose watershed covers 3900 km², a large part of eastern Ontario.

Land contamination can also create a ghost town. This is what happened to Times Beach, a suburb of St. Louis whose residents were exposed to a high level of dioxins,. Times Beach Missouri was a small town of 2240 residents in St Not to be confused with Dioxane or Digoxin. Dioxin is a heterocyclic, organic, antiaromatic compound Centralia, Pennsylvania was abandoned by many people due to a dangerous underground coal fire. Centralia is a borough in Columbia County Pennsylvania, United States. Since some residents chose to stay despite the dangers, it cannot be classified as a true ghost town.

Ghost towns may also be created when land is expropriated by a government and residents are required to relocate. Eminent domain ( United States) compulsory purchase ( United Kingdom, New Zealand, Ireland) resumption/compulsory acquisition An example was when NASA acquired land to build a rocket propulsion testing center. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA, ˈnæsə is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program A rocket or rocket vehicle is a Missile, Aircraft or other Vehicle which obtains Thrust by the reaction of the Construction of the John C. Stennis Space Center in Mississippi required acquisition of a large buffer zone (approximately 34 square miles) because of the loud noise and potential dangers associated with testing huge rockets. The John C Stennis Space Center (or SSC) located in Hancock County Mississippi at the Mississippi / Louisiana border is NASA 's largest Mississippi ( is a state located in the Deep South of the United States In geography a buffer zone is any zonal area that serves the purpose of keeping two or more other areas (often but not necessarily countries) distant from one another Communities were abandoned and roads became overgrown by forest.

Construction of dams has produced ghost towns left underwater. A dam is a barrier that divides waters. Dams generally serve the primary purpose of retaining water while other structures such as Floodgates, Levees Examples include the settlement of Loyston, Tennessee, inundated by the creation of Norris Lake. The town was reorganized and reconstructed on nearby higher ground. Other examples are The Lost Villages of Ontario, and the hamlets of Nether Hambleton and Middle Hambleton in Rutland, England, which were flooded to create Rutland Water, Europe's largest man-made reservoir, Mologa in Russia that was flooded by the creation of Rybinsk reservoir. The Lost Villages are ten communities in the Canadian province of Ontario, in the former townships of Cornwall and Osnabruck (now Ontario (ɒnˈtɛrioʊ is a province located in the central part of Canada, the largest by population and second largest after Quebec Hambleton is a village and Civil parish in Rutland, England. It is located about two miles east of Oakham. Hambleton is a village and Civil parish in Rutland, England. It is located about two miles east of Oakham. Rutland is a county of mainland England, bounded on the west and north by Leicestershire, northeast by Lincolnshire, and southeast by Rutland Water is a Reservoir in the county of Rutland, England, just east of the county town Oakham. Mologa (Моло́га was a town in Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia, formerly situated at the confluence of Mologa and Volga Rivers but Russia (Россия Rossiya) or the Russian Federation ( Rossiyskaya Federatsiya) is a transcontinental Country extending Many ancient villages had to be abandoned during construction of the Three Gorges Dam in China, leading to displacement of many rural people. Zh-yue三峽大壩 The Three Gorges Dam ( is a hydroelectric River Dam that spans the Yangtze River in Sandouping,

Revived ghost towns

A few ghost towns manage a second life, often due to heritage tourism propagating an economy able to support residents. Walhalla, Australia, for example, was a town deserted after its gold mine ceased operation. Walhalla is a small town in Victoria, Australia, founded as a gold-mining community in early 1863 and at its peak home to around 3000 residents For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Australia topics. Owing to its accessibility and proximity to other attractive locations, Walhalla has had a recent surge in economy and population.

Alexandria, the second largest city of Egypt, was a flourishing city in the Ancient era, but declined during the Middle Ages. Alexandria ( Egyptian Arabic: اسكندريه Eskendereyya; Standard Arabic: ar الإسكندرية Al-Iskandariyya; Ἀλεξάνδρεια With only 150 residents in the early 19th century, it qualified as a ghost town. During the Modern period it has grown to a city of 3. 5 to 5 million inhabitants. In Algeria, many cities became hamlets after the end of Late Antiquity. Algeria ( ar [[Arabic]] الجزائر, Al Jaza'ir ælʤæˈzæːʔir Amazigh: ⴷⵥⴰⵢⴻⵔ Dzayer) officially the People's Late Antiquity (c 300-600 is a Periodization used by historians to describe the transitional centuries from Classical Antiquity to the Middle Ages, in They were revived with shifts in population during and after French colonization of Algeria. French rule of Algeria lasted from 1830 to 1962 under a variety of governmental systems Oran, today the nation's second largest city with 1 million people, before colonization was a village of a few thousand people. Oran ( Arabic:ar وهران pronounced Wahran; also transliterated as Ouahran, Spanish: Orán.

Ghost towns around the world

Americas

Argentina

Most 19th and 20th century European immigrants to Argentina settled in the cities, which offered jobs, education, and other opportunities that enabled newcomers to enter the middle class. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Argentina topics. Many also settled in the growing small towns along the expanding railway system. Since the 1930s, many rural workers have moved to the big cities.

The 1990s saw many rural towns become ghost towns when train services ceased and local products previously manufactured on a small scale were replaced by massive amounts of cheap imported goods. Some ghost towns near cities offer tourist attractions, especially during weekends.

Brazil

The small village of Caraíbas, in the municipality of Itacarambi, state of Minas Gerais, suffered an earthquake in the early morning of December 9, 2007. A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet, but smaller than a Town or City. A municipality is an administrative entity composed of a clearly defined territory and its population and commonly denotes a City, Town, or Village, or Minas Gerais is one of the 26 states of Brazil, the second most populous and fourth largest by area in the federation An earthquake is the result of a sudden release of energy in the Earth 's crust that creates Seismic waves Earthquakes are recorded with a Seismometer Measuring 4. 9 degrees on the Richter scale, the earthquake was rare in Brazil. The Richter magnitude scale, or more correctly local magnitude M L scale assigns a single number to quantify the amount of seismic energy released Located over a geological fault, the village (76 families) was evacuated and has been abandoned since then. In Geology a fault, or fault line, is a planar rock fracture which shows evidence of relative movement

Canada

See also: List of ghost towns in Canada, List of ghost towns in British Columbia, Ghost towns in Alberta, and Ghost towns in Saskatchewan

Ghost towns are seen in Northern Ontario, Central Ontario, British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Newfoundland and Labrador (see outport) and in Quebec. A Ghost town is a Town that once had a considerable population that has since dwindled in numbers causing some or all its business to close either due to the rerouting of a This is a list of ghost towns in the Canadian province of British Columbia, including those still partly-inhabited or even overtaken by modern towns as well as those completely The province of Alberta has several ghost towns that have been completely or partially abandoned The following is a list of communities that no longer exist in the Province of Saskatchewan, Canada. Territorial evolution Those areas which formed part of New France in the pays d'en haut, essentially the watersheds of the Ottawa River, Central Ontario is the portion of the Canadian province of Ontario which lies between Georgian Bay and the eastern end of Lake Ontario. British Columbia (ˌbrɪtɨʃ kəˈlʌmbiə ( BC) ( (la Colombie-Britannique C Saskatchewan (səˈskætʃəwən) is a prairie province in Canada, which has an area of 588276 Newfoundland and Labrador (ˈnuːfɨn(dlənd ən(d ˈlæbrəˌdɔr (Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador is a province of Canada, the tenth and latest to join the Confederation For wider usage of the term outport see Outport. An outport is the term given for a small isolated coastal community in the Quebec (kwɨˈbɛk Some of these were logging towns or dual mining and logging sites, often developed at the behest of the company. A company town is a Town or City in which all Real estate, Buildings (both residential and commercial) Utilities In British Columbia, they were predominantly mining towns and prospecting camps as well as canneries and, in one or two cases, large smelter and pulp mill towns.

British Columbia has more ghost towns than any other jurisdiction on the North American continent, with one estimate at the number of abandoned and semi-abandoned towns and localities upwards of 1500. [2] Some ghost towns have revived their economies and populations due to historical and eco-tourism, such as Barkerville, once the largest town north of Kamloops, which is now a year-round Provincial Museum. Barkerville was the main town of the Cariboo Gold Rush in British Columbia, Canada and is preserved as an historic town Kamloops is a city in south central British Columbia, Canada, at the confluence of the two branches of the Thompson

Chile

Most of the ghost towns in Chile had once been mining camps or lumber mills, such as the many saltpeter mining camps that prospered from the end of the Saltpeter War until the invention of synthetic saltpeter during the First World War. Potassium nitrate is a Chemical compound with the Chemical formula K[[Nitrogen N]] O 3 The War of the Pacific, sometimes called the Saltpeter War in reference to its original cause was fought between Chile and the joint forces of Bolivia World War I (abbreviated WWI; also known as the First World War, the Great War, and the War to End All The ghost towns of Humberstone and Santa Laura Saltpeter Works in the middle of the Atacama Desert were declared UNESCO World Heritage Sites in 2005. Humberstone and Santa Laura Saltpeter Works are two former saltpeter refineries located in northern Chile. Atacama redirects here for the political-administrative region of Chile, see Atacama Region. A UNESCO World Heritage Site is a site (such as a Forest, Mountain, Lake, Desert, Monument, Building, complex The copper mining camp of Sewell, high up in the Andes of Central Chile, was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2006. Sewell is an uninhabited Chilean mining town located in the commune of Machalí in Cachapoal Province, O'Higgins Region, on the slopes of the The Andes form the world's longest exposed Mountain range. They lie as a continuous chain of highland along the western coast of South America. Zona central ( Central Zone, Central Chile) is one of the five Natural regions on which CORFO divided continental Chile in Despite protection laws, this ghost town suffers "tourist looting. "

Port Famine (Spanish: Puerto Hambre) is arguably Chile's oldest ghost town. Puerto Hambre, also known as Puerto del Hambre and at one time as Port Famine, is a historic settlement site at Buena Bay on the west side of the Strait It was founded in the Strait of Magellan in 1584 by Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa. The Straits of Magellan (rarely referred to as the Magellanic Straits) comprise a navigable sea route immediately south of mainland Chile and north of Isla Grande Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa (1532 - 1592 was a Spanish explorer author historian astronomer scientist and humanist Starvation and the cold climate killed all of the inhabitants. The English navigator, Sir Thomas Cavendish landed at the site in 1587. England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland A navigator is the person onboard a ship or aircraft responsible for its Navigation. Sir Thomas Cavendish (or Candish) (1560-1592 was known as "the Navigator" because he was the first who deliberately set out to circumnavigate He found only ruins of the settlement, and renamed the place Port Famine.

Other lesser known ghost towns are located in the southern part of the Chilean Coast Range. The Chilean Coast Range (Cordillera de la Costa is a mountain range that runs southward parallel with the Andean Mountains, from the Morro de Arica to the Taitao They were once lumbermills where Fitzroya were cut down to make roof shingles, a typical element of Chilota architecture. Fitzroya is a Genus in the cypress family Cupressaceae with a single Species, Fitzroya cupressoides native to the Roof shingles are a roof covering consisting of individual overlapping elements

Guyana

Jonestown in Guyana became a ghost town because of the mass suicide of the Peoples Temple community that lived there. Guyana (ɡaɪˈænə or /ɡiːˈɑːnə/ officially the Co-operative Republic of Guyana and previously known as British Guiana, is the only Nation state Peoples Temple was an organization founded in 1955 by Jim Jones that by the mid-1970s possessed over a dozen locations in California including its headquarters in San

Mexico

Real de Catorce was once a flourishing silver mining town in northern Mexico. Ojuela was a small Mining settlement located North[[west]] of the city of Torreón, Coahuila, in northern Mexico. The village of Real de Catorce (reˈal de kaˈtoɾse often shortened to Real is located 160 miles northwest of San Luis Potosi, Mexico. The village of Real de Catorce (reˈal de kaˈtoɾse often shortened to Real is located 160 miles northwest of San Luis Potosi, Mexico. Silver (ˈsɪlvɚ is a Chemical element with the symbol " Ag " (argentum from the Ancient Greek: ἀργήντος - argēntos gen Its dramatic landscapes and buildings have been used by Hollywood for movies such as The Mexican (2001) with Brad Pitt and Julia Roberts. The Mexican is a 2001 movie by director Gore Verbinski starring Brad Pitt and Julia Roberts, with a plot that is an unusual mixture between William Bradley "Brad" Pitt Pitt received a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award nomination for his role in the 1995 film Twelve Monkeys Julia Fiona Roberts (born October 28 1967 is an American - Academy Award winning Film actress and former Fashion model. Recent efforts to adapt the town to tourism have created a mixture of ghost town and heritage tourist site adapted to visitors in search of interesting history in the country.

USA

Main article: List of ghost towns in the United States
A street corner in the ghost town of Bodie, California.
A street corner in the ghost town of Bodie, California. This is an incomplete list of Ghost towns in the United States of America Alabama Barnsville Battelle Bodie California is a Ghost town east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County California, United States, about 75 Miles

There are many ghost towns, or semi-ghost towns (also referred to as unincorporated communities) in the American Great Plains, whose rural areas have lost a third of their population since 1920. In Law, an unincorporated area is a region of land that is not a part of any Municipality. The Great Plains are the broad expanse of Prairie and Steppe which lie east of the Rocky Mountains in the United States and Canada There are more than 6,000 abandoned sites of settlement in the state of Kansas alone, according to Kansas historian Daniel Fitzgerald. Kansas ( is a Midwestern state in the central region of the United States of America, an area often referred to as the American " Daniel C Fitzgerald is an American regional history author 1959--present Thousands of communities in the northern plains states like North Dakota, South Dakota, and Montana became railroad ghost towns when a rail-line failed to materialize. North Dakota ( is a state located in the Midwestern and Western regions of the United States of America. South Dakota ( is a state located in the Midwestern region of the United States of America. Montana ( is a state in the Western United States. One-third of the state in the western part contains numerous mountain ranges (approximately 77 named of the northern Hundreds more were abandoned when the US Highway System replaced the railroads as America's favorite mode of travel. Ghost towns are common in mining or old mill town areas: Washington, Colorado, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Montana, Minnesota, and California in the western United States and West Virginia in the eastern USA. Mining is the extraction of valuable Minerals or other geological materials from the earth usually (but not always from an Ore body A Mill town, also known as factory town or mill village, is typically a settlement that developed around one or more mills or factories (usually Cotton mills Washington ( is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. The State of Colorado ( or chiefly by nonresidents) is a state located in the Rocky Mountain region of the United States of America. The State of Arizona ( is a state located in the southwestern region of the United States. Nevada ( is a state located in the western region of the United States of America. New Mexico ( is a state located in the southwestern region of the United States of America. Montana ( is a state in the Western United States. One-third of the state in the western part contains numerous mountain ranges (approximately 77 named of the northern Minnesota ( Native Americans demonstrated the name to early settlers California ( is a US state on the West Coast of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the West Virginia ( is a state in the Appalachian Upland South, and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States, bordered by They can be observed as far south as Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Georgia and Florida. Texas ( is a state geographically located in the South Central United States and is also known as the Lone Star State. The State of Louisiana ( or, État de Louisiane, pronounced) is a state located in the southern region of the United States of America Arkansas ( is a state located in the southern region of the United States. The State of Georgia ( is a state in the United States and was one of the original Thirteen Colonies that revolted against British rule Florida ( is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States, bordering Alabama to the northwest and Georgia to the When the resources that had created an employment boom in these towns played out, eventually the businesses ceased to exist, and the people moved on to more productive areas. Sometimes a ghost town consists of many old abandoned buildings (like in Bodie, California), other times there are simply structures or foundations of former buildings (i. Bodie California is a Ghost town east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County California, United States, about 75 Miles e. , Graysonia, Arkansas). Graysonia was once a Boomtown in Clark County, Arkansas, United States, but has since become a Ghost town. Even some of the earliest settlements in the US are or have been ghost towns, such as Jamestown, Virginia and the Zwaanendael Colony in Delaware, and the famous Lost Colony in North Carolina. Jamestown, located on Jamestown Island in the Virginia Colony, was founded on May 14 1607 Zwaanendael or Swaanendael was a Dutch colonial settlement in Delaware. North Carolina ( is a state located on the Atlantic Seaboard in the southeastern United States

Old mining camps that have lost most of their population at some stage of their history, such as St. Elmo, Colorado; Central City, Colorado; Aspen, Colorado; Virginia City, Montana; Marysville, Montana; Tombstone, Arizona; Deadwood, South Dakota; Park City, Utah; Crested Butte, Colorado; or Cripple Creek, Colorado are sometimes included in the category, although they are active towns and cities today. St Elmo is a Ghost town located in Chaffee County, Colorado, United States. Historic Central City is a Home Rule Municipality that is located in Gilpin County and Clear Creek County, Colorado, United States The City of Aspen is a Home Rule Municipality that is the County seat and the most populous city of Pitkin County, Colorado, United Virginia City is a town in and the County seat of Madison County, Montana, United States. Marysville is a small Ghost town in Lewis and Clark County, Montana, United States. Tombstone is a city in Cochise County, Arizona, United States, founded in 1879 by Ed Schieffelin in what was then the Arizona Territory Deadwood, named for the dead trees found in its Gulch, is a city in and the County seat of Lawrence County, South Dakota, Park City is a town in Summit and Wasatch counties in the US state of Utah. Crested Butte is a Home Rule Municipality in Gunnison County, Colorado, United States. Cripple Creek is a statutory city that is the County seat of Teller County, Colorado, United States.

A recent attempt to declare an "Official Ghost Town" in California collapsed when the adherents of the town of Calico, in Southern California, and those of Bodie, in Northern California, could not come to an agreement as to which of their favorites was more deserving. Calico Ghost Town 2004jpg|thumb|Calico in the evening]] Calico is a Ghost town located in the Mojave Desert region of Southern California. Southern California, or So Cal, is defined as the southern portion of the U Bodie California is a Ghost town east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County California, United States, about 75 Miles Northern California is the northern portion of the US state of California.

The derelict British base in Whalers Bay, Deception Island destroyed by volcano eruption
The derelict British base in Whalers Bay, Deception Island destroyed by volcano eruption

See Bill O'Neal, Ghost Towns of the American West (1995). John William O'Neal, known as Bill O'Neal (born April 8, 1942) is an American Historian who has penned more than thirty books on

Antarctica

The oldest ghost town in Antarctica is located in Deception Island, where in 1906 a Norwegian-Chilean whaling company started using Whalers Bay as a base for a factory ship, the Gobernador Bories. Deception Island is an Island in the South Shetland Islands off the Antarctic Peninsula which has one of the safest harbours in Antarctica Other whaling operations followed suit, and by 1914 there were 13 factory ships based there.

Antarctica also has many more-recently abandoned scientific and military bases, especially in the Antarctic Peninsula. The Antarctic Peninsula is the northernmost part of the mainland of Antarctica, and almost the only part of that continent that extends outside the Antarctic Circle

The ghost town of Grytviken with the Manager Villa turned into South Georgia Museum
The ghost town of Grytviken with the Manager Villa turned into South Georgia Museum

South Georgia

The Antarctic island of South Georgia used to have several thriving whaling settlements during the first half of the 20th century, with a combined population exceeding 2,000 in some years. South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands ( SGSSI) is a British overseas territory in the southern Atlantic Ocean. These included Grytviken (operating 1904-64), Leith Harbour (1909-65), Ocean Harbour (1909-20), Husvik (1910-60), Stromness (1912-61) and Prince Olav Harbour (1917-34). Grytviken ( Swedish for 'Pot Cove' is the principal settlement in the United Kingdom territory of South Georgia in the South Atlantic Year 1964 ( MCMLXIV) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the 1964 Gregorian calendar. You may be looking for Leith, the port of Edinburgh Scotland Leith Harbour ( was a Whaling station up on the northeast coast Year 1965 ( MCMLXV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the 1965 Gregorian calendar. Ocean Harbour ( is a deeply indented Bay on the north coast of South Georgia which is entered 1 Year 1920 ( MCMXX) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display 1920 of the Gregorian calendar Husvik is a former whaling station on the north-central coast of South Georgia Island. Year 1960 ( MCMLX) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Stromness ( is a former Whaling station on the northern coast of South Georgia Island in the South Atlantic Year 1961 ( MCMLXI) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Prince Olav Harbour ( is a derelict norwegian whaling station operational from 1911 until 1931 and a small harbour in the southwest portion of Cook Bay, entered between Year 1934 ( MCMXXXIV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display full 1934 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The abandoned settlements have become increasingly dilapidated, and remain uninhabited nowadays except for the Museum curator's family at Grytviken. The jetty, the church, and dwelling and industrial buildings at Grytviken have recently been renovated by the Government of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, becoming a popular tourist destination. South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands ( SGSSI) is a British overseas territory in the southern Atlantic Ocean. Some historical buildings in the other settlements are being restored too.

Australia

Similar to the United States, Canada and other former frontier countries, most ghost towns in Australia were usually formed after the end of mining operations or the removal of railway services. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Australia topics. They are spread throughout the country and are located in every state and territory. Some ghost towns in Australia include Cassilis in Victoria, Farina in the far north of South Australia, Newnes in New South Wales, and Goldsworthy, Cossack, Wittenoom in Western Australia. Cassilis is a Ghost town in Gippsland, Victoria, Australia. It was named after a district and castle in Ayrshire, Scotland Farina cemeteryjpg|thumb|Headstones facing Mecca in Farina's cemetery]] Farina ( a town in the far north of South Australia. South Australia is a state of Australia in the southern central part of the country Newnes ( located in the Wolgan Valley, New South Wales, Australia and part of the Wollemi National Park is an abandoned oil shale mining Goldsworthy was a mining town in Western Australia east of Port Hedland and located in the Shire of East Pilbara. Cossack is a historic Ghost town located 1480 km north of Perth and 15 km from Roebourne in the Pilbara region of Western Australia Wittenoom is a town in the Pilbara region of Western Australia about 1106 kilometres (687 mi north-northeast of Perth. Western Australia is a state occupying the entire western third of the Australian continent. Ravenswood in north-eastern Queensland was a ghost town for many years, due to the declining gold rushes, but new gold discoveries in the area and improved mineral processing technologies, has boosted the economy of the area and revived the town. Queensland is a state of Australia, occupying the north-eastern corner of the mainland continent

Europe

In Europe, many villages were abandoned over the ages, for many different reasons. A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet, but smaller than a Town or City.

Sometimes, wars and genocide end a town's life, and it is never resettled. This happened to the Swedish town Sjöstad, in Närke, in 1260, when the town's 700 merchants had crossed the ice of Lake Vättern and been cut down by the Danes. is a traditional Swedish province or landskap in middle Sweden. Vättern is the second largest Lake (by surface area in Sweden, after Lake Vänern. The Danes then proceeded to the town, ravaging and burning it. The town was never resettled. A farm named Skyrstad, ruins and a silver treasure which yielded 4000 coins are all that testify to its existence (see abandoned village). An abandoned village is a Village which has for some reason been deserted It also happened to the French village Oradour-sur-Glane in 1944. Oradour-sur-Glane (Orador de Glana is a town and commune in the Haute-Vienne département of central-western France. Natural disasters also play a role. For example, the erupting volcano of Vesuvius famously terminated Pompeii and Herculaneum in Italy in AD 79. Mount Vesuvius (in Italian Monte Vesuvio and in Latin Mons Vesuvius) is an active Stratovolcano east of Naples Pompeii is a ruined and partially buried Roman town-city near modern Naples and Caserta in the Italian region of Campania, in Herculaneum (in modern Italian Ercolano) is an ancient Roman town located in the territory of the current commune of Ercolano.

In the United Kingdom, the once thriving farming village of Knaptoft in Leicestershire was depopulated due to the enclosure of the surrounding land for sheep pasture. Knaptoft is a Civil parish in the Harborough district of Leicestershire, England, with a population of around 50 Leicestershire (ˈlɛstəʃə(r or ˈlɛstəʃɪə(r abbreviation Leics The ruins of the former church still exist as a graveyard, with graves even occupying ground inside the ruins of the church. The villages of Imber on Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire and Tyneham near Dorset's historic Jurassic Coast, as well as several villages within the Stanford Battle Area in Norfolk, were evacuated by the British Army, and the abandoned buildings are now used for training exercises. Imber is a village in Wiltshire, situated in the middle of England 's Salisbury Plain. Salisbury Plain is a Chalk Plateau in central southern England covering. Etymology The county formerly 'Wiltonshire' or 'Wiltunscir' (9th century is named after the former county town of Wilton (itself named after the River Wylye Tyneham is a ghost village in south Dorset, England, near Lulworth on the Isle of Purbeck. Dorset ( (or archaically, Dorsetshire) is a county in South West England on the English Channel coast The Jurassic Coast is a World Heritage Site on the English Channel coast of southern England. The Stanford Battle Area, also known as the Stanford Training Area ( STANTA) is a British Army Infantry training area situated in the English Norfolk (ˈnɔrfək is a low-lying county in East Anglia, England, United Kingdom. The British Army is the land armed forces branch of the British Armed Forces. The creation of reservoirs has led to the drowning of villages. A reservoir is most broadly a place or hollow vessel where Fluid is kept in Reserve, for later use These include Mardale Green in the English Lake District and two villages - Ashopton and Derwent - drowned by the Ladybower Reservoir in Derbyshire. Mardale is a Glacial valley in the Lake District, in northern England. The Lake District, also known as The Lakes or Lakeland, is a rural area in North West England. Ashopton was the second village in Derbyshire, England, that was lost along with neighbouring Derwent when the Ladybower Reservoir was constructed Derwent is a village 'drowned' under the Ladybower Reservoir in Derbyshire, England. Ladybower Reservoir is a large Y-shaped reservoir, the lowest of three in the Upper Derwent Valley in Derbyshire, England. History The area that is now Derbyshire was first visited probably briefly by humans 200000 years ago during the Aveley Interglacial as evidenced by a Middle

Industrialisation is another factor. For example the village of Etzweiler in northwestern Germany was abandoned in the 1990s to make way for a coal (lignite) mine [2] [3]. Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. Lignite, often referred to as brown coal, or Rosebud coal by Northern Pacific Railroad, is a soft brown fuel with characteristics that put it somewhere While Etzweiler disappeared in 2006, neighbouring Pesch and Holz have become near-deserted ghost towns by now (January 2008) and all that is left of Otzenrath are the remains of the village's church, where archeologists excavate remains of sacred buildings from medieval and potentially Roman times. [4]. Furthermore, parts of the motorway A44 have been removed and as the lignitemine continues to move west, parts of the A61 will follow before 2020 (with the A44 being rebuilt behind the mine).

Also in Belgium, several villages had to disappear to facilitate the expansion of the port of Antwerp, such as the former villages of Oosterweel, Oordam, Wilmarsdonk, Lillo and Oorderen. ||-||-||-||} Antwerp ( Dutch:, French: Anvers) is a City and Municipality in Belgium and the capital of the Wilmarsdonk was a village in Belgium, north of Antwerp, which has disappeared under the Port of Antwerp expansion Soon, the village of Doel will follow suit.

Pyramiden (Danish, Swedish and Norwegian, meaning "the pyramid", Russian: Пирамида) was a Russian settlement and coal mining community on the archipelago of Svalbard, Norway. Pyramiden ( Swedish and Norwegian, meaning "the pyramid" Пирамида piramida was a Russian settlement and Coal mining community Russia (Россия Rossiya) or the Russian Federation ( Rossiyskaya Federatsiya) is a transcontinental Country extending Svalbard is an Archipelago in the Arctic Ocean north of mainland Europe, about midway between Norway and the North Pole. Norway ( Norwegian: Norge ( Bokmål) or Noreg ( Nynorsk) officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Constitutional It was founded by Sweden in 1910, and sold to the Soviet Union in 1927. "Sverige" redirects here For other uses see Sweden (disambiguation and Sverige (disambiguation. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR was a constitutionally Socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991 The settlement, with a one time population of 1,000 inhabitants, was abandoned in the late-1990s by its owner, the state-owned Soviet company Trust Artikugol, and is now a ghost town. There are no restrictions on visiting Pyramiden. However, visitors may not enter any buildings without permission, even if the doors are open. Most buildings are now locked. Pyramiden is accessible by boat or snowmobile. Guided tours are available (in Russian, Norwegian, and English).

The city of Prypiat and dozens of smaller settlements in northern Ukraine and southern Belarus were abandoned after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster and turned into a closed alienation zone. For other uses see Pripyat Prypiat (При́п'ять Pryp”jat’; При́пять Pripjat’; or Pripyat) Ukraine (Україна Ukrayina, /ukrɑˈjinɑ/ is a country in Eastern Europe. Belarus ( Belarusian Беларусь / Biełaruś is a Landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered by Russia to the north and east The Chernobyl disaster was a nuclear reactor accident in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Soviet Union. The Zone of Alienation, which is variously referred to as The Chernobyl Zone, The 30 Kilometer Zone, The Zone of Exclusion, The Fourth Zone, The area has been largely untouched since then, and as such it functions as a large time capsule of the late Soviet era. A time capsule is a historic cache of goods and/or information usually intended as a method of Communication with people in the future The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR was a constitutionally Socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991 There is an online photojournal of this area.

Several communities became ghost towns in Ireland in the latter half of the nineteenth century, particularly in the west of the country, due to a combination of the potato famine and economic decline brought on by the famine. Ireland (pronounced /ˈaɾlənd/ Éire) is the third largest island in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world These now consist primarily of knee high ruins of cottages. Notable ghost towns are on Achill Island and in the Burren area of county Clare. Achill Island (ˈækəl Acaill Oileán Acla in County Mayo is the largest island of Ireland, and is situated off the west coast A more recent ghost town was created in the 1950s on Great Blasket island, where island life became unfeasible and the island was depopulated. Great Blasket ( An Blascaod Mór in Irish) is the principal island of the Blaskets, County Kerry The Island is only accessible to tourists in the summer months.

The Île aux Marins of the Saint-Pierre and Miquelon group of islands has been uninhabited since 1965. L'Île-aux-Marins (literally "The Island of the Sailors" before 1931 called Île-aux-Chiens, literally "Island of the Dogs" is a small island in the The Territorial Collectivity of Saint Pierre and Miquelon (Collectivité territoriale de Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon is a group of small islands in the North Atlantic Ocean, the

In Finland, which is one of the most sparsely populated countries in the world, most people live in the biggest towns, and some villages near the Russian border and in Lapland are nearly abandoned. Finland, officially the Republic of Finland ( is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of northern Europe. The Province of Lapland ( Lappi in Finnish and Sami Lappland in Swedish is one of the Provinces of Finland.

While Athens, Greece, experienced severe decline after the end of the Byzantine Empire, it may never have been a ghost town, although it certainly came close, dwindling to some 3,000 or 4,000 people by the 19th century. Athens (ˈæθənz Αθήνα Athina,) the Capital and largest city of Greece, dominates the Attica periphery as one of the world's It has since gone back to being a major city. Rome experienced similar declines, but it too hasn't been completely abandoned (one of its lowest estimated populations was 17,000 in 1347, down from more than a million in Imperial times). Rome ( Roma ˈroma Roma is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city with more than 2

Hungary

Hundreds of villages were abandoned during the Ottoman wars in the Kingdom of Hungary in the 16-17th century. The Ottoman Empire (1299–1923 ( Old Ottoman Turkish: دولتْ علیّه عثمانیّه Devlet-i Âliye-yi Osmâniyye, Late Ottoman and Modern Turkish The Kingdom of Hungary (short form Hungary) was a considerable state in Central Europe that existed from 1001 to 1918 then from 1919 to 1946 Many of them were never repopulated but generally they are not classified as ghost towns because few visible traces remained of them. Real ghost towns are rare in present-day Hungary, except the abandoned villages of Derenk (left in 1943) and Nagygéc (left in 1970). Hungary (Magyarország 'mɔɟɔrorsaːg) officially in English the Republic of Hungary ( Magyar Köztársaság, literally Magyar (Hungarian Republic Due to the decrease of rural population beginning in the 1980s dozens of villages are now threatened with abandonment. The first village officially declared as "died out" was Gyűrűfű in the end of the 1970s but later it was repopulated as an eco-village. Sometimes depopulated villages were successfully saved as small rural resorts like Kán, Tornakápolna, Szanticska, Gorica and Révfalu. Szanticska is a former village in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén county Hungary.

Bulgaria

An increasing number of settlements in Bulgaria are becoming ghost towns as a result of the ongoing demographic decline of that country since the late 20th century. The state of Bulgaria (България transliterated bg-Latn ''Balgaria'' The country preserves the traditions (in ethnic name language and alphabet of the First Bulgarian According to the 2001 census there were 138 uninhabited villages, estimated to have become over 150 by 2006. A census is the procedure of acquiring information about every member of a given population There are such ghost villages in 16 out of the 28 provinces of the country, more numerous in Gabrovo Province (57 in 2001), Veliko Tarnovo Province (34), Kardzhali, Blagoevgrad, Burgas, and Lovech Provinces. Gabrovo is a small Province lying at the geographical centre of Bulgaria. Veliko Tarnovo is a Province in the middle of the northern part of Bulgaria. Kardzhali (Кърджалийска област Kırcaali İli is a Province of southern Bulgaria, neighbouring Greece with the Greek prefectures Blagoevgrad Province (област Благоевград oblast Blagoevgrad or Благоевградска област Blagoevgradska oblast) also known Burgas Province or oblast (Област Бургас is located in southeastern Bulgaria, on the southern Black Sea coast Lovech is one of the 28 Provinces in Bulgaria. Municipalities Its main city is Lovech, and other municipalities are Some Bulgarian villages may avoid that fate thanks to immigration of settlers from abroad, mainly from the United Kingdom but also other EU countries, former Soviet republics, even Israel and Japan. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located The European Union ( EU) is a political and economic union of twenty-seven member states, located primarily in The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR was a constitutionally Socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991 For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Israel topics. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Japan topics. [3][4]

Poland

One of the most famous Polish ghost towns is Kłomino (near to Borne Sulinowo; Russian name - Gródek/Гродек) in the northwest part of the country. Poland (Polska officially the Republic of Poland Borne Sulinowo ( German Gross-Born) is a town in Poland 's Western Pomeranian Voivodship, in the Powiat of Szczecinek. It was built for Soviet soldiers and their families. The population was about 5,000. It was completely abandoned in 1992 after the collapse of the USSR. Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) Only a few families live there now, but there are plans to repopulate the city. You can see a gallery of this here

Ukraine

See also: Prypiat, Ukraine

Prypiat is one of the biggest ghost towns today because at its peak, it had a population of over 50,000 residents; all have abandoned the town after the Chernobyl disaster. For other uses see Pripyat Prypiat (При́п'ять Pryp”jat’; При́пять Pripjat’; or Pripyat) For other uses see Pripyat Prypiat (При́п'ять Pryp”jat’; При́пять Pripjat’; or Pripyat) The Chernobyl disaster was a nuclear reactor accident in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Soviet Union. Prypiat was built to be the home for the workers of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. The VI Lenin Memorial Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station (Чернобыльская АЭС им Unlike its neighboring town Chernobyl, Prypiat remains a ghost town and is completely empty. Chernobyl (as transliterated from the Чернобыль) or Chornobyl (as transliterated from Чорнобиль tʃɔrˈnɔbɪlʲ was a city in northern

Post-Soviet states

Apart from Prypiat, the majority of abadoned towns and settlements are located in the Russian Far North (Komi, Taymyr, Chukotka). The post-Soviet states, also commonly known as former Soviet republics, are the 15 independent nations that split off from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics For other uses see Pripyat Prypiat (При́п'ять Pryp”jat’; При́пять Pripjat’; or Pripyat) Chukotka may refer to Chukchi Peninsula, the northeastern extremity of Asia in the northern part of the Russian Far East Chukotka Autonomous Okrug They were deserted due to deindustrialisation and the economic crisis of the early 1990s. Other notable ghost towns are attributed to the post-Soviet conflicts. An example is Agdam, Azerbaijan. Ağdam (also Agdam and Aghdam) is a city in and the capital of the Agdam Rayon in southwestern Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan ( English; Azərbaycan officially the Republic of Azerbaijan (Azərbaycan Respublikası is the largest and most populous country in the South Semi-deserted towns are situated in Abkhazia, notably Tquarchal, Ochamchira, Gagra, the biggest being Sukhumi. Abkhazia (Аҧсны Apsny აფხაზეთი Apkhazeti or Abkhazeti Абха́зия Abhazia) is a De facto Tkvarcheli (Тҟəарчал Tqwarchal, ტყვარჩელი is a town in Abkhazia. Ochamchira, commonly referred to as Ochamchire; ( Abkhaz: Очамчыра Ochamchyra; ოჩამჩირე Russian: Очамчира Gagra ( Abkhaz and Russian: Гагра გაგრა is a town in Abkhazia, the breakaway republic Sukhumi, also spelled as Sukhum ( Abkhaz: Аҟəа Aqwa; სოხუმი Sokhumi, Сухуми/Сухум is the capital

In European Russia many villages are depopulated since the 1940s. Russia (Россия Rossiya) or the Russian Federation ( Rossiyskaya Federatsiya) is a transcontinental Country extending The 1940s decade ran from 1940 to 1949 Events and trends The 1940s was a period between the radical 1930s and the conservative 1950s which also leads the period to be

Middle East

Following the 1974 events in Cyprus, the southern part of Famagusta, also known as Varosha/Maraş, was abandoned by its original inhabitants without being settled. Cyprus (Κύπρος transliterated: Kýpros,; Kıbrıs officially the Republic of Cyprus (Κυπριακή Δημοκρατία Kypriakī́ Dīmokratía "Magusa" redirects here For the Moth Genus, see Magusa (moth. Varosha (Βαρώσια Maraş is a settlement in the unrecognised Republic of Northern Cyprus. While the problem is not resolved, Varosha/Maraş is a ghost town and a tourist attraction. The Cyprus dispute is a territorial conflict between Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots and also Republic of Cyprus and Turkey over Cyprus, an Kayaköy in southwestern Turkey was inhabited by Anatolian Greeks, until 1923 when a population exchange was agreed by the Turkish and Greek governments which left the town as a site of empty houses and Greek churches. Kayaköy (Levissi is a village 8 km south of Fethiye in southwestern Turkey where Anatolian Greeks lived until approximately 1923 Turkey (Türkiye known officially as the Republic of Turkey ( is a Eurasian Country that stretches There are many ghost villages in Iran, Syria and Lebanon abandoned as a result of migration to major cities. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Iran topics. Syria ( سوريّة or) officially the Syrian Arab Republic (Arabic ar الجمهورية العربية السورية Lebanon (ˈlɛbənɒn Arabic: ar لبنان Lubnān) officially the Republic of Lebanon or Lebanese Republic (ar الجمهورية اللبنانية Most of these towns are in ruins and a few serve as tourist attractions. In addition, the Syrian city of Quneitra has become a ghost town after the 1967 Six Day War and subsequent Yom Kippur war in 1973. Quneitra (also Al Qunaytirah, Qunaitira, or Kuneitra; القنيطرة is the largely destroyed and abandoned Capital of the Quneitra

Asia

Cambodia

The 12th-century temple of Angkor Wat apparently had a large settlement or settled area surrounding it between the 9th and 16th centuries AD. Angkor Wat (or Angkor Vat) (អង្គរវត្ត is a Temple complex at Angkor, Cambodia, built for King Suryavarman II [5] [6]

Pakistan

Harappa and Mohenjo Daro, two ancient cities in current day Pakistan, have such good quality bricks displaying the creativity of the ancient people, that they still stand to their original forms up to 75%. Harappa ( Urdu:, Hindi: हड़प्पा) is a City in Punjab, northeast Pakistan, about 35km (22 miles southwest Mohenjo-daro (موئن جودڑو موئن جو دڙو मोहन जोदड़ो Mound of the Dead was one of the largest city-settlements of the Indus Valley Civilization Pakistan () officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country located in South Asia, Southwest Asia, Middle East and

India

In addition, numerous cities in India, such as Vijaynagar, Bhangarh, and others, have been known to have been destroyed or turned into ghost towns. India, officially the Republic of India (भारत गणराज्य inc-Latn Bhārat Gaṇarājya; see also other Indian languages) is a country Vijayanagara (ವಿಜಯನಗರ is in Bellary District, northern Karnataka. Comment --> Bhangarh is a Town known for its historical ruins situated in the Alwar district of the state of Rajasthan, India

Japan

Hashima Island was a Japanese mining town from 1887 to 1974. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Japan topics. Once known for having the world's highest population density (in 1959 at 83,500 people per square kilometer), the island was abandoned when the coal mines were closed down.

Africa

In Morocco a significant archaeological site, Chellah, was inhabited successively by Phoenicians, Romans and native rulers: however, Chellah was almost totally abadoned and became a ghost town in the 13th century AD, when the ruling dynasty relocated to Fes; the site was resettled by the Merinid Dynasty within the next century and re-used as a necropolis and mosque. Morocco (المغرب "al-Maghrib" officially the Kingdom of Morocco (المملكة المغربية is a country located in North Africa Chellah, or Chella, (شالة is a Necropolis and complex of ancient and Medieval Ruins that lie on the outskirts of Rabat, Fes or Fez ( Arabic: فاس, French Fès is the fourth largest City in Morocco, after Casablanca, Rabat The Anglicised name used for this article derives from the Arabic Banu Marin (also Benī Merīn, which is the source of the Spanish name A necropolis (plural necropoleis or necropoles) is a large Cemetery or burial place (from Greek nekropolis "city of the dead" A "mosque" in English refers to all types of buildings dedicated for Islamic worship although there is a distinction in Arabic between the smaller privately owned mosque and the larger [5]

Outside Luderitz, Namibia there are two ghost towns, Elizabeth Bay and Kolmanskop. Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa on the Atlantic coast Elizabeth Bay (formerly Elisabethbucht) is a Ghost town in southern Namibia. Kolmannskuppe (also Kolmanskuppe with just one n Afrikaans: Kolmanskop is a Ghost town in southern Namibia, a few kilometres inland from the Both were diamond mining towns and have been partly covered by the shifting sands of the Namib Desert. The Namib Desert is a Desert in Namibia and southwest Angola which forms part of the Namib-Naukluft National Park. There is also the ancient city of Carthage, which was rendered a ghost town by the Romans, revived by the same empire, and then destroyed again a few centuries later, with Tunis becoming the central city. Carthage (Καρχηδών Karkhēdōn, Carthago from the Phoenician קרת חדשת phn-Latn Qart-ḥadašt meaning new town) refers Tunis ( Arabic: تونس Tūnis) is the Capital of the Tunisian Republic and also the Tunis Suburban settlement later occurred in the Carthage area.

Dallol is a former mining town in Ethiopia. Dallol is a settlement in northern Ethiopia. Located It is located in the Dallol crater, where the temperature can rise as high as 104 °Fahrenheit (40 °C). Dallol is a Volcanic explosion crater (or Maar) in the Danakil Depression, northeast of the Erta Ale Range in Ethiopia. Therefore, it was the hottest inhabited place on Earth when people lived there.

Grand Bassam, Ivory Coast was the French Colonial capital of Ivory Coast until 1896, when it was abandoned by the French Colonial Government. Grand-Bassam is a city in Côte d'Ivoire, lying east of Abidjan. Côte d'Ivoire (ˌkoʊt divˈwɑː(r ' in English, kot diˈvwaʀ in French) or Ivory Coast, officially the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, is a Commercial activity gradually weakened until the city became a virtual ghost town in 1960, when the Ivory Coast became independent. Today the city has revived somewhat as a tourist and crafts center, but still has the aura of a ghost town, because large areas of the city, including some of its largest buildings, have been empty for decades.

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  1. ^ Print Version
  2. ^ Bruce Ramsey, Ghost Towns of British Columbia", Mitchell Press, Vancouver (1963-1975)
  3. ^ Monitor Daily, Dr. Boris Kolev: Over 150 are the dead villages in Bulgaria, Sofia, August 8, 2006 (in Bulgarian)
  4. ^ Trud Daily, Foreigners colonize native villages, Sofia, August 13, 2007 (in Bulgarian)
  5. ^ C. Michael Hogan (2007) Chellah, The Megalithic Portal, ed. Andy Burnham, [1]

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ghost town

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  1. A town which has become deserted, usually due to failing economic activity.
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