![]() On the western edge of Vantaa's Ilola district, there is an illegal village called Simosenkylä, where the houses are mainly dilapidated, some completely abandoned. ![]() Some of these are reported to be landmined. ![]() Villages have been abandoned as a result of the Cyprus dispute. See also walled villages of Hong Kong and list of villages in Hong Kong. Some villages have been moved to new sites to make way for reservoirs or new town development. Residents go to live in urban areas with better job opportunities. Many villages in remote parts of the New Territories, Hong Kong, usually in valleys or on islands, have been abandoned due to inaccessibility. Then in 1998 another plan for expansion for the Port of Antwerp was released and most of the inhabitants left. Then an economic crisis occurred and this plan for expansion was halted. In 1968 in the town of Doel, a building ban was implemented so that the Port of Antwerp could expand. Twenty-two thousand people lived there in the 96 settlements that were abandoned, including Aravichy and Dzernavichy, and the area has since been expanded by a further 849 km 2 (328 sq mi). ![]() In 1988, two years after the Chernobyl disaster, the Belarusian government created the Polesie State Radioecological Reserve, a 1,313 km 2 (507 sq mi) exclusion zone to protect people against the effects of radiation. In Australia, an abandoned settlement that has infrastructure remaining is synonymous with ghost town. Others when the settlement was abandoned for any number of other reasons such as recurring natural disasters such as bushfires or changed circumstances. Some towns have been lost or moved when dams are built. This has occurred in the cases of Mary Kathleen, Goldsworthy and Shay Gap, but not in cases such as Wittenoom and Big Bell. In Australia, the government requires operators of mining towns to remove all traces of the town when it is abandoned. Some of the Armenian settlements and churches outside Armenia and the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic have either been destroyed or damaged including those in Nakhichevan. Likewise, nearly 300,000 Armenians fled from Azerbaijan between 19, including 50 villages populated by Armenians in Northern Nagorno Karabakh that were abandoned. Between 19, 400,000 ethnic Azeris, and Kurds fled the area and nearly 200 villages in Armenia itself populated by Azeris and Kurds were abandoned by 1991. Hundreds of villages in Nagorno-Karabakh were deserted following the First Nagorno-Karabakh War. ![]() Abandonment of villages is often related to epidemic, famine, war, climate change, economic depressions, environmental destruction, or deliberate clearances. In many countries, and throughout history, thousands of villages have been deserted for a variety of causes. For a list of settlements that fell into terminal decline and became uninhabited, see Lost city.Ībandoned 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 ( Argentina)Īn abandoned village is a village that has, for some reason, been deserted. For the term for a more recently abandoned settlement, see Ghost town. This article is about the archaeological term for an abandoned settlement. ![]()
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