Abandoned village

An abandoned village is a village that has, for some reason, been deserted. In many countries, and throughout history, thousands of villages have been deserted for a variety of causes. Abandonment of villages is often related to epidemic, famine, war, climate change, economic depressions, environmental destruction, or deliberate clearances.

This article is about the archaeological term for an abandoned settlement. For the term for a more recently abandoned settlement, see Ghost town. For a list of settlements that fell into terminal decline and became uninhabited, see Lost city.

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