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Abandoned and absorbed villages of Western and Northern Europe
Abandoned and absorbed villages of Western and Northern Europe: deserted medieval villages (DMVs, Wüstungen), England's 2,000+ lost sites, Wharram Percy, drowned Dutch villages like Schokland, and the nine unrebuilt Verdun communes.
Abandoned village
An abandoned village is a village deserted through disaster, disease, war, economic decline, or deliberate clearance, as at Chernobyl, Imber, and Tyneham, leaving ruins or earthworks.
Abandoned villages in Hong Kong
Abandoned villages in Hong Kong are former rural settlements, mostly Hakka communities in the New Territories, that emptied from the 1950s to the 1990s as farming collapsed and villagers emigrated.
Abbotts Ann
Abbotts Ann (Ann Abbatis, Anne Abbatis) is a Hampshire village 3 miles southwest of Andover on the Pillhill Brook, with a Domesday manor of Hyde Abbey, a 1716 Grade I Georgian church holding England's largest collection of Virgins' Crowns, and a Roman villa site.
Abdullino
Abdullino is the shared name of several villages in the Volga-Ural region of Russia, chiefly in the Republic of Bashkortostan, dating from the 18th century.
Aberdyfi
Aberdyfi (Aberdovey) is a Welsh seaside village and former shipbuilding port on the north side of the Dyfi estuary in Gwynedd, within Snowdonia National Park, known for its beach, sailing, ferry history, and Dyfi Biosphere setting.
Abersoch
Abersoch, seaside village on the Llŷn Peninsula, Gwynedd, at the mouth of the Afon Soch; former fishing hamlet turned major Welsh sailing and watersports resort, known for tiered beach huts, the South Caernarvonshire Yacht Club, The Warren holiday park, and severe second-home pressure.
Abolished rural localities in Russia
Abolished rural localities in Russia are villages that lost their people and sometimes their legal existence, vanishing through depopulation, absorption into neighbors, or formal decree rather than one uniform process.
Achiaman
Achiaman is a peri-urban community in Ga West Municipal, Greater Accra, Ghana, about 22 km northwest of Accra near Amasaman. Founded by Nii Achia I; stool and family land conflicts; population 610, un-electrified in a JICA survey.
Acoma Pueblo
Acoma Pueblo (Haaku, "the prepared place") is a Native American village atop a 357-foot mesa in New Mexico, among the oldest continuously occupied communities in the United States, with the 1629 San Estevan del Rey mission church.
Adel
Adel, a suburb of Leeds, West Yorkshire, is the site of a scheduled Roman fort and vicus on the Tadcaster-Ilkley road, possibly the Cambodunum of the Antonine Itinerary, first noted by Ralph Thoresby in 1702.
Adilcevaz
Adilcevaz, a district of Bitlis Province, Türkiye, on the north shore of Lake Van; also called Ardzgue and Zatu'l-Cevaz (Valley of Walnuts). Known for the Urartian Kef Kalesi of King Rusa II, medieval Adilcevaz Castle, and 2017 underwater ruins.
Administrative divisions of New York (state)
Administrative divisions of New York State: counties, cities, towns, and villages as municipal corporations, with 57 counties outside New York City, 62 cities, 933 towns, 532 villages, hamlets without government, and home rule under Article IX.
Africville
Africville was a predominantly African Nova Scotian village on the Bedford Basin in Halifax, razed by the city between 1964 and 1970 for urban renewal; also called Campbell Road settlement, it received a 2010 apology and $3 million settlement.
Agloe, New York
Agloe, New York is a phantom settlement in the Catskills created by General Drafting cartographers Otto G. Lindberg and Ernest Alpers as a copyright trap, which became partly real when the Agloe General Store opened at the mapped intersection.
Agua Dulce, California
Agua Dulce is an unincorporated census-designated place in Los Angeles County, California, population 3,451 (2020), home to the 945-acre Vasquez Rocks Natural Area and governed under a low-density rural Community Standards District.
Ain Bessem
Ain Bessem (عين بسام), Aïn Bessem, is a town in Bouira Province, Algeria, on the Roman site of Castellum Auziens, with a hexagonal fort 2.5 km northwest, a sestertius hoard, and an 1879 French colonial center.
Aintree
Aintree is a village and civil parish in Sefton, Merseyside, England, home of Aintree Racecourse, host of the Grand National since 1839. Name means 'one tree'; Molyneux family long owned the land.
Aït Benhaddou
Aït Benhaddou, also known as Ksar of Ait-Ben-Haddou, is a fortified earthen village in Morocco's High Atlas foothills, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1987 and a famous film location.
Aix-en-Diois
Aix-en-Diois (Occitan Ais de Diés), a former commune in the Drôme, France, named from Latin aqua for its springs; Roman baths, a medieval castle, merged into Solaure-en-Diois in 2016.
Ajijic
Ajijic (Axixic) is a 1531-founded Pueblo Magico town on Lake Chapala's north shore in Jalisco, Mexico, known for its large North American retiree community, 22°C lakeside climate, and colonial parish of San Andres Apostol.
Akaroa
Akaroa is a harbour town on Banks Peninsula, New Zealand, site of the 1840 French Nanto-Bordelaise settlement, Treaty of Waitangi signings by Iwikau and Tīkao, and Hector's dolphin tourism.
Aksu
Aksu ("white water" in Turkic) names several places: a district of Antalya, Turkey (est. 2008), a district of Isparta (est. 1988), a Silk Road oasis and prefecture in Xinjiang, China, and a Kazakh city formerly called Yermak.
Akwesasne
Akwesasne, the Mohawk Nation of Akwesasne, is a Mohawk territory on the St. Lawrence River where Ontario and Quebec adjoin New York State, straddling the Canada–US border.
Al Baqa
Al Baqa (Arabic: البقعة) names several places: the Al Baqa'a Palestinian refugee camp in Jordan (est. 1968), West Bank villages near Hebron, Ramallah, and Tulkarem, and the Al-Baqa seafront café in Gaza City struck by an Israeli airstrike on 30 June 2025.
Al Kharj
Al Kharj (الخرج), Al-Kharj Governorate, is a category A governorate of Riyadh Province, Saudi Arabia, about 80 km southeast of Riyadh; population about 373,000 (2022), an ancient oasis, major dairy and agricultural hub, and site of Prince Sultan Air Base.
Al-Bassa
Al-Bassa (البصة) was a large Palestinian village in the Acre District, 19 km north of Acre, captured on 14 May 1948 during Operation Ben-Ami; its people were displaced and settlements including Shlomi were built on its lands.
Alderley Edge
Alderley Edge: village and civil parish in Cheshire East, England, south of Manchester. Railway village from 1842, formerly Chorlegh; England's oldest known metal-mining site, SSSI escarpment, wizard legend, National Trust woodland.
Alert Bay
Alert Bay ('Yalis) is a village municipality on Cormorant Island, British Columbia, incorporated 14 January 1946, named in 1860 after HMS Alert, sharing the island with the 'Namgis First Nation and home to the U'mista Cultural Centre.
Alevi villages of Turkey
Alevi villages of Turkey are rural settlements where Alevis form a majority, concentrated in Central and Eastern Anatolia, especially Sivas and Tunceli, typically without mosques and affected by heavy depopulation and forced evacuations.