Ghost Towns

Sad remains of a recent war, dreadful monuments of an ethnic conflict between Armenian and Azerbaijani people, hallmarked by the name: Nagorno-Karabakh.

In this first post I share my related findings from Azerbaijan:

Ghost Towns.kmz (4.53 KB)

Keep Photo Layer On! (No more... at least Panoramio does not exist anymore)



Related from oGEC:
8 Abandoned "Ghost " Towns by our unforgetable Danescombe 

These are from all around the World. Agdam, Azerbaijan is included and switching GE GEC layer on, the quoted text below can be read as an interesting addition to the ruin site:

The eerie city of Agdam, Azerbaijan was once a thriving city of 150,000 people. It was lost in 1993 during the Nagorno Karabakh war; though the city was never the setting of combat, it fell victim to vandalism while occupied by Armenians. The buildings are gutted and empty, with only the graffiti-covered mosque remaining intact. Agdam residents have moved to other areas of Azerbaijan, as well as into Iran.

Quite dramatic.

Assodé - ruins of quite a big, abandoned settlement doomed by Kaocen Revolt - Tuareg rebellion (1916-1917).

I have tried to locate other ruined settlements of Tuareg rebellions with not much success so far.



Tuareg War.kmz (926 B)

Bayzhigit - abandoned for unknown reason, from unknown date.



Bayzhigit abandoned.kmz (707 B)

and many more sad examples from the endless steppe of Kazakhstan. e.g.:

Malye Kamkaly - almost every building stands roofless:  44°44'18.46"N, 71°30'55.23"E

Whaz happening?

Interesting, there is a quite the same size inhabited settlement 3 kilometers to NW.



ghost town - Niger.kmz (762 B)

No content for the site in GE layers, but some can be found on GMaps.

Abandoned settlement with active yurts and the site of "Olgii (Buddhist) Monastery". (I think it is that intact building just below my placemark.)



Also I have added two links to placemark description: A GSearch results page for the cyrillic GMaps placemark and one of the results - mongoliantemples.org (mongolian / cyrillic)

Ghost town Olgii Mongolia.kmz (970 B)

Firstly I have spotted this bigger settlement - Raqmet. Also I have tried a GSearch for the name, but no results so far...


web-GE link >>49.2730897, 65.27539879<<
Ghost town - Raqmet Kaz..kmz (785 B)

This smaller village nearby also can be another example of a "Soviet Ghost Farm"


web-GE link >>49.1856992, 64.88130799<<
Abandoned village - Kaz..kmz (931 B)

Ceresuela is a Spanish town in the Pyrenees and has been depopulated for over 100 years.

42.550340° 0.004441°

Chacabuco is an abandoned nitrate or "saltpeter" town ("oficinas salitreras" in Spanish) in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile. Chacabuco became a concentration camp during the Pinochet regime in 1973. Chacabuco was founded in 1924 by the Lautaro Nitrate Company Ltd. and had over a thousand inhabitants. It closed its doors in 1938 because synthetic nitrate, invented in Germany, made saltpeter mining unprofitable.

Attachments:

Chacabuco.kmz (688 B)