===
Albania === •
Qeparo ===
Austria === • The village of
Döllersheim was evicted and demolished due to the construction of a
Wehrmacht training ground. in
Belarus ===
Belarus === Many Belarusian villages were abandoned as a result of the
Chernobyl disaster in 1986. Most lie inside the
Polesie State Radioecological Reserve, with approximately 470 abandoned villages in the reserve. •
Aravichy • Babchin • Dronki • Vygribnaya Sloboda has seen a sharp decline in village populations, which the BAS says that without intervention, will lead to no more villages in Bulgaria by 2060. •
Chamla is an abandoned village in the
Smolyan municipality • Dolna Melna, near the
Serbian border. •
Dragostin is an abandoned village in
Gotse Delchev that was erased from the registers in 2008. • Kanitz, a village in northwest Bulgaria with 4 residents as of 2019. • Kashle, near the Serbian border. •
Sredna is an abandoned village in
Gotse Delchev that was erased from the registers in 2008. •
Zaim Chiflik ===
Bosnia and Herzegovina === •
Baljci, Tomislavgrad, is a village that became abandoned after the
Bosnian War. •
Jukići •
Milodraž, a medieval village that is today located in
Pobrđe Milodraž,
Kiseljak. •
Vranduk, a village in
Doboj that faced a similar fate as
Baljci. •
Ledići, an almost abandoned village with only two people, Obren Miovćić, and his wife Dragana. The village had a similar fate as
Vranduk and
Baljci. • Mracna Gora •
Tovarnica ===
Estonia=== •
Ahitsa •
Horosuu •
Kopli Lines, a former working class neighborhood in
Tallinn that has become largely abandoned and derelict following the
Soviet era. •
Sirgala, a former mining town near
Kohtla-Järve with a similar story to Viivikonna. •
Viivikonna, near
Kohtla-Järve, similar to Sirgala, is a former mining towns that started to lose its population after local
oil shale reserves were depleted and the industry moved eastwards. By the 21st century, both towns had only a handful of people left, struggling to find a new place to live. All residents were evicted by 1974. •
Celles, in
Hérault, was evacuated in preparation for it to be flooded by the construction of a dam, which ultimately never came to fruition. • Gyertyánvölgy was one of the four settlements created by the workers of the glass huts founded in the 18th century. The other three settlements were
Óhuta (today
Bükkszentlászló),
Újhuta (today
Bükkszentkereszt) and
Répáshuta (which still exists). The last glass hut operated here until 1897; the village was still inhabited at the beginning of the 20th century. In its cemetery, the first burial was in 1843, and the last in 1926. • Gyűrűfű was repopulated in the form of an eco-village. • Hertelendyújhely • Iharkút: its fate was sealed by the discovery of the
bauxite wealth below. The extraction started in 1979. The village's last inhabitants were moved to
Bakonyjákó,
Németbánya,
Herend and
Pápa. • Jásztelekpuszta: its fate is similar to Kápolnapuszta. • Kakpuszta: the inhabitants were moved because of the lack of road construction and electrification. • Kápolnapuszta: the 2nd Ukrainian Reconnaissance Front of the
Red Army exterminated nearly the entire population on March 16, 1945. • Márcadópuszta • Mónosokor • Nagyecsér, the most famous ghost town in Hungary. It was abandoned following school closure, an aging population, and the population leaving; the road to
Mezőnagymihály was never built. • Nagygéc, was totally destroyed by the 1970s
Szamos flooding; there is now a memorial park for the town. • Révfalu, an isolated village, nowadays a popular tourist destination. • Somogyszentimre •
Szentkirályszabadja, although the village is still populated, a small city sized Soviet military base is totally abandoned next to it. The settlement also has an airport, as well as panel buildings, shops, cinema, theater, kindergarten, and school for the families of the soldiers. The area was left when the soviet soldiers were withdrawn from Hungary in 1990. The airport operates to this day. This base is often called the Hungarian Chernobyl. • Vágotpuszta • Zelemér, the
Tatars ravaged whole of Northern Hungary including this village, which failed to revive. • Zsörk, the second-most famous ghost town in the country. ===
Iceland === • The former village of
Súðavík, in the
Westfjords, a remote region of northwestern Iceland. In 1995, an
avalanche fell on the small village, resulting in 14 fatalities. It was later decided that the location of the town was unsafe for year-round occupation. It has been forbidden ever since to live in the old town permanently. A new village was built from the ground up a few miles away from the old site in a safer location. ===
Ireland=== • Miners' Village,
Glendalough, County Wicklow was a small village based around a
galena mine. The village was largely inhabited from 1825 to 1957 when the mine closed permanently. •
Great Blasket Island, County Kerry, was evacuated in 1953 after being repeatedly cut off from the mainland due to poor weather. Its 160 residents were relocated to the mainland by the government. •
Innisfallen Island is the site of Innisfallen Abbey, once home to
Finian Lobhar. •
Rindoon, County Roscommon, was deserted by the 14th century. •
Slievemore is a deserted village on
Achill Island. •
Scattery Island is the site of a former village and monastery, and was once the home of
Saint Senan. ===
Italy=== , Italy • Alianello is a village in
Aliano municipality, evacuated after the
1980 Irpinia earthquake. •
Argentiera is a former mining town in
Sassari that suffered a population decline after World War II. • Avi, in
Piedmont. •
Balestrino, a town and municipality in
Liguria whose old town was abandoned in 1953. •
Bussana Vecchia is a town in
Liguria that was abandoned following an earthquake in 1887. •
Campomaggiore Vecchio was a town in
Potenza that was destroyed by an avalanche in 1885. The modern town of
Campomaggiore has replaced it. • Cirella Vecchia is the old town of
Cirella. •
Civita di Bagnoregio is a town in
Lazio that declined over the 16th and 17th centuries. • Connio Vecchio (Old Connio),
Piedmont. •
Consonno,
Olginate. •
Craco, in the
province of Matera, was depopulated in the middle of the 20th century, due to a landslide and the subsequent emigration. The abandonment has made Craco a popular filming location for movies such as
The Nativity Story,
The Passion of the Christ and
Quantum of Solace. •
Curon in
South Tyrol, the original site of which was flooded under
Reschensee during its construction in 1950. •
Graun in
South Tyrol, the original site of which was flooded under
Reschensee during its construction in 1950. •
Herculaneum was mostly destroyed and buried under of ash and pumice in the eruption of
Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. • Melito Vecchio (Old Melito),
Avellino. • Monteruga,
Apulia. •
Pentedattilo, in
Calabria, was severely damaged by the
1783 Calabrian earthquakes, and was completely abandoned by the 1960s. •
Poggioreale is a town in
Sicily that was destroyed by the
1968 Belice earthquake. •
Pompeii was mostly destroyed and buried under of ash and pumice in the eruption of
Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. •
Poveglia is an abandoned island that was once a quarantine station for Plague Victims and other victims of several diseases up until the 20th century. •
Reschen in
South Tyrol, the original site of which was flooded under
Reschensee during its construction in 1950. The presence of the village is attested since the Middle Ages, when there was a tower. During
World War II it was an important partisan base, Two projects have been proposed for the recovery of the village: in 2011 the proposal of Movimento Libero Perseo "Roveraia eco - lab", based on sustainability, and in 2019 there was a proposal aiming to recover the village with a mix of functions called "Ecomuseum of Pratomagno". • San Martino Monteneve in the
province of Bolzano was a mining town at above sea level between the Ridanna Valley and the Passirio Valley. It sits atop of mining tunnels running from one valley to the other. It is now part of the Monteneve mining museum. •
Tocco Caudio, in
Benevento, was abandoned following the
1980 Irpinia earthquake. • Leri Cavour is an abandoned village in Piedmont, situated next to a defunct nuclear reactor. Its most impressive building is the mansion of Camillo Cavour, who is famous for his efforts in creating a united Italy. ===
Latvia=== •
Skrunda-1, the site of a former Soviet
Hen House radar installation, is a ghost town that was auctioned off in its entirety in early 2010. •
Irbene, the site of a former Soviet secret radar center "Звезда". ===
Lithuania === • Konstantinava, a small village in Rokiškis municipality with an abandoned vocational school and nearby student residences. Due to a declining population, the school and all the apartments were deserted. Today, only a few people still live in the village. ===
Netherlands === Many villages in the
Netherlands were lost to the sea, see
List of settlements lost to floods in the Netherlands for the complete list. •
Schokland, this was a very large island in the Middle Ages, but due to the rising sea level and major erosion from the
Zuiderzee, the island became smaller and smaller. After a flood in 1825, life on the island was deemed too dangerous, and the two villages on the island:
Emmeloord and Ens were abandoned. When the
Noordoostpolder was created, Schokland became a landlocked elevation. The names
Emmeloord and
Ens were later used for villages in the newly-created polder. • Waterdunen, this town was lost to the
North Sea in 1357. Later when the land was reclaimed the town was rebuilt, only to be lost again a century later. One of many Dutch villages to be lost to the
North Sea,
list of flooded villages in Zeeland. •
Bommenede, the village was flooded on January 26, 1682. The destruction was so great, that the Estates of Holland decided not to rebuild the village, and the last inhabitants left in 1684. Some remains of the village (now sometimes referred to as Oud-Bommenede) still remain visible. Nowadays, there is still some overgrown debris in the waters of the
Grevelingen. ===
Norway=== •
Pyramiden ("The Pyramid") was a Russian settlement and coal mining community on the archipelago of
Svalbard. It was founded by Sweden in 1910, and sold to the
Soviet Union in 1927. The settlement, with a onetime 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. ===
Poland=== • Czerwona Woda ("Red Water") in
Kłodzko Valley was established by German immigrants before WWII. Most of the abandoned houses are found in the mountains of Klodzko Valley. •
Kłomino, near
Borne Sulinowo in the northwest part of the country, was established as a place of residence for Soviet troops stationed in Poland with their families. The population was about 5,000. It was completely depopulated by 1992 after the collapse of the USSR. Only a few families live there now, but there are plans to repopulate the city. •
Pstrąże, near
Bolesławiec in
Lower Silesian Voivodeship, a Soviet Army garrison, deserted following the fall of the Soviet Union. Dubbed the "Polish Chernobyl" due to its ghost town status and alleged nuclear history.
Bieszczady National Park is home to several abandoned settlements: •
Beniowa •
Bukowiec •
Dydiowa •
Dźwiniacz Górny •
Krywka •
Łokieć •
Sianki •
Sokoliki Górskie •
Tarnawa Wyżna ===
Portugal === • Picões, in the
freguesia of Bouçoães,
Valpaços,
Vila Real District •
Vilarinho da Furna,
Terras de Bouro, at
Braga District was a village with unique rules and way of life. It was abandoned and submerged in 1972 due to the building of Vilarinho das Furnas hydroelectric dam. When the lagoon water level is low the remains of the buildings can be seen. • Aldeia de Broas , at
Mafra Municipality, was officially considered abandoned when the last inhabitant died in late 1960 after being populated for centuries. ===
Romania=== 126 localities in Romania are "fictitious". They either have no inhabitants according to the last census, or they are actually in the bottom of an
accumulation lake or have completely disappeared from the face of the earth. Some villages have no construction, no access roads, but they continue to remain in the official data bases of the Romanian state. •
Toshkivka •
Pisky •
Soledar •
Popasna ===
United Kingdom=== Also see
List of lost settlements in the United Kingdom England •
Birchinlee in Derbyshire was a village built by the
Derwent Valley Water Board for the workers (and their families) who constructed the
Derwent and
Howden Dams between 1902 and 1916. •
Derwent in
Derbyshire was demolished in the 1940s to make way for the
Ladybower Reservoir. •
Cuddington was a hamlet in
Surrey that was demolished in the sixteenth century so that
Nonsuch Palace (itself later demolished) could be built. •
Dunwich, a once-thriving town on the
Suffolk coast, began to decline in 1286 when a storm swept much of it into the sea. Subsequent storms and coastal erosion have since claimed all but a few of the remaining buildings. •
Ewden Village in the Civil Parish of Stocksbridge was a timber-built village, completed in 1929 to house workers working on the Morehall and Broomhead reservoirs. •
Hallsands is a coastal village in
Devon that was destroyed by a storm in 1917. •
Hambleton, in
Rutland, is a civil parish that once included the settlements of Middle Hambleton and Nether Hambleton, which were both flooded in 1975 to create
Rutland Water. •
Heathrow, a small village in
Middlesex, was demolished in 1944 so that
Heathrow Airport could be built. •
Mardale Green in the
Lake District was demolished and flooded in 1935 to create
Haweswater Reservoir. •
Martinsthorpe, in
Rutland, is one of the few
civil parishes in England to have a population of zero. •
Ravenser Odd is a village on the coast of the
East Riding of Yorkshire, that was swept away in the
Grote Mandrenke storm of 1362. •
Ravenspurn, also on the coast of the East Riding of Yorkshire, south of Ravenser Odd, and near
Spurn Head, was abandoned in the 19th century and was swept into the
North Sea. •
Samson is a remote island of the
Isles of Scilly that has been deserted since 1855. •
Shipden, in
Norfolk, was washed into the sea in the 14th century. •
Stanlow Island, in
Merseyside found on the
Manchester Ship Canal was abandoned in the 1990s due to hazards of living nearby a
refinery. •
Tide Mills in
East Sussex was condemned as unfit for habitation and abandoned in 1939. •
Wyck, a
deserted medieval village in West Tisbury, abandoned in the 14th century. •
Wharram Percy is a medieval village in
North Yorkshire abandoned in the early 16th century for more sheep pasture. In 1942 and 1943, in preparation for the
Allied assault on Normandy, several villages were evacuated to be used as training grounds for the
British Army and U.S. forces. This was intended to be a temporary arrangement, but many of the villages remained abandoned, and are used for military training to this day. Some of these villages are listed below; most of them are located within the
Stanford Battle Area in
Norfolk. •
Buckenham Tofts,
Norfolk •
Imber,
Wiltshire •
Langford,
Norfolk •
Stanford,
Norfolk •
Sturston,
Norfolk •
Tottington,
Norfolk •
Tyneham,
Dorset •
West Tofts,
Norfolk Scotland •
Boreraig, on the
Isle of Skye, was one of many villages that were forcibly evacuated by Scottish aristocrats in the 18th and 19th centuries. •
Bothwellhaugh, in
North Lanarkshire, is a former coal mining town that now lies under
Strathclyde Loch. •
Hallaig, on the island of
Raasay, depopulated as part of the
Highland Clearances and subject of a famous
Gaelic poem by
Sorley MacLean. •
Mingulay, an island at the southern end of the
Outer Hebrides, depopulated as part of the ongoing effects of the Highland Clearances, the village on the island finally abandoned in 1912. • The
Monach Islands, also known as Heisker, in the Outer Hebrides; the village abandoned in 1932 and depopulated in 1942 with the closure of the lighthouse. •
North Rona is a remote Scottish island that has been deserted since 1844. •
Scarp, whose last permanent inhabitants left for nearby
Harris in 1971. Site of
Gerhard Zucker's experiments with
rocket mail. •
Saint Kilda is an archipelago in the
Outer Hebrides that was abandoned in 1930, and is now a
World Heritage Site.
Wales •
Capel Celyn in
Gwynedd was flooded in 1965 to create the reservoir
Llyn Celyn. •
Llangaffo in
Anglesey, north of
Dwyran, south of
Gaerwen and northwest of
Llanidan where the school had closed down and maintained its ghost town status until 2023. •
Nant Gwrtheyrn in
Gwynedd is a former quarry town that became abandoned during World War II, but is now the site of a Welsh language learning centre. ==North America==