Depopulated

I am a double refugee — my mother is from Kufr Sabt and my father from Sajara, both depopulated villages, who married and raised five children, all of whom grew up with severe refugee syndrome.

From a prewar population of about 31,000, the town has been depopulated and left in ruins.

West End was largely depopulated after a decline in the textile and flax industry and in 1966, the village was fully abandoned to allow for the construction of the reservoir.

As Gozo was depopulated, the Knights brought over people from Malta and elsewhere to take over the fields and property vacated by this slavery of the Turks.

The DA’s Bureau of Animal Industry, meanwhile, said 62,223 pigs have been so far culled or depopulated because of ASF.

If the project can thrive in this environment perhaps we might think about doing something in one of those woefully depopulated Australian country towns.

A short epilogue envisages Earth many centuries later, after the sun has cooled and Earth has been depopulated, with humans now living on the terraformed inner planets.

As part of Pol Pot's "ideological intent…to create a purely agrarian society or cooperative", he "dismantled the country's existing economic infrastructure and depopulated every urban area".

Because the area had been depopulated by plague in the early 18th century, King Frederick William I of Prussia invited Protestant refugees who had been expelled from the Archbishopric of Salzburg to settle in Insterburg in 1732.

But the Boer War concentration camp system was the first time that a whole nation had been systematically targeted, and the first in which some whole regions had been depopulated.

Decades of war left Kandahar and the rest of the country destroyed and depopulated, but in recent years billions of dollars began pouring in for construction purposes and millions of expats have returned to Afghanistan.

Large towns and the areas where Ottoman power predominated remained severely depopulated until the 19th century.

Medinah will have been depopulated for forty years by the time of al-Qiyama.

More than 400 Arab villages, and about ten Jewish villages and neighborhoods, were depopulated during the Arab-Israeli conflict, most of them during 1948.

Much of the county remains rural in nature and Norfolk is believed to have around 200 lost settlements which have been largely or totally depopulated since the medieval period.

Of greater long-term demographic impact is emigration: Ireland was chiefly depopulated after the 1840s famines by waves of emigration.

One major element of that policy was the massive deportation and redistribution of populations, which aimed to punish, prevent rebellion, and repopulate depopulated areas in order to maintain food production in the empire.

Polish colonisers of depopulated lands in northern and central Ukraine founded or re-founded many towns.

Russian government officials invited Mennonites living in Prussia to farm the Ukrainian steppes depopulated by Tatar raids in exchange for religious freedom and military exemption.

Several areas that the expedition crossed became depopulated by disease caused by contact with the Europeans.