depopulated

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of Depopulate

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the 15th century plagues left vast areas of Europe depopulated Source: Internet

"As a result Constantinople became seriously depopulated," Talbot concludes. Source: Internet

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. Source: Internet

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". Source: Internet

An area 200 miles to the north of the center of the state, 300 miles to the west, and 500 miles to the south was ravaged and depopulated. Source: Internet

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. Source: Internet

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