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Vineta or Wineta (sometimes held to be identical with Jomsborg) was a possibly legendary ancient town believed to have been on the coast of the Baltic Sea. It was commonly said to be on the present site of Wolin in Poland or of Zinnowitz on Usedom...
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Rungholt was a wealthy city in Nordfriesland, northern Germany. It sank beneath the waves when a storm tide (the first "Grote Mandrenke") in the North Sea tore through the area on January 16, 1362.
Rungholt was situated on the island of Strand,...
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Helike (English pronunciation: /ˈhɛlɨkiː/; Greek: Ἑλίκη, pronounced [heˈlikɛː], modern Greek pronunciation: [eˈlici]) was an ancient Greek city that disappeared at night in the winter of 373 BC. It was located in Achaea, northern Peloponnesos, two...
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| x Ancomah |
Ancomah (Antzomakh, Antzimah) is a mythological place which was first mentioned by Hasan Umur in the 1940s. It is approximately fifty meters inland near Trabzon, Turkey. It is a place on the lower slopes of a mountain.
According to the story,...
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Kitezh (Russian: Ки́теж) was a mythical city on the shores of the Svetloyar lake in the Voskresensky District of the Nizhny Novgorod Oblast in central Russia. It appears for the first time in "Kitezh Chronicle", an anonymous book from the late 18th...
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| x Mologa |
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Mologa (Russian: Моло́га) was a town in Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia, formerly situated at the confluence of Mologa and Volga Rivers, but now submerged under the waters of the Rybinsk Reservoir.
Mologa existed at least since the 12th century. It was a...
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| x Tartessos |
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Tartessos (Greek: Ταρτησσός) or Tartessus was a harbor city and surrounding culture on the south coast of the Iberian peninsula (in modern Andalusia, Spain), at the mouth of the Guadalquivir River. It appears in sources from Greece and the Near East...
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Capel Celyn was a rural community to the north west of Bala in Gwynedd, north Wales, in the Afon Tryweryn valley. The village and other parts of the valley were flooded to create a reservoir, Llyn Celyn, in order to supply Liverpool and The Wirral...
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| x Brown's Station |
Brown's Station, New York is a village that no longer exists. It was located in the Esopus Valley of southeastern Ulster County, New York (USA), and it was submerged by the waters of the Ashokan Reservoir, an artificial lake built between 1906 and...
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Korcheva (Russian: Корчева) was a town in central Russia, on the territory of the modern Tver Oblast, on the Volga River, with a population of a few thousand people. It received town status in 1781 by the order of the empress Catherine II.
As the...
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| x Carpia |
Carpia was an Iberian city which is said to be the site of the ancient city Tartessos, which disappeared around 600 BCE, or the refoundation of the sunken city.
Pausanias, a Greek traveller and geographer of the 2nd century CE, wrote of a connection...
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| x Skniatino |
Sknyatino (Russian: Скнятино) is a village in Kalyazinsky District of Tver Oblast, Russia, situated at the confluence of the Nerl and the Volga Rivers, about halfway between Uglich and Tver. It is the site of the medieval town of Ksnyatin, founded...
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| x Shagonar |
Shagonar (Russian: Шагонар; Tuvan: Шагаан-Арыг) is a town and the administrative center of Ulug-Khemsky District of the Tuva Republic, Russia, located on the left bank of the Yenisei 124 kilometers (77 mi) west of Kyzyl. Population: 10,958 (2010...
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| x Kalyazin |
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Kalyazin (Russian: Каля́зин) is a town and the administrative center of Kalyazinsky District of Tver Oblast, Russia, located on the Volga River, 25 kilometers (16 mi) southeast of Kashin, 110 kilometers (68 mi) north of Sergiyev Posad, and 55...
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| x Phanagoria |
Phanagoria (Greek: Φαναγορ(ε)ία) was the largest Greek colony on the Taman peninsula, spreading on two plateaux along the Asian shore of the Cimmerian Bosporus, 25 kilometers (15.5 mi) northeast of Hermonassa. The ancient city became the great...
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Atil (Turkish: İtil), literally meaning "Big River", was the capital of Khazaria from the middle of the 8th century until the end of the 10th century. The word is also a Turkic name for the Volga River.
Atil was located along the Volga delta at the...
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| x Rhakotis |
Rhacotis, Egyptian (𓂋𓏤𓂝𓀨𓏏𓊖) Râ-Kedet, Greek Ῥακῶτις, was the original name of the city of Alexandria on the northern coast of Egypt, before it was renamed by Alexander the Great. Rhacotis, unlike the ports of the Nile Delta, was reliably accessible...
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| x Saeftinghe |
Saeftinghe or Saaftinge was a town in eastern Zeeuws-Vlaanderen, Belgium, near Nieuw-Namen that existed until 1584. It is a swamp known as the Verdronken Land van Saeftinghe (Drowned Land of Saeftinghe) which is an official nature reserve area. The...
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| x Boura |
Boura (also Bura, Bira; Greek: Βοῦρα), was an ancient city of Achaea, Greece, one of the 12 cities of the Achaean League.
It is said to have derived its name from a daughter of Ion and Helice.
The city was situated on a height 40 stadia from the sea...
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Ravenser Odd, also spelled Ravensrodd, was a port in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, during the medieval period, built on the sandbanks at the mouth of the Humber estuary.
The name Ravenser comes from the Viking 'Hrafn's Eyr' or "Raven's...
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| x Ravenspurn |
Ravenspurn was a town in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, which was lost due to coastal erosion, one of more than 30 along the Holderness Coast which have been lost to the North Sea since the 19th century. The town was located close to the end...
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| x Olous |
Olous or Olus (Ancient Greek: Ὄλους, or Ὄλουλις) is an ancient, sunken city situated at the present day town of Elounda, Crete, Greece.
After continuing boundary disputes with the hillfort of Lato, the citizens of Olous eventually entered into a...
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| x Cantref Gwaelod |
Cantre'r Gwaelod, also known as Cantref Gwaelod or Cantref y Gwaelod (English: The Lowland Hundred), is a legendary ancient sunken kingdom said to have occupied a tract of fertile land lying between Ramsey Island and Bardsey Island in what is now...
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Morganton was a community once located in Loudon County, Tennessee, in the southeastern United States. Although now submerged by Tellico Lake, during its heyday in the 19th century Morganton thrived as a flatboat port and regional business center....
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Selsey is a seaside town and civil parish, about eight miles (12 km) south of Chichester, in the Chichester District of West Sussex, England. Selsey lies at the southernmost point of the Manhood Peninsula, almost cut off from mainland Sussex by the...
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| x Llys Helig |
Llys Helig was the palace of Prince Helig ap Glanawg (also spelled Glannog) who lived in the 6th century, and whose sons established a number of churches in the area.
He owned a large area of land between the Great Orme's Head near Llandudno and the...
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| x Yonaguni Monument |
The Yonaguni Monument is a massive underwater rock formation off the coast of Yonaguni, the southernmost of the Ryukyu Islands, in Japan. There is a debate about whether the site is completely natural, is a natural site that has been modified, or is...
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| x Mahabalipuram |
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Mahabalipuram, derived from 'Mamallapuram' (Tamil: மாமல்லபுரம்) is the prior and colloquial name of a town in Kancheepuram district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, now officially called Mamallapuram. It has an average elevation of 12 metres (39...
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