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Varosha, as seen from outside the military fence Abandoned hotels in Varosha Varosha viewed from Paralimni in 2017.. Varosha (Greek: Βαρώσια, romanized: Varósia, locally; Turkish: Maraş or Kapalı Maraş [2] [3]) is the southern quarter of Famagusta, a de jure territory of Cyprus, currently under the control of Northern Cyprus.
Famagusta, [a] also known by several other names, is a city located in the Gazimağusa District of the de facto and unrecognised state of Northern Cyprus.It is located east of the capital, Nicosia, and possesses the deepest harbour of the island.
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Armazi, the original capital of the country, was destroyed in AD 736 by the Arab invader Marwan ibn Muhammad and never rebuilt, apart from a church, built in the 12th century but later abandoned. The ruins are now protected. Ochamchire was a city of 18,700 people in 1978 but was left largely abandoned by the ethnic cleansing of Georgians in ...
Dixie Cup Plant: Now. A giant Dixie Cup still rests atop the abandoned building, rusty and empty of the 40,000 gallons of water it once held. The owner hoped to turn the building into 128,000 ...
The Census Bureau says that there are about 15 million vacant housing units in the nation, an increase of 43.8 percent since 2000 when the number of vacant housing units totaled 10.4 million.
View from the occupied side to the Greek Cypriot side at Uray sk, next to the Turkish Public Market UN Buffer Zone warning sign on the Greek Cypriot side near Ledra crossing, with a view towards the Turkish side UN buffer zone guard post in Nicosia UN tower in the buffer zone Buffer zone in Nicosia Parking gate in the buffer zone
Scuffles broke out between United Nations peacekeepers and Turkish Cypriot security forces in ethnically split Cyprus on Friday over unauthorised construction work in an area under U.N. control ...