Editing Ghost town (section)

=== Armed conflicts ===
[[File:Aghdam_6.jpg|thumb|left|Nature slowly reclaiming the ruins in [[Aghdam]] (2010)]]
Some towns become deserted when their populations were [[massacre]]d, deported, or expelled. Examples include Kayaköy, an ancient Greek city abandoned in 1923 as result of [[population exchange between Greece and Turkey]] and the original French village at [[Oradour-sur-Glane]] which was destroyed on [[Oradour-sur-Glane massacre|10 June 1944]] when 642 of its 663 inhabitants were killed by a German [[Waffen-SS]] company. A new village was built after the war on a nearby site, and the ruins of the original have been maintained as a memorial.
Another example is [[Aghdam]], a city in [[Azerbaijan]]. Armenian forces occupied [[Aghdam]] in July 1993 during the [[First Nagorno-Karabakh War]]. The heavy fighting forced the entire population to flee. Upon seizing the city, Armenian forces destroyed much of the town to discourage Azerbaijanis from returning. More damage occurred in the following decades when locals looted the abandoned town for building materials. It is currently almost entirely ruined and uninhabited.