Dead Cities of the Byzantine Empire.
"Dead Cities are a group of 700 abandoned settlements in northwest Syria between Aleppo and Idlib...Most of the villages, which date from the 1st to 7th centuries, were abandoned between the 8th and 10th centuries."
"Dead Cities are a group of 700 abandoned settlements in northwest Syria between Aleppo and Idlib...Most of the villages, which date from the 1st to 7th centuries, were abandoned between the 8th and 10th centuries."
If around 200 people lived in each settlement, the area would have once had a population of 140,000 people.
For comparison, a large study of Germanic villages from the early Middle Ages found around 200 people per village.
For comparison, a large study of Germanic villages from the early Middle Ages found around 200 people per village.
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