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=== Europe === ==== Austria ==== * [[Noreia]] – the capital of the ancient Celtic kingdom of Noricum. Possibly in southern [[Austria]] or [[Slovenia]]. ==== Bosnia and Herzegovina ==== * [[Daorson]] – the capital of ancient Illyrian community in present-day [[Bosnia and Herzegovina]]. ==== Bulgaria ==== * [[Perperikon]] – the megalith complex had been laid in ruins and re-erected many times in history – from the Bronze Age until Middle Ages. * [[Seuthopolis]] – an ancient Thracian city, discovered and excavated in 1948. It was founded by king [[Seuthes III]] around 325 BC. Its ruins are now located at the bottom of the [[Koprinka Reservoir]] near the city of [[Kazanlak]]. ==== Croatia ==== * [[Heraclea (Croatia)|Heraclea]] somewhere in the Adriatic on the Croatian coast. Exact location unknown. ==== Denmark ==== * [[Høgekøbing]] * [[Ræveleje]] * [[Serridslev]] * [[Sønderside]]<ref>{{cite web | url=https://videnskab.dk/kultur-samfund/arkaeologer-finder-spor-fra-druknet-middelalderhavn-hvordan-kunne-den-forsvinde-saa-pludseligt/ | title=Arkæologer finder spor fra druknet middelalderhavn: Hvordan kunne den forsvinde så pludseligt? | date=5 February 2024 }}</ref> ==== Finland ==== * [[Teljä]] ==== France ==== * [[Quentovic]] – In 842, the ancient port of ''Quentovicus'' was destroyed by a Viking fleet. * [[Thérouanne]] – In 1553, the city was razed, the roads broken up and the fields ploughed and salted by command of [[Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor|Charles V]]. ==== Germany ==== * [[Damasia]] – An ancient hill-top settlement on the [[Lech (river)|Lech]], of the Licates, a tribe of the Celtic [[Vindelici]]. Commonly identified with either the [[Auerberg]] or pre-Roman [[Augsburg]]. According to folklore, sunken into the [[Ammersee]]. * [[Hedeby]] * [[Rungholt]] – [[Wadden Sea]] in [[Germany]], sunk during the "[[Grote Mandrenke]]", a storm surge in the [[North Sea]] on January 16, 1362 * [[Niedam]] – near [[Rungholt]] * [[Vineta]] ==== Greece ==== * [[Santorini#Minoan Akrotiri|Akrotiri]] – on the island of [[Santorini|Thera]], Greece. * [[Chryse Island]] – in the Aegean, reputed site of an ancient temple still visible on the sea floor. * [[Helike]] – sunk by an [[earthquake]] in the 4th century BC and rediscovered in the 1990s. * [[Mycenae]] * [[Pavlopetri]] – underwater off the coast of southern Laconia in [[Peloponnese]], is about 5,000 years old, and is the oldest submerged archaeological town site. ==== Hungary ==== * [[Avar Ring]] – central stronghold of the [[Pannonian Avars|Avars]], it is believed to have been in the wide plain between the [[Danube]] and the [[Tisza]].<ref>[http://www.mainlesson.com/display.php?author=morris&book=french&story=avars Charlemagne and the Avars].</ref> ==== Iceland ==== * [[Gunnbjörn's skerries]] - a group of islands between Iceland and Greenland that were briefly settled before being destroyed in a volcanic eruption. ==== Italy ==== * [[Acerrae Vatriae]] – a town of the Sarranates mentioned by [[Pliny the Elder]] as having been situated in an unknown location in [[Umbria]]. * [[Castro, Lazio|Castro]] – a city in [[Lazio]], capital of a Duchy ruled by the Farnese family. It was destroyed by a Papal army in 1649. * [[Luni, Italy|Luni]] * [[Paestum]] – Greek and Roman city south of Naples; three famous Greek temples. * [[Pompeii]], [[Herculaneum]], and [[Stabiae]] – all buried during the eruption of [[Vesuvius]] in 79 AD and rediscovered in the 18th century. * [[Sybaris]], [[Italy]] – ancient Greek colonial city of unsurpassed wealth utterly destroyed by its arch-rival [[Crotona]] in 510 BC. * [[Tripergole]] – ancient Roman spa village on the eastern shores of the [[Lucrine Lake]] in the [[Campi Flegrei]]. The village and most of the lake were buried by [[tephra]] in 1538 during the volcanic eruption that created [[Monte Nuovo]]. The exact location of the village and its associated hot springs can no longer be identified. ==== Lithuania ==== * [[Apuolė]] ==== Netherlands ==== * [[Brittenburg]] – ancient Roman settlement * [[Dorestad]] * [[Verdronken Land van Reimerswaal|Reimerswaal]] – flooded in the 16th century. * [[Saeftinghe]] – prosperous city lost to the sea in 1584. ==== Norway ==== * [[Kaupang]] – In Viksfjord near [[Larvik]], [[Norway]]. Largest trading city around the [[Oslo Fjord]] during the [[Viking]] age. As sea levels retreated (the shoreline is 7m lower today than in 1000) the city was no longer accessible from the ocean and was abandoned. ==== Poland ==== * [[Biskupin]] * [[Truso]] * [[Jomsborg]] ==== Portugal ==== * [[Ammaia]] - Roman villa Abandoned between the 5th and the 9th century AD. * [[Conímbriga]] – early trading post dating to the 9th century BC. Abandoned in the 8th century AD. ==== Romania ==== * [[Sarmisegetuza Regia]] – the old capital of the Ancient Dacian Kingdom. * [[Vicina (town)|Vicina]] – a port on the [[Danube]], near the [[Danube Delta|Delta]]. * [[Orașul de Floci]] – a former trading town on the [[Danube]]. ==== Russia ==== * [[Bolghar]] – important [[Silk Road]] city on the [[Volga]] river, razed by the [[Tatars|Tatar]]. * [[Ilimsk]] – a small town in [[Siberia]]. Flooded by the Ust-Ilimsk Reservoir in the mid-1970s. * [[Kitezh]] – mythical city beneath the waters in central [[Russia]]. * [[Mangazeya]] – a trading colony on the [[Pomors]]' [[Northern Sea Route]], was abandoned in the 17th century after the Northern Sea Route was banned. Mangazeya was considered lost until it was re-discovered by archaeologists in 1967.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Watkins |first1=Thayer |title=Mangazeya: A 16th Century Arctic Trading City |url=http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/mangazeya.htm |publisher=[[San José State University]] |access-date=8 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021125045505/http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/mangazeya.htm |archive-date=25 November 2002 |url-status=dead}}</ref> * [[Peremyshl, Muscovy|Peremyshl]] – town that was founded in 1152. * [[Tmutarakan]] – a trading town of [[Rus' Khaganate]] ==== Serbia ==== * [[Stari Ras]] – one of the first capitals of the medieval Serbian state of Raška, abandoned in the 13th century. ==== Slovakia ==== * Myšia Hôrka (near [[Spišský Štvrtok]]) – 3500 years old town (rediscovered in the 20th century) and archaeological site. ==== Spain ==== * [[Amaya (Burgos)|Amaya]] – either the capital or one of the most important cities of the [[Cantabri]]. Probably located in what nowadays is called "Amaya Peak" in [[Burgos]], northern [[Spain]]. * [[Cypsela, Spain|Cypsela]] – drowned Ibero-Greek settlement in the Catalan shore, Spain. Mentioned by Greek, Roman and Medieval chroniclers. * [[Reccopolis]] – one of the capital cities founded in Hispania by the [[Visigoths]]. The site was incrementally abandoned in the 10th century. * [[Tartessos]] – a harbor city or an economical complex of small harbors and trade routes set on the mouth of the Guadalquivir river, in modern Andalusia, Spain. Tartessos is believed to be either the seat of an independent kingdom or a community of palatial cities devoted to exporting the mineral resources of the Hispanic mainland to the sea, to meet the Phoenician and Greek traders. Its destruction is still a matter of debate among historians, and one modern tendency tends to believe that Tartessos was never a city, but a culture complex. ==== Sweden ==== * [[Birka]] * [[Ny Varberg]] * [[Uppåkra]] ==== United Kingdom ==== * [[Calleva Atrebatum]], [[Silchester]], [[England]] – large Romano-British walled city {{convert|10|mi|km}} south of present-day [[Reading, Berkshire]]. Just the walls remain and a street pattern can be discerned from the air. * [[Evonium]], [[Scotland]] – purported coronation site and capital of 40 kings * [[Skara Brae]], [[Orkney]], Scotland – Neolithic settlement buried under sediment. Uncovered by a winter storm in 1850. ==== Ukraine ==== * [[Árheimar]] – a capital of the [[Goths]], that was located near the [[Dnieper]] river * [[Bolokhiv]] – abandoned in the 13th century.
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