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The city of Ribeira Grande, climbing the slopes of the mountains

Gorée Island, Dakar, Senegal: ruins of the French navy hospital ('Hopital de la Marine'), to the left the collapsed walls of the western coastal artillery battery ('Batterie de l'ouest') and to the right the basalt cliffs of castle hill, home to Portuguese, Dutch and French fortifications.

Homes and business align the oceanfront cobblestone street in Faja D'Agua

$Until 1612, the region was inhabited by a cluster of Tupinambá indigenous villages, the main one being known as Tapuitapera. When the French arrived in Maranhão, led by Daniel de La Touche, they established relations with these villages, building the first chapel.\n\nBetween 1616 and 1618, with the expulsion of the French, the Portuguese began the process of occupying the region. With the division of captaincies in that territory, Tapuitapera became the seat of the captaincy of Cumã. The captaincy's first grantees were judge Antonio Coelho de Carvalho and his grandson Francisco de Albuquerque Coelho de Carvalho.\n\nDuring the Dutch invasion of 1641, the Portuguese lost possession of the land. With the retaking of the territory, Tapuitapera was elevated to Vila de Santo Antônio de Alcântara, in 1648, returning to some activity with sugar mills and cotton production. The Town Hall, a pillory and a main church were installed in the village.\n\nIn the 18th century, there was a policy of reincorporating the donatary captaincies into the Crown, with the captaincy of Cumã being extinguished by royal charter, around 1754.\n\nThe captaincy occupied the region between the mouth of the Mearim River, the Pindaré River and the Turiaçu River.\n\nSubsequently, Alcântara became the largest producing center in Maranhão, rivaling São Luís, in the period when Maranhão's economy was based on cotton and slave labor. In 1836, Alcântara was elevated to the category of city, reaching its economic peak. The children of large landowners were sent to study in Europe, which brought great European influence to the region.\n\nIn the second half of the 19th century, there was a great economic decline in the region, with a sharp drop due to the Abolition of Slavery and the colonization of other regions of Maranhão, however, the architectural collection of undeniable value, listed by IPHAN in 1948, remained as a testimony to the golden period.$

Muğla, Turkey-April 26, 2013: Exterior view of the ruins of the monastery in the ghost village of Kayaköy, abandoned many years ago.

Mogadishu, Somalia-April 29, 3013: Fishermen at the port of Mogadishu in Somalia.

Ölüdeniz is located in Fethiye district of Muğla province in Turkey. Kaya village, the abandoned village in Ölüdeniz.

View of the chapel among the ruins in Alcântara

Vieux Grand Port, Grand Port District, Mauritius, Mascarene Islands: ruins of Fort Frederik Henrik - The uninhabited island was discovered in 1507 by the Portuguese who established a visiting base. The first permanent settlement would only arrive more than a century later, in 1638, built by the sailors of another adventurous European nation, the Netherlands, who named it after Frederik Henrik, Prince of Orange, naming the island itself after Maurice, Prince of Orange. Parts of the fort were later built over by the French.

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Kyrenia, North Cyprus - August 01, 2013: Bellapais Abbey, Kral IV. Hugh, 1284

Granada, Nicaragua, September 2014: View on abandoned Catholic hospital in Granada, Nicaragua

Close-up of ruins of ancient Santa Mariña de Dozo church, 12th century, in Cambados, Pontevedra province, Galicia, Spain. Row of arched stone roof beams back lit, bell tower in the background, clear sky .

Malacca, Malaysia - April 10, 2015: man is making photo of wall of St. Paul church in Malacca, Malaysia

Abandoned village of a former copper and iron mine with poisoned earth and water

View of the abandoned Mine in Minas de Sao Domingos Village in Alentejo Portugal.

$Located in the town of Ujarras, Costa Rica are the ruins of the colonial catholic church \$

M'banza-Kongo / M'banza-Congo / São Salvador do Congo, Zaire Province, Angola: vestiges of M'banza Kongo, the capital of the Kingdom of Kongo since the late 14th century until the abolition of the kingdom in 1915. Mbanza Kongo illustrates, the changes caused by the introduction of Christianity and the arrival of the Portuguese into Central Africa. UNESCO World Heritage Site. Ruins of the Cathedral of the Holy Saviour of Congo, built under João I of Kongo, the 5th ManiKongo (he later abandoned Catholicism, as it was incompatible with polygamy).

Kaya village from Oludeniz, Fethiye, Turkey.

Abandoned Buildings of a Military Base in Tenerife Canary Islands Spain

Alcantara, Old city street view, Brazil, South America

The Canons Of Puerto de la Cruz in Tenerife, Spain

A concrete home under construction used as a living dwell in Fogo, Cabo Verde

Ruins of the old town of Saint-Pierre, Martinique, destroyed by the 1902 volcanic eruption of Mt Pelée

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