This was a working day, but the centre of the capital Nicosia was a ghost town.
The city's outskirts "appeared to be a ghost town, " and the few people left were leaving.
As the morning wore on and gunfire became more sporadic, the ghost town came to life.
His wild west town had its origins in the Colorado ghost town of Buckskin Joe.
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Kosovo's second city of Pec was reduced to a burning ghost town as its 80, 000 inhabitants fled.
However, resident Anthony Majindadi said most people were staying indoors and his area still looked like a ghost town.
They point out the "ghost town" of Kilamba in Angola, a grandiose project often labeled as a white elephant.
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In New Orleans, anxiety was high Saturday as residents fled, leaving behind a ghost town of boarded-up homes and empty streets.
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Plans for the new factory have transformed a community that during the past ten years has been becoming a ghost town.
The capital has been a ghost town for days, with residents stocking up on food and water and staying in their homes.
He told the Associated Press that Lata was "like a ghost town" and that the recent aftershocks had left people "very concerned".
And the island city of Galveston itself is almost a ghost town.
Abandoned in the early 1950s, Kolmanskop is today a ghost town.
Mines harvesting potash, a key ingredient for fertilizer, were closing, and Carlsbad seemed on the road to becoming another Chihuahuan desert ghost town.
In Mexico City, about 35, 000 public venues were shut down, transforming the bustling metropolis of 20 million people into a ghost town overnight.
But the old edge-of-the-world feel can be conjured up with a drive past the ghost town ruins of former mines scattered along the pass.
Apart from the pro-government areas predominantly inhabited by members of President Bashar al-Assad's minority Alawite sect, most of Homs looks like a ghost town.
Saturday afternoon in the centre was compared to a "ghost town" but newspaper sellers reported high sales as people tried to gather what information they could.
Today, the Hanford site is a virtual ghost town and those involved in the clean-up project say they will need every dollar of the federal stimulus funds.
Downtown, a temporary shopping center in brightly colored shipping containers has become a symbol of resilience, but most of the historic center remains a post-apocalyptic ghost town.
For an extended drive that takes in more bird habitats and a ghost town, drive east on Hwy 82 until you hit Hwy 80, the road to Tombstone.
Despite living in Hong Kong, among the most densely-populated places on the planet, the organized (and not-so organized) chaos of Mumbai makes Hong Kong seem like a ghost town.
"What was really a ghost town when I stopped by here on my reconnaissance the other day is starting to come alive, " said peacekeeping commander Peter Cosgrove on Tuesday.
Over the past month, Kaesong has been reduced to a ghost town, thanks to worsening political relations: its 53, 000 North Korean workers withdrawn, its South Korean managers barred from entering.
The twelve-hundred-acre property is now a ghost town inhabited only by steel dummies meant to scare off the ubiquitous Canada geese that squirt a carpet of green across middle Jersey.
The council also received more than 700 objections to the housing, with protestors claiming it would lead to increased traffic and destroy the character of the village, making the current centre a "ghost town".
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