The Holy Mount Athos, Prohibited Locations Around The World

The Holy Mount Athos is an Orthodox monastic republic, which is located on the same eastern finger of the Halkidiki peninsula in the east of Greece.

It has an autonomous state under Greek sovereignty. The Republic is one of about 2,200 monastic inhabitants and covers 336 square kilometers.

On the peninsula there are 20 large monasteries, which is a UNESCO world heritage. Near the monasteries on Mount Athos there are also the so-called sketes. These are rural settlements where the buildings are laid around a monastic central building.

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Prohibited Locations Around The World, Ni'ihau, Hawaii

The Hawaiian Islands are a popular vacation destination Of the eight major islands of the archipelago, but only seven of the Islands  are allowed to be visited. Ni'ihau - the 'Forbidden Island' - is closed to the public. This has a particular reason ....

The islands are located in privately owned, tourists are not allowed to enter the island. this is because the approximately 160 remaining Polynesians,who live in it, can continue to care for their original culture.

On Ni'ihau, there is no electricity, no police, no doctors - and no money. The residents pay each other with shells.

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Prohibited Locations Around The World, Quneitra, Syria

Quneitra is a town on the heights Golan in southwestern Syria. In the wake of the Six-Day War between Israel and Arab states. The city was on 10 June 1967 occupied by the Israelis.

In June 1974, after the Yom Kippur War, the Israeli army withdrew from Quneitra.The city fell for the Syrians as a pile of rubble in their hands.

Before 1967, almost 30,000 people lived here. Today became Quneitra a mine ghost town that is not rebuilt by the Syrians.

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Prohibited Locations Around The World, Ağdam - Ruined City

The Azerbaijani Agdam was  founded  in the middle of the 18th Century.  In 1968 the city was have about 18,000 inhabitants, whose number grew in 1989 to almost 30,000.

The great misfortune for Agdam began in part of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict, a dispute between the states of Armenia and Azerbaijan over the Nagorno-Karabakh in the Caucasus.

In July 1993, the city was occupied by Armenian troops. Since then Agdam was part of the internationally unrecognized Republic of Nagorno Karabakh.

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