Mysteries.of.the.Abandoned.S09E20.1080p.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.H.264-BTN_track3_[und] Subtitles

At 00:00:05,600, Character said: [narrator]
Vestiges of opulence
in an active no-man's-land.

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At 00:00:10,000, Character said: This ill-fated coup
sealed the fate
of this summer paradise.

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At 00:00:17,600, Character said: [narrator]
Two moldering bastions
with a hopeful tale.

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At 00:00:22,166, Character said: [Michele Mitchell]
These structures
saw slavery at its worst.

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At 00:00:25,266, Character said: But, ended up becoming
constructions of freedom.

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At 00:00:31,567, Character said: [narrator] And, a frozen shell
built on a burning passion.

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At 00:00:36,166, Character said: The whole story had began
with one man's pursuit
of love.

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At 00:00:43,767, Character said: [narrator] Decaying relics,

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At 00:00:46,767, Character said: ruins of lost worlds,

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At 00:00:50,500, Character said: sites haunted by the past,

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At 00:00:54,200, Character said: their secrets
waiting to be revealed.

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At 00:01:08,066, Character said: In Eastern Cyprus
is an entire neighborhood

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At 00:01:11,467, Character said: closed to the world
for decades.

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At 00:01:19,266, Character said: [Lynette Nusbacher]
Famagusta is a lovely city.

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At 00:01:24,467, Character said: But, as you move along
the coast, suddenly,
you get wire,

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At 00:01:29,567, Character said: you get signs telling you
not to go any further,

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At 00:01:30,000, Character said: you get signs telling you
not to go any further,

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At 00:01:33,900, Character said: you feel like
you're in a warzone.

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At 00:01:37,400, Character said: [narrator] Inside
this forbidden zone is a mass
of crumbling concrete.

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At 00:01:44,166, Character said: Several high-rise buildings
face the sea

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At 00:01:47,000, Character said: with these spectacular
seafront views,

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At 00:01:50,367, Character said: they must have been hotels.

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At 00:01:53,367, Character said: [Geoff Wawro]
Behind them, you have these
extensive neighborhoods

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At 00:01:55,667, Character said: of beautiful
middle-class homes
all empty.

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At 00:02:00,166, Character said: [Sascha Auerbach]
Weeds now overrun
the deserted streets,

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At 00:02:03,367, Character said: nature is starting to reclaim
this town.

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At 00:02:07,967, Character said: [narrator] There are
no obvious signs
of war damage.

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At 00:02:11,567, Character said: [narrator] So, what happened
to this once jewel
of the Mediterranean?

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At 00:02:16,467, Character said: [Auerbach] One time,
it's streets were packed
with tourists.

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At 00:02:20,867, Character said: But, one summer,
they were gone and they never
came back again.

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At 00:02:33,500, Character said: [Ata Atun]
Two checkpoints
are still existing.

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At 00:02:35,767, Character said: And, without accessing
from the checkpoints
you cannot enter to Varosha.

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At 00:02:42,567, Character said: [narrator]
Beyond the barricades

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At 00:02:44,266, Character said: lies a warren
of deserted streets
and derelict buildings.

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At 00:02:50,767, Character said: Professor Ata Atun imagined
a very different future

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At 00:02:54,867, Character said: when he was
a young civil engineer
in the early 1970s.

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At 00:03:00,100, Character said: I had to work in this town,

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At 00:03:01,567, Character said: so there are lots of buildings
which I designed

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At 00:03:04,467, Character said: with my brother
who was an architect.

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At 00:03:08,467, Character said: When I come here
I always look at it
with pleasure

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At 00:03:13,367, Character said: with the memories of the past.

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At 00:03:17,400, Character said: [narrator] These are
the petrified relics
of Varosha.

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At 00:03:21,967, Character said: The closed off
southern quarter
of Famagusta City.

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At 00:03:28,867, Character said: [Wawro] Varosha was just
kind of a sleepy, back water,
fishing village.

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At 00:03:30,000, Character said: [Wawro] Varosha was just
kind of a sleepy, back water,
fishing village.

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At 00:03:33,467, Character said: And, because of
the tourist potential
of that stretch of coastline

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At 00:03:37,467, Character said: in the 1960s
it starts getting developed
as a beach resort.

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At 00:03:42,300, Character said: With its modern investment,
with its massive
first-rate hotels,

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At 00:03:49,066, Character said: it started to look
a lot like Miami Beach.

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At 00:03:53,767, Character said: This was where all
the A-listers went,
people like Brigitte Bardot,

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At 00:03:57,166, Character said: Richard Burton,
Elizabeth Taylor.

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At 00:04:01,867, Character said: [narrator] A shopping district
lined with designer boutiques

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At 00:04:05,266, Character said: catered to the rich
and famous.

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At 00:04:09,300, Character said: [Atun] There are
lots of shops,
very nice places

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At 00:04:12,100, Character said: which were selling products
of the well-known companies.

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At 00:04:17,100, Character said: So, Varosha became,
not just a resort,

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At 00:04:22,667, Character said: Varosha became the resort.

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At 00:04:27,200, Character said: [narrator] Yet, beneath
the glamour here,

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At 00:04:29,667, Character said: mistrust had been festering
across the island
for centuries.

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At 00:04:30,000, Character said: mistrust had been festering
across the island
for centuries.

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At 00:04:36,900, Character said: [Nusbacher] In the middle-ages
Cyprus was a Greek island.

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At 00:04:42,667, Character said: But, a sizable
ethnically Turkish population
comes to Cyprus as well.

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At 00:04:50,066, Character said: And, there is off-again,
on-again tension

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At 00:04:53,467, Character said: between the Turkish and Greek
communities in Cyprus.

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At 00:05:00,567, Character said: [narrator] Then, came a moment

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At 00:05:02,133, Character said: that threatened
to bring these tensions
to a brutal climax.

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At 00:05:08,467, Character said: For a long time,
Cyprus was effectively
a British colony.

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At 00:05:14,700, Character said: And, in 1960, Cyprus
gets its independence.

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At 00:05:19,467, Character said: And there is hope,
and there is promise,
and there is joy.

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At 00:05:24,667, Character said: And then, it all goes
a little bit dark.

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At 00:05:32,300, Character said: [narrator] A political
partnership between
the ethnic Greek

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At 00:05:35,166, Character said: and Turkish communities
was established.

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At 00:05:41,467, Character said: But, the islands first
president, Greek Cypriot
Archbishop Makarios

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At 00:05:46,467, Character said: wanted Cyprus
unified with Greece.

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At 00:05:51,266, Character said: In 1963, he proposed
controversial changes
in the constitution

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At 00:05:56,667, Character said: that would bring an end
to the power sharing
arrangements.

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At 00:06:03,667, Character said: The Turkish Cypriots,
naturally, opposed
unification with Greece.

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At 00:06:08,266, Character said: [narrator] A fuse
had been lit.

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At 00:06:10,900, Character said: And, both sides exploded.

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At 00:06:14,667, Character said: This ignited a killing spree
in the capital of Nicosia.

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At 00:06:26,667, Character said: [narrator] Armed factions
roamed the streets.

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At 00:06:29,066, Character said: And, homes and businesses
were looted and set ablaze.

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At 00:06:30,000, Character said: And, homes and businesses
were looted and set ablaze.

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At 00:06:35,367, Character said: In 1964 The United Nations
stepped in

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At 00:06:38,967, Character said: and separated
the capitals Greek
and Turkish communities.

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At 00:06:43,600, Character said: In the aftermath
of this bloody clash,

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At 00:06:46,000, Character said: a buffer zone was created
known as the Green Line.

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At 00:06:48,867, Character said: And, this was patrolled
by UN troops.

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At 00:06:53,500, Character said: [narrator] Like Berlin,
just a few years earlier,
Nicosia became a divided city.

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At 00:07:01,767, Character said: Varosha survived the conflict,
but the stage had been set
for its downfall.

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At 00:07:08,367, Character said: [Auerbach] The buffer zone
created the illusion of peace
on the surface.

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At 00:07:12,667, Character said: But, in July 1974,
when Varosha

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At 00:07:15,367, Character said: would have been
packed with tourists
tensions came to a head.

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At 00:07:22,567, Character said: [narrator] Frustrated
that Cyprus was still divided

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At 00:07:25,467, Character said: the government in Athens
decided to act.

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At 00:07:30,567, Character said: Greek officers lead troops
to the presidential palace
and burned it to the ground.

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At 00:07:36,567, Character said: Their target,
President Makarios,

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At 00:07:39,367, Character said: narrowly escaped
with his life.

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At 00:07:43,567, Character said: [Nusbacher] The people
who are taking over

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At 00:07:46,367, Character said: the Greek dominated government

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At 00:07:49,567, Character said: are openly saying,
that they're going
to seek unification

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At 00:07:54,166, Character said: with the military government
in Greece.

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At 00:07:59,800, Character said: [Auerbach] Five days later,
the Turkish government

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At 00:08:00,000, Character said: [Auerbach] Five days later,
the Turkish government

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At 00:08:01,967, Character said: responded by initiating
Operation Attila,

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At 00:08:04,767, Character said: sending in thousands
of troops to protect
Turkish Cypriot citizens.

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At 00:08:10,367, Character said: The Turkish armed forces
airdrop a thousand

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At 00:08:14,567, Character said: airborne light infantry
into northern Cyprus....