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Ghost villages mar Slovakia's economic success

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Published Sun, Jun 14, 2015 · 09:50 PM

    Harakovce, Slovakia

    SLOVAKIA has been a star performer in Central Europe with a boom in car manufacturing driving brisk economic growth, but ghost villages haunt the countryside as people leave in search of jobs.

    A white church has watched over Harakovce since villagers erected it in the century after the Black Death swept across Europe.

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