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Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Inside an abandoned leper colony: Haunting pictures show where disease sufferers were locked up on Greek island

The colony on Chios, called Lovokomeio, opened in 1378 as the first leper colony in Greece and one of the first in all of Europe.

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