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== [[Literature]] ==

* [[wikipedia:Numenor#History|Numenor]] in [[J. R. R. Tolkien|JRR Tolkien]]'s ''[[The Silmarillion]]''. After Sauron is taken captive by the Numenoreans, he converts them to Melkor worship and tricks them into sailing to Valinor and violating the Ban on setting foot there. As a result, the Valar call upon Eru Iluvatar and he destroys Numenor with a giant wave, sinking it beneath the sea.

* The city of Brussels, Belgium, appears this way in retrospect to Marlow in ''[[Heart of Darkness]]''.

* The Emerald City in ''[[Wicked (novel)|Wicked]]''.

* Charn from ''[[The Magicians Nephew]]'', the [[Prequel]] to ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia]]''. The civilization (and ''the entire universe in which it existed'') was destroyed by the Empress Jadis, who killed every single living organism just because she couldn't be queen. She kept herself preserved as [[Sealed Evil in a Can]] until two kids from another universe freed her from her slumber (they had been tempted by the [[Schmuck Bait]]-laden mechanism used to awaken her). Then she hitched a ride with the kids back to their universe, and eventually to Narnia, where she became known as {{spoiler|the White Witch.}}

 

* In [[The Bible]], there's, of course, Sodom and Gomorrah. The destruction of these cities is the subject of the 1852 painting by John Martin that's the image for this page.

** The world before [[The Great Flood]] qualifies.