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* [[wikipedia:Ys|The sunken city of Ys]] in French folklore and [[Celtic Mythology]]. It was built below sea level and surrounded by a dike with a gate that was opened to allow access for ships during low tide. Ys was destroyed by being sunk under the waves as punishment for the [[Everything's Better with Princesses|Princess]] [[Royal Brat|Dahut's]] and the other inhabitants' debauchery. (Although, in one version of the legend, Ys sank as a result of the Princess Dahut [[Alcohol-Induced Idiocy|getting drunk]] [[What an Idiot!|and opening the gate at high tide during a storm]].)

* The medieval city of [[wikipedia:Vineta|Vineta]] was, according to legend, a rich and powerful port on the Baltic Sea located near the present-day border of Germany and Poland. The sinfulness of its inhabitants led [[Bolt of Divine Retribution|God to destroy it with thunderbolts]] and sink it underneath a storm tide.

** More broadly, the Nephite and Jaredite nations near the end of them. They did pretty deplorable things at the end.