Pepin opted to spread terror, burning villas, destroying vineyards and depopulating monasteries. The region is depopulating and sparsely populated. The plague hit Marrakesh again in 1799, heavily depopulating the city. The same process of enclosure took place throughout the English Midlands, depopulating dozens of villages. More than 8,000 people perished, thus depopulating Abbeville. The area has been depopulating for decades. In 2012 a UN report ranked Donetsk among the world's fastest depopulating cities. This policy had the result of strongly depopulating the Ankay. This event also led to many residents leaving and subsequently depopulating the city. This policy varied from reinforcing defenses against pirates up to fully depopulating the coastline. Despite large urban centers, population has been depopulating for almost two decades. In 1840, twenty families migrated to Mississippi, which began the process of depopulating the town. But as the region is depopulating fast, the objects deteriorate. Kamendol is a small, depopulating village (population of 1,372 in 1991 and 1,067 in 2002).