Vast swathes of the county were devastated by this catastrophe, many areas becoming permanently depopulated. In 1843 there was a plague of locusts where whole villages were depopulated. By the end of March 1948 thirty villages were depopulated of their Palestinian Arab population. Therefore, far fewer villages spontaneously depopulated than previously. The loss of animals caused famine which depopulated sub-Saharan Africa, allowing thornbush to colonise. Centuries of warfare severely depopulated northern China. The struggles with Rome had left Greece depopulated and demoralised. He came back to a depopulated and devastated Rome only in October 1528. Tatar raids depopulated whole areas of Ukraine. Many others escaped or were evacuated, so the city became largely depopulated. By the end of the Bronze Age, the uplands were largely depopulated. As in Rome, persecuted fled to depopulated areas. It had been depopulated one generation earlier due to the Khmelnitsky Massacres. The kingdom was depopulated and exhausted by war, and the economy was ruined. The inner-city districts were severely depopulated.