But the town is populated by inmates of an asylum -- more for the terminally eccentric than the truly psychotic.
Now the Serbs are gone, and the town is populated almost entirely by Croats from neighboring Bosnia, who themselves fled the horrors of the Bosnian war from 1992 to 1995.
In Luiselli's story, translated by Christina MacSweeney, the town is populated by a troupe of historial re-enactors who are permanently in character and acting out events including murders and lynchings, even when there are no tourists to watch them.
The town is populated by people "who are born to lead inconsolable lives", as is everyone in the Sebald universe, given that memory is inescapable and time is irreversible".Vertigo" ends with its narrator recalling how in a dream he had remembered fragments of Samuel Pepys's account of the Great Fire of London.
This sleepy, hilly Arab town of 33,000 people in northern Israel was where a 19-year-old Jewish soldier, Eden Natan-Zada, boarded a bus in August 2005 and shot dead four people before being overpowered and lynched.The town is populated by a mix of Muslim, Christian and Druze Arabs and has an ancient Jewish history too.
Surrounded by mountains and trees, the college town is populated by professors, ex-hippies, white-collar professionals and outdoor enthusiasts.
Each region has distinct characteristics held by its inhabitants; Mushroom Kingdom is inhabited by Toads, Moleville is inhabited by moles, Monstro Town is populated by reformed monsters, Yo'ster Isle is where Yoshi and his eponymous species reside, and Nimbus Land is an area inhabited by cloud people.
While the actual town is populated by imposing spectres of its cotton mill past, Glossop is surrounded by exquisite natural beauty, thanks to being skirted by three sides of the Peak District National Park, earning it the nickname "Gateway to the Peak".
The town is populated mostly by Uighurs, a Turkic-speaking group whose members generally practice Sunni Islam.
The town is populated with faces (mainly gargoyles and grotesques) reminiscent of Warner Brothers character players, or the Ten Most Wanted List.
