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I think it is older than that for several reasons:

1) The villages are insulated from many of the things that happen globally.

2) The villages are too close knit to have irrational fear of such things.

3) There are just too many of them to have sprung up so soon (about a quarter of one village that I visited).

I was chatting with a guy I met, and when I found out his last name was Ivanoff, I asked if he was related to a particular Ivanoff that I knew, and the answer...

...was "of course". In some villages, everyone is related to everyone.

Wow.

I'd love to visit such parts of the world. A place to escape the hustle and bustle of modern day society.

To some extent, Syria is like that...or WAS like that. Well, Hama city was, anyway. It's a very small city based mainly on agriculture. Whenever I'd go there, I felt like I was in a completely different planet. Everyone was oblivious to what was going on in the outside world. Instead, they cared about the simple things of, "What are we going to eat tod...