Further to my last post re. Osgilliath:
The city was partly destroyed and its Palantir lost during the KIn-strife in Third Age 1437. The Royal Court presided over a half-empty city until TA 1640 when the King moved his throne to Minas Arnor after a plague further reduced the population.
Osgiliath slowly fell into ruins, hastened by the fall of Minas Ithil to the Nazgul in TA 2002 when Minas Ithil was renamed Minas Morgul and Minas Arnor renamed Minas Tirith.
It was finaly abandoned in TA 2475 when the eastern half of the city fell to The Ememy, five hundred years before the War of The Ring.
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