After reading the helpful wikipedia article posted elsewhere in this thread, it seems like the "city" is (or became) a refugee camp. So on old maps (the paper k

After reading the helpful wikipedia article posted elsewhere in this thread, it seems like the "city" is (or became) a refugee camp. So on old maps (the paper kind digitized by UT--and probably known to Google) it was just a wayside or a small market with a few houses. Geopolitical events led 10's of thousands of people to amass and settle there in a short time. Few places change that fast, but it's not unknown: mining booms and subsequent ghost towns (in a ghost town, the satellite image makes it look larger than its population really is). This is further reminder that maps are not ever complete, nor intemporal. The human world (roads, buildings) change quite rapidly in both growth and decline.