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Famine: Europe [17] 1010 Famine in Nīshābūr [16] Iran: 1016: Famine throughout Europe [18] Europe: 1025: Famine: Egypt: 1031 Famine caused by a sandstorm that destroyed crops, trees and provisions [16] Iraq, Saudi Arabia: 1051: Famine forced the Toltecs to migrate from a stricken region in what is now central Mexico [19] Mexico (present day ...
Famine still occurred in Eastern Europe during the 20th century. Droughts and famines in Imperial Russia are known to have happened every 10 to 13 years, with average droughts happening every 5 to 7 years. Russia experienced eleven major famines between 1845 and 1922, one of the worst being the famine of 1891–1892. [107]
Pages in category "20th-century famines" The following 41 pages are in this category, out of 41 total. ... 1958 Tigray famine; 1972–1975 Wollo famine; 1983–1985 ...
The Little Ice Age ended in the latter half of the 19th century or in the early 20th century. ... century in Europe was a ... famine caused by extreme snowfall, which ...
The European potato failure was a food crisis caused by potato blight that struck Northern and Western Europe in the mid-1840s. The time is also known as the Hungry Forties . While the crisis produced excess mortality and suffering across the affected areas, particularly affected were the Scottish Highlands , with the Highland Potato Famine and ...
The Soviet famine of 1930–1933 was a famine ... the world in the 19th and 20th centuries in countries such as China, India, Ireland, and Russia ...
The Holodomor, [a] also known as the Ukrainian Famine, [8] [9] [b] was a human-made famine in Soviet Ukraine from 1932 to 1933 that killed millions of Ukrainians.The Holodomor was part of the wider Soviet famine of 1930–1933 which affected the major grain-producing areas of the Soviet Union.
25% to 80% of Romani people in Europe killed Holodomor: Ukraine and the northern Kuban, [239] Soviet Union: 1932 1933 3,000,000 [240] 5,000,000 [240] The Holodomor also known as the Ukrainian Famine was a man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine from 1932 to 1933 that killed millions of Ukrainians.