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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 ...
Most of Europe (extending east to Poland and south to the Alps) was affected. [1] The famine caused many deaths over an extended number of years and marked a clear end to the period of growth and prosperity from the 11th to the 13th centuries. [2] The Great Famine started with bad weather in spring 1315.
Kilmallock: A Famine Memorial Park marks the graves of those who died in the nearby workhouse and were buried in unmarked graves. Limerick city: The 'Broken Heart' Famine memorial by Maria Pizzuti, Lower Mallow Street. The sculpture, created in 1997, is a fountain in the shape of a broken heart in memory of the forced emigration of several ...
Pages in category "Famines in Europe" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total. ... Great Famine of 1695–1697; Finnish famine of 1866–1868;
The 1891–1892 famine in the Russian Empire, sometimes called the Tsar Famine, Tsar's Famine or Black Earth Famine, began along the Volga River and spread as far as the Urals and Black Sea. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] During the famine, an epidemic also raged, in total 375,000-400,000 died from hunger and disease, mainly from diseases.
The famine was a defining moment in the history of Ireland, [3] which was part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 1801 to 1922. The famine and its effects permanently changed the island's demographic, political, and cultural landscape, producing an estimated 2 million refugees and spurring a century-long population decline.
Europe and the Mediterranean region, c. 1354. From the Apocalypse in a Biblia Pauperum illuminated at Erfurt around the time of the Great Famine.Death sits astride a lion whose long tail ends in a ball of flame (Hell).
The Finnish famine of 1866–1868 was the last famine in Finland, and (along with the subsequent Swedish famine of 1867–1869) the last major famine in Northern Europe. [1] In Finland, the famine is known as "the great hunger years", or suuret nälkävuodet. About 8.5% of the entire population died of hunger; [2] in the hardest-hit areas up to ...