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In early 1349, the plague reached South Egypt, where the population in the region of Asuyt changed from 6,000 taxpayers before the plague to 116 after. [1] It is noted however, that a lot of the peasantry of the South Egypt fled in to the cities during the Black Death, and refused to return to work on the estates of the landlords when it was ...
The Black Death killed about 40% of Egypt's population. [145] In Cairo, with a population numbering as many as 600,000, and possibly the largest city west of China, between one third and 40% of the inhabitants died within eight months. [115] By the 18th century, the population of Cairo was halved from its numbers in 1347. [115]
The Black Death: The Great Mortality of 1348–1350: A Brief History with Documents (2005) excerpt and text search, with primary sources; Benedictow, Ole J. The Black Death 1346–1353: The Complete History (2012) excerpt and text search; Borsch, Stuart J. The Black Death in Egypt and England: A Comparative Study (U of Texas Press, 2005) online
The mid-14th-century Black Death killed about 40% of the population of Egypt. [23] ... Ayyubid Sultanate of Egypt (in pink) at the death of Saladin in 1193.
The Black Death, one of history’s deadliest pandemics, ravaged Europe from 1347 to 1351. Caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis and primarily spread by fleas on rats, the plague also swept ...
The Black Death was one of the most devastating pandemics in human history, ... By autumn 1347, the plague reached Alexandria in Egypt, ...
Egyptian archaeologists on Wednesday pried open a mysterious, 30-ton black sarcophagus, where they found three skeletons.
The Black Death ravaged Europe for three years before it continued on into Russia, where the disease hit somewhere once every five or six years from 1350 to 1490. [39] Plague epidemics ravaged London in 1563, 1593, 1603, 1625, 1636, and 1665, [40] reducing its population by 10 to 30% during those years. [41]