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In a city with a population of about 450,000 while under German occupation, there was a famine starting in the winter of 1941–42 that lasted until the end of September 1942. The local administration recorded 19,284 deaths between the second half of December 1941 and the second half of September 1942, thereof 11,918 (59.6%) from hunger. [ 135 ]
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 ...
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]
Category: 20th century in Europe by city. 6 languages. ... 20th century in Dublin (city) (11 C, 2 P) E. 20th century in Eindhoven (1 C, 11 P) G. 20th century in Ghent ...
In the 17th century, Russia experienced the famine of 1601–1603, as a proportion of the population, believed to be its worst as it may have killed 2 million people (1/3 of the population). Other major famines include the Great Famine of 1315–17, which affected much of Europe including part of Russia [2] [3] as well as the Baltic states. [4]
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 ...
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.
The period from the early 14th century up until – and sometimes including – the 16th century is rather seen as characterized by other trends: demographic and economic decline followed by recovery, the end of Western religious unity and the subsequent emergence of the nation-state, and the expansion of European influence onto the rest of the ...