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  2. Plague of Justinian - Wikipedia

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    The plague of Justinian or Justinianic plague (AD 541–549) was an epidemic that afflicted the entire Mediterranean Basin, Europe, and the Near East, severely affecting the Sasanian Empire and the Byzantine Empire, especially Constantinople.

  3. Volcanic winter of 536 - Wikipedia

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    A book written by David Keys speculates that the climate changes contributed to various developments, such as the emergence of the Plague of Justinian (541–549), the decline of the Avars, the migration of Mongol tribes towards the west, the end of the Sasanian Empire, the collapse of the Gupta Empire, the rise of Islam, the expansion of ...

  4. When the skies went dark: Historians pinpoint the very 'worst ...

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    Its impacts were widespread and deadly. "Ancient eyewitnesses report that the sun stopped shining brightly for 14-18 months," McCormick said. ... Dubbed the Justinian Pandemic or the Plague of ...

  5. History of plague - Wikipedia

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    The Plague of Justinian in AD 541–542 is the first known attack on record, and marks the first firmly recorded pattern of bubonic plague. This disease is thought to have originated in China. [ 19 ] It then spread to Africa from where the huge city of Constantinople imported massive amounts of grain, mostly from Egypt, to feed its citizens.

  6. List of epidemics and pandemics - Wikipedia

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    Plague of Justinian (beginning of first plague pandemic) 541–549 Europe and West Asia: Bubonic plague: 15–100 million [5] [41] [42] 580 Dysentery Epidemic in Gaul: 580 Gaul: Dysentery or possibly smallpox 450,000 (10% of the Gaul population) [43] Roman Plague of 590 (part of first plague pandemic) 590 Rome, Byzantine Empire: Bubonic plague ...

  7. 540s - Wikipedia

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    Plague of Justinian: Bubonic plague appears suddenly in the Egyptian port of Pelusium, spreading to Alexandria and, the following year, to Constantinople. This is the beginning of a 200-year-long pandemic that will devastate Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. Emperor Justinian I recalls Belisarius from Italy to handle the situation in ...

  8. An Oregon resident was diagnosed with the plague. Here ... - AOL

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    An earlier major plague pandemic, dubbed the Justinian plague, started in Rome around 541 and continued to erupt for the next couple hundred years.

  9. Mongolian couple dies of bubonic plague after eating raw ...

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    The first recorded pandemic, otherwise known as the Justinian Plague, began in the sixth century and killed more than 25 million people across the Mediterranean basin over the next 200 years, ...