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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...
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    The disease is also considered to have been responsible for the Plague of Justinian, originating in the Eastern Roman Empire in the 6th century CE, as...
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    the Plague of Justinian in 541 and continued until 750 or 767; at least fifteen or eighteen major waves of plague following the Justinianic plague have...
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    least three known major plague pandemics. The first began with the Plague of Justinian, which ravaged the Byzantine Empire and surrounding areas in 541...
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    early 19th century) are shown by individual outbreaks, such as the Plague of Justinian (first pandemic) and the Black Death (second pandemic). Infectious...
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  • first plague pandemic and toward the end of the Muslim conquest of the region. It was likely a reemergence of the mid-6th-century Plague of Justinian. Named...
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    of the population of Eurasia in the next four years. It followed the first plague pandemic that began in the 6th century with the Plague of Justinian...
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    Black Death (redirect from Black Plague)
    ancestor of later plague epidemics—including the third plague pandemic—and the descendant of the strain responsible for the Plague of Justinian. In addition...
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  • 20% of London's population in 1665–1666 Plague of Athens, a devastating epidemic which hit Athens in ancient Greece in 430 BCE Plague of Justinian, a pandemic...
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    Sub-Roman Britain (category History of England by period)
    subsequently, by plague and smallpox (around 600, the smallpox spread from India into Europe). It is known that the Plague of Justinian entered the Mediterranean...
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  • which has lain dormant within certain noble bloodlines since the Plague of Justinian. Beatrice and Laurentius had been trying to find an elixir that would...
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    eruptions caused crop failures, and were accompanied by the Plague of Justinian, famine, and millions of deaths and initiated the Late Antique Little Ice Age...
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    Justinian was struck by the plague in the early 540s but recovered. Theodora died in 548 at a relatively young age, possibly of cancer; Justinian outlived...
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    The Antonine Plague of AD 165 to 180, also known as the Plague of Galen (after Galen, the Greek physician who described it), was a prolonged and destructive...
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  • pandemics were: the first plague pandemic from 541 to ~750, spreading from Egypt to the Mediterranean (starting with the Plague of Justinian) and northwestern...
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    Flea (category Insect vectors of human pathogens)
    outbreaks included the Plague of Justinian, about 540, and the Black Death, about 1350, each of which killed a sizeable fraction of the world's people. Fleas...
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    The Plague of Cyprian was a pandemic which afflicted the Roman Empire from about AD 249 to 262, or 251/2 to 270. The plague is thought to have caused...
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    but endured some incidental declines due to events including the Plague of Justinian, the Mongol invasions, and the Black Death. Post-classical history...
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    The Italian plague of 1629–1631, also referred to as the Great Plague of Milan, was part of the second plague pandemic that began with the Black Death...
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    The Plague of Athens (Ancient Greek: Λοιμὸς τῶν Ἀθηνῶν, Loimos tôn Athênôn) was an epidemic that devastated the city-state of Athens in ancient Greece...
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    the great plague of Justinian, which began in the 540s and may have killed more than 100 million Europeans before spreading to other parts of the world...
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    Late antiquity (category History of Asia by period)
    Papacy. Justinian constructed the Hagia Sophia, a great example of Byzantine architecture, and the first outbreak of the centuries-long first plague pandemic...
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    facilitated by the substantial decrease of the Southeastern European population during the Plague of Justinian. Another reason was the Late Antique Little...
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    The Great Plague of London, lasting from 1665 to 1666, was the last major epidemic of the bubonic plague to occur in England. It happened within the centuries-long...
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    Battle of Tolbiac, Clovis I converts to Chalcedonianism 507: Battle of Vouillé 527–565: Justinian I 535–552: Gothic Wars 541–542: Plague of Justinian in Constantinople...
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    social fabric of Constantinople was also damaged by the onset of the Plague of Justinian between 541 and 542 AD. It killed perhaps 40% of the city's inhabitants...
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    The Hittite Plague or Hand of Nergal was an epidemic, possibly of tularemia, which occurred in the mid-to-late 14th century BC. The Hittite Empire stretched...
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    encountered in the winter months of 1916 and 1917. These patients, despite their various previous diagnoses, had a similar pattern of symptoms. This led him to...
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    War between the Byzantine Empire during the reign of Emperor Justinian I and the Ostrogothic Kingdom of Italy took place from 535 to 554 in the Italian...
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  • thought to correspond to the Plague of Justinian A common misspelling of Antigua, almost always referring to the nation of Antigua and Barbuda. Antique...
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