Caragea’s Plague – 1813-1814
In the centuries following the Black Death, bubonic plague reappeared spasmodically in Europe, gradually receding eastwards where it continued to ravage the Ottoman Empire. The last major European outbreak was in 1813 in Bucharest, capital of the Ottoman principality of Wallachia, in what is now Romania. In 1812 loan Caragea was appointed governor of Bucharest. …