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. …
Mid 14th century Europe was debilitated by years of war, the cruel winters of the ‘Little Ice Age’, poor harvests, and diseases which struck man and beast. In 1347 the Black Death arrived in Sicily via trade routes with the East and by 1348 had spread to England. The ‘Great Pestilence’ or ‘Great Mortality’, as …
Although there is plenty of evidence that bubonic plague has been around for as long as mankind, the plague of Justinian is the first properly documented bubonic plague pandemic. The Greek historian Procopius wrote a history of the Byzantine Roman Empire during the reign of Justinian, in which he recounts the devastation wreaked by the …