Żagań

In Żagań, a total of 2 epidemic events are known so far. It is a a city and commune in the Lubusz Voivodeship in Poland. The coordinates are 51° 37' 0.00" N, 15° 19' 0.00" E.

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Disease	DateStart date of the disease.	SummarySummary of the disease event	OriginalOriginal text	TranslationEnglish translation of the text	ReferenceReference(s) to literature	Reference translationReference(s) to the translation
1338-00-00-Silesia	1338 JL	Around the year 1338 there were a great number of locusts, which were followed by a pestilence and starvation.	Item, circa annum domini MCCCXXXVIII venerunt locuste maxime multitudinis [...]. Subsequentibus vero nostris temporibus aliquando pestilencia, aliquando fames fuerut.	Around the year of the Lord 1338 there arrived locusts of the greatest numbers [...]. they were followed in our times sometimes by a pestilence, sometimes by starvation.	Ludolf of Sagan, Catalogus abbtum Saganensium, in: Script. rer. Siles., vol 10, ed. Markgraf (1877), p. 173-528, 167.	Translation by Christian Oertel
1395-00-00-Silesia	1395 JL	The year 1395 saw the first occurence of the plague in the monastery of Żagań.	Hujus anno primo pestilencia inter fratres alios magistrum Petrum de Legenicz, tunc prepositum hospitalis, columpnam religionis extinxit.	In this year the first pestilence among the brother extinguished, among others, Master Petrus de Legenicz, the provost of the hospital, a column of religion.	Ludolf of Sagan, Catalogus abbtum Saganensium, in: Script. rer. Siles., vol 10, ed. Markgraf (1877), p. 173-528, 232.	Translation by Christian Oertel

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