Żagań
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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 |
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| 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 |
