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Date startStart date of the disease. 1348-08 +
Date endEnd date of the disease. 1348-09 +
SeasonSeason (spring, summer, fall or winter) Autumn, Summer
Date otherOther mentioned dates.
PlacePlace(s), city or location of the disease. Gaza
RegionHistorical region(s)
CountryCurrent country
RiverMentioned river(s)
Natural eventMentioned natural event(s)
PersonMentioned persons(s)
GroupGroup(s) of people mentioned
VictimIndication of victims +
AnimalMentioned animal(s)
DiseaseMentioned disease(s) Plague, Wabāʾ
Epidemic waveAssociated epidemic wave Black Death
Social responseSocial response that happened in reaction to the disease
LanguageLanguage of the original text
KeywordFurther keyword(s) Elites, Mortality
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The Black Death's death toll in Gaza

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Then we went to Ghazza and found most of it deserted because of the numbers that had died during the plague. The qāḍī told me that only a quarter of the eighty notaries there were left and that the number of deaths had risen to eleven hundred a day.

References

  1. ^ Ibn Baṭṭūṭa - Tuḥfat al-nuẓẓār 1853-1859 
  2. ^ None 

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