30 juin 2021
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Max Weber Stiftung, « New Questions for Studying Plague in Ottoman History », Mish ma32ool, ID : 10.58079/sijq
Nükhet Varlık Nükhet Varlık Plague is an infectious disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. It is known to have affected human societies for at least the last five thousand years. During its long history, it sparked countless local epidemics and three known pandemics, which spread the bacterium to practically every corner of the world. (Today, plague exists in all the continents, except for Antarctica and Australia.) Hence plague is not an extinct disease. Quite the contrary,...