Black Death
1346–1353 pandemic in Eurasia and North Africa
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Summary
Black Death is a disease outbreak[1]. It ranks in the top 0.23% of disease outbreak entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (236,054 views/month, #1 of 433).[2]
Key Facts
- Country: Georgia[3], Azerbaijan[4], Grand Principality of Moscow[5], Armenia[6]
- Instance of: pandemic[7]
- Location: Asia[8], Europe[9], North Africa[10], Caucasus[11]
- Subclass of: plague epidemic[12]
- Commons category: Black Death[13]
- Country of origin: Ukraine[14], People's Republic of China[15], India[16], Mongol Empire[17]
- Has part(s): bubonic plague[18], plague[19]
- Start time: 1346[20]
- End time: 1352[21]
- Has cause: plague[22]
- Topic's main category: Category:Black Death[23]
- Number of deaths: 75,000,001[24]
- Depicted by: St. Gregory the Great[25]
- Described by source: Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron[26], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[27], The Nuttall Encyclopædia[28], Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[29], Otto's encyclopedia[30]
- Has immediate cause: Oriental rat flea[31], Rattus rattus[32]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[33], Wikipedia:WikiProject 1000 important articles about Denmark[34]
- P14541: 1HgKgR[35]
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Outcome and Impact
Things named for Black Death include it[36], a film[37], directed by Christopher Smith[38].
Why It Matters
Black Death has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[39] It is known by 88 alternative names across languages and contexts.[40]
Entities named for it include it[36], a film[37], directed by Christopher Smith[38].