Plague of Justinian

Period

AD 541–549

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The plague of Justinian or Justinianic plague was an epidemic of plague that afflicted the entire Mediterranean Basin, Europe, and the Near East, especially the Sasanian Empire and the Byzantine Empire. The plague is named for the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I who, according to his court historian Procopius, contracted the disease and recovered in 542, at the height of the epidemic which killed about a fifth of the population in the imperial capital Constantinople. The contagion arrived in Roman Egypt in 541, spread around the Mediterranean Sea until 544, and persisted in Northern Europe and the Arabian Peninsula until 549. By 543, the plague had spread to every corner of Justinian's empire.

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2. AD 66–74First Jewish–Roman War
3. c. AD 150Ptolemy's Almagest
4. AD 541–549Plague of JustinianThis page
5. AD 636Battle of the Yarmuk
6. AD 639–642Arab conquest of Egypt
7. AD 691Completion of the Dome of the Rock

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