Digitizing historical plague

We present newly digitized data on 6,929 plague outbreaks that occurred between 1347 and 1900 AD across Europe. The data base on an inventory initially published 1976. For georeferencing the information of Tele Atlas 2009 was used. The coordinates are in the reference systems ETRS89 and WGS84.

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This work was supported by:
  • WSL

Citation:

Büntgen, Ulf; Ginzler, Christian (2019). Digitizing historical plague. EnviDat. doi:10.16904/envidat.181.

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DOI 10.16904/envidat.181
Publication State Published
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  • Email: ulf.buentgenfoo(at)geog.cam.ac.uk Given Name: Ulf Family Name: Büntgen Affiliation: WSL
  • Email: christian.ginzlerfoo(at)wsl.ch ORCID: E-9544-2012 Given Name: Christian Family Name: Ginzler Affiliation: WSL
Contact Person Given Name: Christian Family Name: Ginzler Email: christian.ginzlerfoo(at)wsl.ch Affiliation: WSL ORCID: E-9544-2012
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Publication Publisher: EnviDat Year: 2019
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  • Type: Created Date: 2012-01-01
Version 1.0
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General Type Dataset
Language English
Location Europe
Content License ODbL with Database Contents License (DbCL)    [Open Data]
Last Updated October 1, 2020, 09:19 (UTC)
Created April 21, 2017, 13:41 (UTC)

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