Environmental Data: Digitizing historical plague

Keywords:
BLACK DEATH
BUBONIC PLAGUE
HISTORICAL PLAGUE
PALAEO-EPIDEMIOLOGY
PLAGUE INVENTORY
PLAGUE MAPPING
PLAGUE OUTBREAKS
YERSINIA PESTIS
Keywords:
BLACK DEATH
BUBONIC PLAGUE
HISTORICAL PLAGUE
PALAEO-EPIDEMIOLOGY
PLAGUE INVENTORY
PLAGUE MAPPING
PLAGUE OUTBREAKS
YERSINIA PESTIS

Description

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 pub...

Citation

Büntgen, U., Ginzler, C. (2019). Digitizing historical plague. EnviDat. https://www.doi.org/10.16904/envidat.181.

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  • Historical_plague_outbreaks

    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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