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The black death was probably brought in by pilgrims during the Hajj celebration.
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in the late 1320s or early 1330s, bubonic plague broke out in China's Gobi desert
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The Black Death in Cairo resulted in the death of 200,000 people, which were a third of the population of the city
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a ship carrying the plague came to Alexandria in Egypt.
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Spread by infected galleys coming from Kaffa (Crimea), the Black Death reached Genoa, as it now seems, in the late summer of 1347
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In the Northen part of Europe, it is thought that around 50 million people died as a result of the Black Death over the course of three or four years. The population was reduced from some 80 million to 30 million
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plague first entered the Mediterranean via trade ships transporting goods from the territories of the Golden Horde in the Black Sea.
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the Black Death is widely believed to have reached Europe from the Crimea as the result of a biological warfare attack.
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The second pandemic or Black Death arrived in Messina in Sicily, probably from Central Asia via Genoese ships carrying flea-laden rats in October 1347, which initiated a wave of plague infections that rapidly spread across most of Europe like a relentless wildfire.
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Yemen experienced an outbreak of the plague. This coincided with the return of King Mujahid of Yemen from imprisonment in Cairo. His party may have brought the disease with them from Egypt.
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It was in Constantinople, where Asia meets Europe, that the bubonic plague first docked
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As it spread to western Europe, the disease also entered the region from southern Russia.