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Plague strikes the besieging army at Kaffa

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Plague breaks out among Golden Horde forces besieging the Genoese port of Kaffa in the Crimea. Gabriele de' Mussi, writing shortly afterwards and not present, records that the besiegers catapulted corpses over the walls, and that fleeing Genoese ships carried the disease west.

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  1. Story
  2. Plague breaks out among Golden Horde forces besieging the Genoese port of Kaffa in the Crimea. Gabriele de' Mussi, writing shortly afterwards and not present, records that the besiegers catapulted corpses over the walls, and that fleeing Genoese ships carried the disease west.
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  4. Mongol Empire
  5. Plague strikes the besieging army at Kaffa
  6. Connections
  7. Mongol Empire
  8. Merv
  9. Marco Polo
  10. Temujin is proclaimed Chinggis Khan
  11. Mongol destruction of Merv
  12. Marco Polo's journey to Asia and back
  13. Plague strikes the besieging army at Kaffa
  14. Plague reaches the Mediterranean
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  16. The best-known account of plague at the siege of Kaffa in the Crimea and its carriage west by Genoese shipping. De' Mussi was not present and wrote at second hand shortly afterwards; the account is near-contemporary testimony rather than eyewitness record, and the catapulted-corpses detail in particular is debated as a transmission mechanism.
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