Plague reaches the Mediterranean
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Plague arrives at Constantinople during 1347 and reaches Messina in Sicily in October, then Genoa and Marseille before the year ends, spreading across Europe through 1348 to 1351. It travelled the same corridors, and by the same shipping, that carried the trade. Ancient DNA published in 2022 places the source population of the Black Death lineage in the Tian Shan, in burials of 1338 and 1339.
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- Mongol Empireconcerns
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