Medieval Atlas - Spread of the Black Death July-December 1348

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Spread of the Black Death
July-December 1348

This map of the spread of the Black Death in Europe in the fourteenth century was created by your guide and is copyright © 2003 Melissa Snell. Geographical data was derived from the National Geographic Atlas of the World, sixth edition, 1990. Historical data was derived from The Black Death by Philip Ziegler, The New Penguin Atlas of Medieval History by Colin McEvedy and from the Encyclopedia Britannica.
This map was designed to offer a general understanding of the course of the plague through Europe in the second half of 1348. No guarantee is made as to the complete accuracy of this geographic rendering.

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