Justinian Plague
In 541 and 542, during the reign of Justinian I, Constantinople lost hundreds of thousands people to plaque, carried to the city by the trade boats arrived from Egypt. This disastrous pandemic is called the Plague of Justinian which is believed to kill 25 milling people across the world.
In 541 and 542, during the reign of Justinian I, Constantinople lost hundreds of thousands people to plaque, carried to the city by the trade boats arrived from Egypt. This disastrous pandemic is called the Plague of Justinian which is believed to kill 25 milling people across the world.
The second pandemic occurred during the fourteenth century, and was called the Black Death because its main symptom was the appearance of black patches (caused by bleeding) on the skin.
No, Constantinople, now called Istanbul, is in Turkey.
There are two problems. First, Constantinople is a city. Second, it is no longer called Constantinople; it is Istanbul. As the song goes, "If you have a date in Constantinople, you will find her in Istanbul."
Constantinople lay on the European side of strait called the Bosporus.
Bezant was the currency of Constantinople in the 1500s.
If an epidemic becomes widespread, it becomes a pandemic.
Byzantium, Constantinople
it is called the Byzantine army
Epidemic. If it is world-wide, then it is called a pandemic.