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Europe: 1150–1151: Famine: Europe: 1161–1162: Famine: Aquitaine: 1181: Yōwa famine [25] Japan: 42,300: 1196–1197: Famine: Europe: 1199–1202: Famine due to the low water level of the Nile impacting food prices [18] Egypt: 100,000: 1224–1226: Famine: Europe: 1230: Famine in the Novgorod Republic [citation needed] Russia: 1230–1231 ...
The Codes listed three stages of food insecurity: near-scarcity, scarcity and famine, and were highly influential in the creation of subsequent famine warning or measurement systems. The early warning system developed to monitor the region inhabited by the Turkana people in northern Kenya also has three levels, but links each stage to a pre ...
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The famine caused many deaths over an extended number of years and marked a clear end to the period of growth and prosperity from the 11th to the 13th centuries. [2] The Great Famine started with bad weather in spring 1315. Crop failures lasted through 1316 until the summer harvest in 1317, and Europe did not fully recover until 1322.
The first recorded famine in the Czech lands occurred from 1272 to 1282 and was caused by warfare and weather, which decreased the volume of crops harvested in the region. This first instance of famine caught the inhabitants off guard and caused 600,000 deaths, mostly through endemic plagues, although there were some occurrences of cannibalism ...
Famines in Austrian Galicia were a common occurrence, particularly in the mid to late 19th century, as Galicia became heavily overpopulated. Triggered primarily by natural disasters such as floods and blights, famines, compounded by overpopulation, led to starvation, widespread malnutrition, epidemics, poverty, an average of 50,000 deaths a year, and from the 1870s to the beginning of World ...
In his "Introduction to the History of the Middle Ages in Europe", Mitre Fernández wrote in 2004: "To talk about a general crisis of the late Middle Ages is already a commonplace in the study of medieval history." [3] Heribert Müller, in his 2012 book on the religious crisis of the late Middle Ages, discussed whether the term itself was in ...
The Famine of 1867–1869 was the last famine in Sweden, and (together with the Finnish famine of 1866–1868) the last major famine in Northern Europe. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In Sweden, the year 1867 was known as Storsvagåret ( ' Year of Great Weakness ' ) and, in Tornedalen , as Lavåret ( ' Lichen Year ' ) because of the bark bread made of lichen. [ 3 ]