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  2. List of famines - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Famine - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Great Famine of 1315–1317 - Wikipedia

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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.

  5. Category:Famines in Europe - Wikipedia

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  6. Famines in the Czech lands - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. Crisis of the late Middle Ages - Wikipedia

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    The already weak harvests of the north suffered, and a seven-year famine ensued. In the years 1315 to 1317, a catastrophic famine, known as the Great Famine, struck much of North West Europe. It was arguably the worst in European history, perhaps reducing the population by more than 10%. [16]

  8. Famines in Austrian Galicia - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  9. Hunger stone - Wikipedia

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    A hunger stone at the Elbe river in Děčín, Czech Republic. A hunger stone (German: Hungerstein) is a type of hydrological landmark common in Central Europe. Hunger stones serve as famine memorials and warnings and were erected in Germany and in ethnic German settlements throughout Europe in the 15th through 19th centuries.