Digitizing historical plague

We present newly digitized data on 6,929 plague outbreaks that occurred between 1347 and 1900 AD across Europe. The data base on an inventory initially published 1976. For georeferencing the information of Tele Atlas 2009 was used. The coordinates are in the reference systems ETRS89 and WGS84.

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Identifier 2a2b8c5f-c60c-4902-871b-564869addd07@envidat
Title for URL of the dataset digitizing-historical-plague
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Issued date April 21, 2017
Modification date October 1, 2020
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URL https://www.envidat.ch/#/metadata/digitizing-historical-plague
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