Society / Famine

874AD

Event #4936: Famine in Constantiople

Stable URL: http://cof.quantumfuturegroup.org/events/4936

Geographical sites:

  • Constantinople (click here to focus in map) (see also GeoNames #745044)
    Geonames_icon İstanbul seat of a first-order administrative division Geocontext: Europe/Istanbul

Citations:

Text #7797

Borisenkov. Extreme weather events in Russian Chronicles of the XI-XVII Centuries (Борисенков Е.П. - Экстремальные природные явления в русских летописях XI - XVII вв.)
[p. 115]

PDF URL: http://www.twirpx.com/file/1048031/

During the siege of Constantinople by Askold Russian ships were caught by a violent storm. Storm broke about two thousand ships. Famine year.1

  1. Византия, Черное море: Во время осады Аскольдом Царьграда русские корабли были застигнуты жестоким штормом. Штормом разбило около двух тысяч кораблей. Голодный год («глад великий») ПВЛ, с. 2 1 5, ПСРЛ, т. 9, с. 1 0 ↩

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