Caffa

The tale that the Balck Death began when the Tartars catapulted bodies of plague dead in the Crimean city of Caffa is unlikley to be true: plague does not sporead that way (Caffa was probably infected the usual way, by the arrival of rodents with infected fleas).

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No one knows for sure how it arrived in Caffa, it could have arrived via an invading Mongol army or through traders or both.

A Plague Upon Your House « So Many Books 2005

Cittie, called Caffa, there lay then a Ship laden with Merchandize, being bound thence for Smyrna, of which Ship two Geneway Merchants

The Decameron 2004

A small fleet of Genoan ships fled from Caffa making stops at Pera, Constantinople, Messina (Sicily), Genoa and Marseille.

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It is generally accepted that the outbreak began in the city of Caffa on the Black Sea sometime in 1346-47.

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Le seigneur me fit venir devant lui avec un G閚ois nomm� Gentil Imp閞ial, qui 閠oit un marchand de par le Soudan, pour aller acheter des esclaves � Caffa.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

Tanais, to Asou, Caffa, or any other towne situated vpon Mare

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

Caffa, with some other townes about the Euxine or blacke Sea, that were before tributaries to the Crim Tartar.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

From Caffa, Ibn Eatuta traveled in a chariot to Azof, near which place he found the camp of the Sultan Mohammed Uzbek Khan, of whose court he gives a very circumstantial description.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 3, March, 1862 Various

Embarking at Sinope, he crossed the Black Sea to Caffa, in the Crimea, which was at that time a

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 3, March, 1862 Various