In particular the so-called Plague of Justinian had ravaged the region and conflict remained endemic, with the Three-Chapter Controversy sparking religious opposition and administration at a standstill after the able governor of the peninsula, Narses, was recalled.

Plague was reportedly first introduced to Europe at the trading city of Caffa in the Crimea in 1347.

Plague cases continued at a modest pace until September 1666.

He had been a descendant of the Israelite tribe of Issachar ; he had been educated by his grandfathers, who had both been physicians to the court of Good King René of Provence ; he had attended Montpellier University in 1525 to gain his first degree: after returning there in 1529 he had successfully taken his medical doctorate ; he had gone on to lecture in the Medical Faculty there until his views became too unpopular ; he had supported the heliocentric view of the universe ; he had travelled to the north-east of France, where he had composed prophecies at the abbey of Orval ; in the course of his travels he had performed a variety of prodigies, including identifying a future Pope ; he had successfully cured the Plague at Aix-en-Provence and elsewhere ; he had engaged in scrying using either a magic mirror or a bowl of water ; he had been joined by his secretary Chavigny at Easter 1554 ; having published the first installment of his Propheties, he had been summoned by Queen Catherine de ' Medici to Paris in 1556 to discuss with her his prophecy at quatrain I. 35 that her husband King Henri II would be killed in a duel ; he had examined the royal children at Blois ; he had bequeathed to his son a ' lost book ' of his own prophetic paintings ; he had been buried standing up ; and he had been found, when dug up at the French Revolution, to be wearing a medallion bearing the exact date of his disinterment.

Already weakened by the Slavic invasions at the end of the 6th century, which ruined the agrarian economy of Macedonia and probably also by the Plague of Justinian in 547, the city was almost totally destroyed by an earthquake around 619, from which it never recovered.

Capek has been experimenting with nanotechnology, and the Plague is a side-effect of injections at the miners ' annual medical checkup.

All three forms are widely believed to have been responsible for a number of high-mortality epidemics throughout human history, including the Plague of Justinian in 542 and the Black Death that accounted for the death of at least one-third of the European population between 1347 and 1353.

* Plague of Justinian: Bubonic plague, spread from Egypt, kills at least 230, 000 in Constantinople ( before counting stops ) and perhaps two million or more in the rest of the Empire.

Two of his most successful paintings, Bonaparte Visiting the Plague Victims of Jaffa ( 1804 ) and Battle of Abukir ( 1806 ) focus on the Emperor, as he was by then, but include many Egyptian figures, as does the less effective Napoleon at the Battle of the Pyramids ( 1810 ).

Plague broke out in the barbarian host and their food ran short, and at the same time troops arrived from the east, sent by Marcian to the aid of Italy.

It may be that his early death, during the Great Plague of 1350, at the Siege of Gibraltar, only averted a desperate struggle with Peter, though it was a misfortune in that it removed a ruler of eminent capacity, who understood his subjects well enough not to go too far.

At this time, there was a second outbreak of the Antonine Plague, which at its height from 251 to 266, took the lives of 5, 000 daily in Rome.

Gods of the Plague ( Götter der Pest ) is a bleak gangster film with a winter setting shot mostly indoors and at night.

It contains a painting by Rubens, " Saint Roch beseeching Christ to terminate the Plague at Aalst ", and it has also a beautiful tabernacle ( dated 1605 ), which features sculptures made by Hiëronymus Duquesnoy the Elder, who's most famous creation is Manneken Pis.

The second single, " My Plague ", was nominated in 2003 for the same award at the 45th Grammy Awards.

During the Great Plague of London in 1665-1666, Earle attended to Charles II and his Queen consort Catherine of Braganza at Oxford, and there he died.

* Legitimacy of the USSR as the single saviour of peoples and the World from the Hitler's Plague ; however, in accordance to historical facts, at 1941. 06. 22 Hitler's army near USSR borders had over 4, 3 mln ; nor captured Europe countries nor USA army ( only 156000-see " Normandly landings ") could make succesfull resistance to Nazi's.

Plague doctors at the time are also thought to have used the herbs to cover-up the smell of death and decay.

He originally developed the method at Woolsthorpe Manor during the closing of Cambridge during the Great Plague of London from 1665 to 1667, but did not choose to make his findings known ( similarly, his findings which eventually became the Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica were developed at this time and hidden from the world in Newton's notes for many years ).

These include The Reivers by William Faulkner ( 1962 ), September, September by Shelby Foote ( 1977 ), The Old Forest and Other Stories by Peter Taylor ( 1985 ), the Pulitzer Prize-winning A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor ( 1986 ), The Firm ( 1991 ) and The Client ( 1993 ), both by John Grisham, Memphis Afternoons: a Memoir by James Conaway ( 1993 ), " Plague of Dreamers " by Steve Stern ( 1997 ) Cassina Gambrel Was Missing by William Watkins ( 1999 ), The Guardian by Beecher Smith ( 1999 ), " We are Billion-Year-Old Carbon " by Corey Mesler ( 2005 ), The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris, and The Architect by James Williamson ( 2007 ).

* 1999 Plague and the Moonflower ( Altus )

The Plague Makers: The Secret World of Biological Warfare, Frog Ltd, 1999.

* A Journal Of The Plague Year ( 1999, Woronzow ) ( Tom Rapp )

In January 1999, the University of Maryland devoted their fifth annual medical conference, dedicated to notorious case histories, to the Plague of Athens.

Andrew Marchant had originally planned to build a caterpillar tracked combat robot called Plague in 1999.

* Cast Down The Plague ( 1999 )

There is some controversy over the identity of the disease, but in its virulent form, after the Great Plague of Marseille in 1720 – 1722, the Great Plague of 1738 ( which hit Eastern Europe ), and the Russian plague of 1770-1772, it seems to have gradually disappeared from Europe.

At the height of a second outbreak, the Plague of Cyprian ( 251 – 266 ), which may have been the same disease, 5, 000 people a day were said to be dying in Rome.

* A plague breaks out in the city Naples ( in present-day Italy ), called the Naple's Plague.

However, he fell victim to the Plague of Cyprian ( possibly smallpox ), and died early in January 270.

During the second year of the Peloponnesian War ( 430 BC ), the city-state of Athens in ancient Greece was hit by a devastating epidemic, known as the Plague of Athens, which killed, among others, Pericles and his two elder sons.

Additionally, in 251, the Plague of Cyprian ( possibly smallpox ), broke out, causing large-scale mortality which may have seriously affected the ability of the Empire to defend itself.

Findley's first two novels, The Last of the Crazy People ( 1967 ) and The Butterfly Plague ( 1969 ), were originally published in Britain and the United States after having been rejected by Canadian publishers.

* Plague ( disease ), a specific disease caused by Yersinia pestis.

* Plague ( painting ), a painting by Arnold Böcklin

* The Plague ( Dragon Prince ), an epidemic in Melanie Rawn's fantasy novel Dragon Prince

* The Plague ( magazine ), New York University's comedy magazine

* Plague ( 1978 film ), a science-fiction genre film depicting a genetic engineering accident

* The Plague ( film ), a 2006 horror film

* " The Plague " ( Diagnosis Murder Episode ), a 1994 episode of Diagnosis Murder

* " The Plague " ( Father Ted ), a 1996 episode of Father Ted