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Einar Wigen, Alp Eren Topal, and Carlo Trombino, "Last Great Plague of Istanbul, 1812: An Overture to Biopolitics in the Ottoman Empire" academic.oup.com/jhmas/articl...
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The Last Great Plague of Istanbul, 1812: An Overture to Biopolitics in the Ottoman Empire
Abstract. Starting in 1812, a plague epidemic killed a third of the population in Istanbul and a third of the population of Izmir. It lasted at least until