The English and the Celts - no genocide?

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Look at the other trading partners of the Byzantines, and see if the Justinian plage spread to them.
The Byzantines in Italy or North Africa? No.
The Ostrogoths? No.
The Lombards? No.
The Visigoths or other Spanish peoples? No.
The Franks? No.

Hi Vortigern,

There was a plague in Italy in 543AD and Gregory of Tours writes about a plague which was in the Rhone Valley in 543 AD too. The 542AD plague in Constantinople came from Egypt where it had struck in 541AD. This is all commensurate with the spread of one plague rather than independent outbreaks of different plagues. Moreover, the later plagues in the 6th cent and even into through the 7th and into the 8th cents are commensurate with recurrent outbreaks.


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Harry Amphlett