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Practicing History
Barbara W. Tuchman
After Baghdad, satellite outbreaks of “epidemics” (and what is now specifically called “plague”: ṭāʿūn) are reported by other chroniclers, writing in Arabic and Syriac, in Syria, Anatolia, and even Egypt.64 It is significant that as wabāʾ and ṭāʿūn were breaking out in Syria, Hülegü, by then ill himself, retreated into Azerbaijan (northern Iran) after the siege of Baghdad in March 1258.
The Four Black Deaths
Monica H. Green
Aber selbst wenn sämtliche Menschen mit Migrationshintergrund sofort aus Deutschland abgeschoben würden, gäbe es noch massenhaft sexualisierte Gewalt: Belästigungen, Missbrauch, Vergewaltigung. Ein großer Teil dieser Fälle passiert im nahen sozialen Umfeld der Betroffenen: Die Täter sind Partner, Ex-Partner, Nachbarn, Kollegen, Lehrer.
Sexualisierte Gewalt: Des Rudels Kern - Kolumne - SPIEGEL ONLINE
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