What the records say
- When
- 638 – 639
- Kind
- Epidemic
- Coordinates
- 31.84° N, 34.99° E
- Description
- epidemic in 7th century Syria
- Cause
- Yersinia pestis
Plague of Amwas
Epidemic in 7th century Syria
The plague of Amwas, also spelled plague of Emmaus, was an ancient bubonic plague epidemic that afflicted Islamic Syria in 638–639, during the first plague pandemic and toward the end of the Muslim conquest of the region. It was likely a reemergence of the mid-6th-century Plague of Justinian.
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