13th–14th centuries
Black Death massacres in Moravia
1349·Iglau
Toll
inconnu
The toll is reproduced exactly as the source states it — never rounded, never added to another. Tolls overlap from one event to the next.
the destroyed community
The community of Iglau, on the border of Bohemia and Moravia, was destroyed during the Black Death.
The city lived off the silver mines that had earned it a mining law copied throughout central Europe; Jewish moneylenders financed the operators there.
- Period :
- 13th–14th centuries
- Type :
- Massacre
- Region :
- Central and Eastern Europe
- Country :
- Tchéquie
Sources
Bondy et Dvorský, Zur Geschichte der Juden in Böhmen, Mähren und Schlesien ; Graus, Pest, Geissler, Judenmorde.