Template:1303-08-00-Syria
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| 1303, August – 1304, August | Horse epidemic (fanāʾ) in Syria in 703 AH (August 1303 - August 1304) which killed a majority of the Syrian horse population; the author who lived in Damascus during those days lost all of his horses (ten or more) to the illness; before the epidemic, horses in Syria had been abundant and easily available; due to the epidemic, horses became scarse and their price increased sixfold. |  |
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- ↑ • al-Nuwayrī, Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad: Nihāyat al-arab fī funūn al-adab, 33 vols.. Cairo 1964-1998 , vol. 32 (ed. by Fahīm Muḥammad ʿUlwī Shaltūt, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Ahwānī, and Saʿīd ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ ʿĀshūr, 1998), p. 78