Ireland’s population in 1844 was 8.5 million and after the potato blight (it was not a famine, the famine part was caused by the English) the population dropped by 2 million and still hasn’t recovered to this day!
Holland 3M? Ok, what happened after that there?
TIL the Balkans can just be called European Turkey despite European Turkey being specifically East Thrace.
3 million in Algeria in 1848. Then there was the famine in the 1860s and officially 500,000 died, or more, which is at least 17% of the total. For a country like France at the beginning of the 21st century, this would represent 11 million souls. In proportion, this is almost five times the number of deaths in France during the First World War, and eleven times the number during the Second.
All of this is due to the flawed agrarian policy; a sort of Algerian Holodomor.
The Year of Revolutions.
Colin McEvedy’s 4 atlases are still a treasure, still one of the best European histories available.
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Ireland’s population in 1844 was 8.5 million and after the potato blight (it was not a famine, the famine part was caused by the English) the population dropped by 2 million and still hasn’t recovered to this day!
Holland 3M? Ok, what happened after that there?
TIL the Balkans can just be called European Turkey despite European Turkey being specifically East Thrace.
3 million in Algeria in 1848. Then there was the famine in the 1860s and officially 500,000 died, or more, which is at least 17% of the total. For a country like France at the beginning of the 21st century, this would represent 11 million souls. In proportion, this is almost five times the number of deaths in France during the First World War, and eleven times the number during the Second.
All of this is due to the flawed agrarian policy; a sort of Algerian Holodomor.
The Year of Revolutions.
Colin McEvedy’s 4 atlases are still a treasure, still one of the best European histories available.