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The first known pandemic was the Plague of Justinian, which took place in the Byzantine Empire in A.D. 542, it struck its capital Constantinople, part of the Sassanian Empire in the Middle East and several cities across the Eastern Mediterranean Sea. Modern scholars think it started in Central Asia.

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