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The plague would return to Spain, of course, but less frequently as the years went by. The most infamous instance came in 1647–1651, when the disease coincided with fierce hunger, tremendous hardships, and social tumult, especially in Andalusia. Again the figure of a half-million deaths is often used. There was one final sweep in the early 1680s, and then, like most of the rest of Europe, the Iberian Peninsula was at long last left alone.1
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- Life in a Time of PestilenceThe Great Castilian Plague of 1596–1601, pp. 246 - 247Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019