PERMANENT JOURNEY RECORD / 29
COMPLETE ROUTE ↗following decades after 1377; exact extension date unresolved
Mediterranean port quarantine systems
quarantine DOSSIER ↗The port-city practice spread and the waiting period was extended from thirty to forty days, producing the quaranta-based name. Whether efficacy, religious symbolism, medical theory, logistics, or several forces explain forty remains unsettled.
- COORDINATES STORED
- NO
- HONEST TO PLOT
- NO
- PLACEMENT MODE
- broad
- TIME PRECISION
- unresolved
- NUMERIC TIME BOUND
- WITHHELD
- CLAIM CITATIONS
- 2
NO YEAR HAS BEEN INVENTED.
The thirty-to-forty sequence in the decades after 1377 is directly cited, but the reviewed sources do not establish one exact extension date or one point location for the distributed port system.
AUDIT THE ROUTE CLAIM.
Every source below identifies its exact stance, locator, and evidentiary contribution.
- supports
Etymologia: Quarantine
Reports spread to other cities in the following decades and extension from thirty to forty days, while presenting possible efficacy and Biblical explanations cautiously.
Etymologia, thirty-to-forty sequenceAUDIT SOURCE ↗ - supports
A Brief Biological History of Quarantine: Modern use of an ancient tool
Documents Mediterranean port-city controls, the thirty-day period, its later extension to forty or longer, and the Italian forty-day name.
Historical roots, Mediterranean port systemsAUDIT SOURCE ↗