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Kaffa: see Feodosiya Feodosiya (fā'ədô`sēə), city (1990 est. pop. 85,000), S Ukraine, on the Crimean peninsula. ..... Click the link for more information. , Ukraine. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Credited with discovering coffee is an Arab named Khalid, the newspaper said, who was tending his goats in the Kaffa region of southern Ethiopia when he noticed his animals became livelier after eating a certain berry. originated in Ethiopia, probably taking its name from the province of Kaffa, where coffee grows wild. The plague was brought to Italy in 1847 in the ships of Genovese merchants fleeing from the Black Sea trading port of Kaffa, where besieging Tartar armies, unable to breach the formidable defenses of that city, had catapulted the plague-ridden corpses of certain of their comrades over the walls. |
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