The story of coffeeOrigins of coffee The history of coffee began in Ethiopia, where the Coffea arabica grew freely like Bush. Initially the fruit was used aytoysios from local populations, who either chewed or ground into small pellets.The name of the coffee comes from the Arabic word qahhwa (Kawa), which means "that which prevents sleep", which is a part of the original Arab name of Brown, qahwat al-būnn, wine of the bean, which refers to the fact that coffee is used as a substitute for wine, because the Koran prohibits alcohol. When coffee was introduced in Europe was known as "Arabian wine". Another version returns the name of the cafe in the Kingdom of Kaffa, the region of Ethiopia where coffee began to be used.It is worth noting that the origin of the coffee and the discovery of its properties gave food and in several myths. The most important is the one who performs the discovery of the properties of coffee in a land of gidobosko, the Kalnti, who observed that his animals became more active when they ate the fruit of the coffee plant (legend of dancing goats) and he says that coffee was given to Muhammad by the Archangel Gabriel to give strength and durability.Coffee in the Arab world From Africa coffee spent in Yemen, where he brought slaves from Sudan. The first mention of the Muslims is approximately 900 a.d. in the writings of the Persian physician Rhazes and calculated that the manufacture of coffee as we know it today (with seed roasting and boiling) started g'yrw in the 14th century. The first detailed report about the origin and use of coffee is a work of Abd al-Qadir Al-TZaziri from the 1587, stating that the first who introduced the use of coffee was the Mufti of Aden in the 14th century.From the Yemen coffee spread farther north, in Mecca and Medina, and from there to the major cities of North Africa. Property of brown to fight the sleepiness made him popular among Sufis, while as the Koran forbids alcohol use coffee was considered a good substitute, and from a social point of view the use was identical to that of alcohol in the West: the kafepoteia were place, discussions, entertainment or gambling. The first kafepoteia opened in Mocha, which was the main port from which the movement of coffee. Several times because of their character the kafepoteia became place of political debate and activity, and it made several attempts to shut it down, but without success due to the popularity of the beverage. The same fate befell the efforts to prohibit generally coffee as stimulant substance, both hardline imams in Mecca and Cairo, as well as by the Ethiopian Church later.Coffee in EuropeCoffee-ready product, as Arabs strictly prohibited the export of seed-spent in Europe from Venice, which had strong trade relations with the Arab world, in the late 16th century. Was originally from the Venetians merchants to rich, like exotic species. His popularity grew after Pope Clement Viii, despite the advice of his surroundings to excommunicate factions coffee like Islamic threat to Christianity, tasted at 1600 Brown, found him exquisite and "baptized" Christian beverage. The first kafepoteio opened in Italy in 1645.The Dutch were the first who managed to get coffee seeds and cultivate their colonies originally Indonesia. At the same time about the coffee plant passed and in India, where carrying seeds smuggled the Baba Mpoyntan, returning from Mecca.The popularity of coffee grew rapidly in Europe; in England there were 3000 kafepoteia in 1675. The coffee arrived in France in 1657, and in 1669 the gift he brought to Paris the Envoy of Sultan Mohamed IV was a great quantity of coffee.One of the spoils of Poles, Austrians and Germans after their victory in Vienna in 1683 was the many sandbags with Brown left behind by the defeated Ottoman army. The Frantsizek Koyltzitski, a Polish officer in which slaves the sacks of coffee as a gift for his bravery, opened a kafepoteio, while prwtotypise and by adding sugar and milk in the coffee. So this victory was also the occasion for the diffusion of coffee in Austria, Poland and Germany.Coffee in AmericaCoffee brought to the American continent through the French colony in Martinique, French Guinea and elsewhere. The first plants brought by Gabriel de Klioy in Martinique in 1714. From there he passed to French Guinea. In 1727, the Francisco Palcheta was sent by the King of Brazil in Guinea, in order to bring coffee seeds to be grown in the country. Since the posting of the seeds proved to be difficult, the Palcheta solved the problem and fascinates the French Governor's wife, which gave him seed and spawn coffee, so the plant spent in Brazil, which is currently the country with the largest coffee producer in the world.Around the same time coffee was cultivated in Jamaica, 1740 in Mexico, 1784 in Venezuela and at the end of the century in Colombia. In 1893, he passed coffee from Brazil in Kenya and Tanzania, thus completing the transcontinental voyage that started a little farther north, in Ethiopia, 900 years ago.According to another version, the Dutch, among the first merchants and planters of coffee, reported total
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