In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
AEGOSPOTAMOS
Aegospotami, Aegospotamos
(noun) a river in ancient Thrace (now Turkey); in the mouth of this river the Spartan fleet under Lysander destroyed the Athenian fleet in the final battle of the Peloponnesian War (404 BC)
Aegospotami, Aegospotamos
(noun) a creek emptying into the Hellespont in present-day Turkey; at its mouth in 405 BC the Spartan fleet under Lysander defeated the Athenians and ended the Peloponnesian War
Source: WordNet® 3.1
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