In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
BYZANTIUM
Byzantium
(noun) an ancient city on the Bosporus founded by the Greeks; site of modern Istanbul; in 330 Constantine I rebuilt the city and called it Constantinople and made it his capital
Source: WordNet® 3.1
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RIGHT
(noun) anything in accord with principles of justice; “he feels he is in the right”; “the rightfulness of his claim”
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