Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
SLEZSKO
Silesia, Slask, Slezsko, Schlesien
(noun) a region of central Europe rich in deposits of coal and iron ore; annexed by Prussia in 1742 but now largely in Poland
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