In 1511, leaders in Mecca believed coffee stimulated radical thinking and outlawed the drink. In 1524, the leaders overturned that order, and people could drink coffee again.
TANGIERS
Tangier, Tangiers
(noun) a city of northern Morocco at the west end of the Strait of Gibraltar; “the first tangerines were shipped from Tangier to Europe in 1841”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
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