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MOKHA (Mocha, properly Makha)

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 651 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MOKHA (Mocha, properly Makha)  , a
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town in
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Arabia on the Red Sea coast in 13° 19' N. and 43° 12' E . Formerly the chief
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port for the
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Yemen coffee export, it has much diminished in importance . The coffee grown in the mountain districts of Haraz, Uden, and Ta'iz is now shipped at Hodeda or
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Aden, though the article retains the trade name of " Mocha." The town lies in a small
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bay 40 M . N. of
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Perim at the
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southern entrance to the Red Sea . The anchorage is not good, and the port is only used by native vessels . Seen from the sea the town has rather an imposing appearance, but a near review shows that the houses though large and built of stone are mostly in ruins . The neighbouring country is an arid plain without fresh
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water, the town being supplied by an aqueduct from the
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village of Muza, situated 16 m. to the east . This is probably identical with the Muza of the Periplus, a
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great seat of the Red Sea trade in antiquity, which like Betel Fakih, Zubed and other old Tehama towns, formerly seaports, has long since been
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left by the receding sea . There is a
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Turkish kaimakam and a small garrison at Mokha, which is
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part of the
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civil
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district of Taiz in the vilayet of Yemen .

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