Coffee must have been the secret weapon of Greek, Slav, and Albanian mercenary units, the stratioti, that fought together throughout Europe in the 15th to 18th centuries. The stratioti must have ...

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the collapse of the Ottoman Empire as the cradle of the modern Middle East; • the formation of the state system in the Middle East; • the rise of political Zionism, • the birth of the Arab-Israeli ...