The merchant houses of Mocha : trade and architecture in an Indian Ocean port /
"Gaining prominence as a seaport under the Ottomans in the mid-1500s, the city of Mocha on the Red Sea coast of Yemen pulsed with maritime commerce. Its very name became synonymous with Yemen's most important revenue-producing crop, coffee. After the imams of the Qasimi dynasty ousted the...
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| Format: | eBog Electronisk |
| Sprog: | English |
| Language notes: | English. |
| Imprint: | Seattle : University of Washington Press, c2009. |
| Serier: | Publications on the Near East, University of Washington.
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