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Article: The rise and fall of English coffee houses.
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- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- February 1, 2005
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COFFEE shops are now springing up all over Britain. This is not the first time that coffee houses have been so popular. The seventeenth-century coffee house contributed to England's rise to global greatness.
The first documented mention of coffee comes in the 10th century, from an Arabian doctor Rhazes. Its original purpose was medicinal. Ethiopia was the centre for the spread of coffee throughout Arabia and Africa. It was in the Yemen where the practice of roasting beans began in about 1200. The Muslims spread the custom of coffee throughout the Islamic world. The world's first coffee shop was opened in 1475 at Constantinople (present-day Istanbul).
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