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Painting of Mocha in 1692
Painting of Mocha in 1692

Mocha (Arabic: المخا [al-Mukhā]) is a port city on the Red Sea coast of Yemen. Arabic (ar الْعَرَبيّة (informally ar عَرَبيْ) in terms of the number of speakers is the largest living member of the Semitic language The Red Sea is a Salt water Inlet of the Indian Ocean between Africa and Asia. Yemen ( Arabic: اليَمَن al-Yaman officially the Republic of Yemen ( Arabic: الجمهورية اليمنية al-Jumhuuriyya Until it was eclipsed in the 19th century by Aden and Hodeida, Mocha was the principal port for Yemen's capital Sana'a. The 19th century of the Common Era began on January 1, 1801 and ended on December 31, 1900, according to the Gregorian calendar Aden (ˈeɪdən Arabic: عدن) is a city in Yemen, 170 kilometers east of Bab-el-Mandeb. Al Hudaydah (also written as Hodeidah) (الحديدة is the fourth largest city in Yemen with a population 400000 people and the centre of Al Hudaydah Governorate

Mocha is famous for being the major marketplace for coffee from the 15th century until the 17th century. CoFFEE is an Open source Software for computer supported collaborative learning (CSCL in a digital classroom As a means of recording the passage of Time, the 17th Century was that Century which lasted from 1601 - 1700 in the Gregorian calendar Even after other sources of coffee were found, Mocha (also called Sanani (meaning from Sana'a) or Mocha Sanani) beans continued to be prized for their strong, chocolate flavor—and remain so even today. From this coffee the English language gained the word mocha.

According to the Jesuit and traveller Jeronimo Lobo, who sailed the Red Sea in 1625, Mocha was "formerly of limited reputation and trade" but since "the Turkish assumption of power throughout Arabia, it has become the major city of the territory under Turkish domination, even though it is not the Pasha's place of residence, which is two days' journey inland in the city of Sana'a. The Society of Jesus ( Latin: Societas Iesu, SJ and SI or SJ, SI) is a Catholic religious order Jerónimo Lobo ( 1593 - 29 January, 1678) was a Portuguese Jesuit Missionary. The Arabian Peninsula (in Arabic: شبه الجزيرة العربية šibh al-jazīra al-ʻarabīya or جزيرة العرب jazīrat al-ʻarab) "[1] Lobo adds that its importance as a port was also due to the Ottoman law that required all ships entering the Red Sea to put in at Mocha and pay duty on their cargoes. The Ottoman Empire (1299–1923 ( Old Ottoman Turkish: دولتْ علیّه عثمانیّه Devlet-i Âliye-yi Osmâniyye, Late Ottoman and Modern Turkish

Passing through Mocha in 1752, Remedius Prutky found that it boasted a "lodging-house of the Prophet Mahomet, so-called, which was like a huge tenement block laid out in many hundred separate cells where accommodation was rented to al strangers without discrimination of race or religion. " He also found a number of European ships in the harbor: three French, four English, two Dutch, and one Portuguese. This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located The Netherlands ( Dutch:, ˈnedərlɑnt is the European part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which consists of the Netherlands the Netherlands Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic (República Portuguesa is a country on the Iberian Peninsula. [2]

At present, Mocha is no longer utilized as a major trade route and the current local economy is largely based upon fishing and small amounts of tourism. The village of Mocha was officially relocated 3 kilometers west along the Red Sea shore to accommodate the building and demolition of several coastal highways.

Mocha is the ancestral home of Alyan Muhammad Ali al-Wa'eli, a Yemeni terrorist accused of participating in the 2000 USS Cole attack in the Gulf of Aden. Alyan Muhammad Ali al-Wa'eli ( Arabic:) (born in 1970 in Yemen) became wanted in 2002 by the United States Department of Justice 's FBI, which


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  1. ^ Donald M. Lockhart, translator, The Itinerário of Jerónimo Lobo (London: Hakluyt Society, 1984), p. The Hakluyt Society is a Registered charity based in London England, dedicated to the advancement of the understanding of world history 88
  2. ^ J. H. Arrowsmith-Brown, translator and editor, Prutky's Travels to Ethiopia and Other Countries (London: Hakluyt Society, 1991), pp. 363f

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