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Encyclopedia Britannica



MOKHA (Mocha, properly Makha)

This article appears in Volume V18, Page 651 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MIC-MOL
MOKHA (Mocha, properly Makha) , a town in Arabia on the Red Sea
coast
  in 13 19' N. and 43 12' E. Formerly the
chief
  port for the
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 Aden, though the article retains the
trade
  name of " Mocha." The town lies in a small bay 40 M. N. of Perim at the 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 water, the town being supplied by an aqueduct from the
village
  of Muza, situated 16 m. to the
east
 . This is probably identical with the Muza of the Periplus, a
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 left by the receding sea. There is a Turkish kaimakam and a small garrison at Mokha, which is part of the civil
district
  of Taiz in the vilayet of
Yemen
 .


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