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Oriental spice tabaccos

LATAKIA - From Syria/Cyprus (richly smoked and fermented) Latakia was "discovered" when a bumper crop resulted in surplus, and the excess tobacco was stored in the rafters. The village farmers traditionally used camel dung (or other dung, I suspect) as a source of fuel, and the smoke cured tobacco was revealed the following season. Today, Latakia is smoked over a smoldering fire of aromatic herbs. The camel no longer has to process the herbs first!
DUBEC - From Turkey
XANTHI - From Macedonia
KOMOTINI - From Macedonia
DRAMA - From Macedonia
SERRES - From Macedonia
SAMSUN - From the southern coast of the Black Sea, Turkey
IZMIR - From Western Turkey

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