Three failed historical attempts to ban coffee Bashny.Net

        1. Mecca

Coffee was banned in Mecca in 1511, the year, because they believed that it is radical thinking — gradopravitel then decided that coffee might unite his opposition. Even the coffee was not very good reputation "funeral drink": the selected Sufi brotherhood used it as a stimulant, and at the funeral Sufis drank a great Cup of coffee to stay awake during prayers.

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        2. Italy
When in the XVI-th century, coffee came to Europe, the clergy insisted on its prohibition and declared to be the drink of Satan. But Pope Clement VIII tried coffee, found the taste great and even joked on the fact that he would have to sanctify.

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        3. Constantinople

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After Murad IV V. 1623, the year he ascended the Ottoman throne, he was immediately banned coffee and introduced a system of penalties for his drink. For the first violation of the decree of the offender was beaten, and anyone caught drinking coffee 2 times and sewed up in a leather bag and drowned in the Bosphorus.

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