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MOKHA (Mocha, properly Makha)

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 651 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MOKHA (Mocha, properly Makha) , a See also:town in See also:Arabia on the Red See also:Sea See also:coast in 13° 19' N. and 43° 12' E. Formerly the See also:chief See also:port for the See also:Yemen See also:coffee export, it has much diminished in importance. The coffee grown in the See also:mountain districts of Haraz, Uden, and Ta'iz is now shipped at See also:Hodeda or See also:Aden, though the See also:article retains the See also:trade name of " Mocha." The town lies in a small See also:bay 40 M. N. of See also:Perim at the See also:southern entrance to the Red Sea. The anchorage is not See also:good, and the port is only used by native vessels. Seen from the sea the town has rather an imposing See also:appearance, but a near See also:review shows that the houses though large and built of See also:stone are mostly in ruins. The neighbouring See also:country is an arid See also:plain without fresh See also:water, the town being supplied by an See also:aqueduct from the See also:village of Muza, situated 16 m. to the See also:east. This is probably identical with the Muza of the Periplus, a See also:great seat of the Red Sea trade in antiquity, which like Betel Fakih, Zubed and other old Tehama towns, formerly seaports, has See also:long since been See also:left by the receding sea. There is a See also:Turkish kaimakam and a small See also:garrison at Mokha, which is See also:part of the See also:civil See also:district of Taiz in the vilayet of Yemen.

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