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OTHER COUNTRIES Considerable quantities of See also:

wine are produced in the See also:Balkan states, but the bulk of this is of a coarse description and only See also:fit for See also:local See also:consumption. The See also:average yield of See also:Bulgaria and See also:Rumania is probably some 30 to 40 million gallons for each See also:country, but in some years it is much larger. Thus in 1896 Rumania produced no less than Io1 million gallons and Bulgaria 81 million gallons. The wine See also:industry in See also:Greece, which in See also:ancient times and during the See also:middle ages was of See also:great importance, has now become, at any See also:rate in point of quality, quite insignificant. At the See also:present See also:time a great See also:part of the industry is devoted to the cultivation of the See also:currant See also:vine (Vitis corinthiaca). There is a considerable export of currants and raisins and concentrated wine must from this country. Many of the islands of the Mediterranean, from which the ancients See also:drew their supplies of wine, such as See also:Chios, See also:Cos, Tenedos, See also:Crete and See also:Cyprus, still produce considerable quantities of wine, but the bulk of this is scarcely to the See also:modern See also:European See also:taste. In See also:Asia wine is produced, according to Thudichum, principally in See also:Caucasia and See also:Armenia. In See also:Persia, also, wines are made, especially in the See also:Shiraz See also:district. See also:Russia also See also:pro. duces a small quantity of wine, principally in the See also:Crimea.

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