Mocha, a seaport, and once the capital of Yemen in Arabia, is situated on the Red Sea, 130 miles WNW. of Aden. From early in the 16th century until the middle of the 17th Mocha was the port from which the coffee of Yemen was principally exported; hence called Mocha coffee. It is now a decayed place. Pop. 5000.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 7: Maltebrun to Pearson, p. 242
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