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I was wondering if if it would be total bs for me to have the Byzantines consuming coffee in the 13th century or 12th century. Could anyone see coffee being introduced to the medieval middle east/Rhomania sooner than it was to the Ottomans? I know that Yemeni Sufis in the 14th/15th centuries are recorded as consuming it...
I just wanted the first hero of my TL, Theodore I Komnenos, to encounter coffee in the levant following his conquest of Antioch in 1204