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== History ==

Legend has it that the Viennese, while liberating themselves from the [[Battle of Vienna|second Turkish occupationsiege of Vienna]] in [[1683]], found a number of sacks with strange beans that they initially thought were camel feed and wanted to burn. An interpreter named [[Franz Georg Kolschitzky]] kept the sacks and started the first coffee house. After some experimentation, he added some sugar and milk, and the Viennese coffee tradition was born.

In reality, one of the first cafés was started by Armenian/Greek [[Johannes Diodato]], a spy for the Austrians, who was given an initial coffee trade monopoly for his services.