History Of Oranges
The sweet delicious juicy orange is eaten all around the world and was born as a
sour fruit, growing wild in China. Dating back thousands of years, the orange was
probably being cultivated by the Chinese by 2500 BC. It may also have found roots in the
Assam area of India and in Myanmar.
Mysteriously, for thousands of years, oranges seem to have remained an Oriental
treat, not written up in the Middle East, or mentioned by the Greeks. Those which
reached the west in the earliest days were of the sour variety. Eventually the Romans,
always in the market for exotic produce, obtained oranges the hard way. After long sea
voyages from India, which finally brought young trees into the Roman port of Ostia, in
the first century AD. After the fall of Rome in the 5th century AD, orange raising. and
importing both died out for centuries. Orange trees were planted across North Africa by
the first century AD. The Moors, the Muslim natives of the region,......
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