Coffee originated in Ethiopia – it was known there as early as in the first millennium BC. Arab traders transported it later to the areas of present-day Yemen and from this place the habit of drinking coffee was spread all over the Near East, and then all over the world. As early as is the middle ages the peoples inhabiting the territory of present-day Turkey used to drink coffee from small clay and china vessels that resembled the cups used nowadays. Coffee has been served there is small nicely decorated cups up to this day.
