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Fun fact: the Arabic word for the orange fruit "burtuqan" (Egyptian Arabic)/burtuqala (standard Arabic) is literally the Arabic word for "Portugal"
This is b/c when the Moors colonized Iberia, they used Portugal as a cultivator of oranges and shipped them across the Middle East
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