Everyone's going BANANAS; FOOD FOR THOUGHT.MOST experts agree that the banana had its origins somewhere in South East Asia East Asia A region of Asia coextensive with the Far East. East Asian adj. & n. . From there, they spread rapidly as people moved from one country to another, taking the banana plant with them and searching out new areas in which to grow their fruit. The first Europeans to meet the banana were almost certainly the ancient Greeks This an alphabetical list of ancient Greeks. These include ethnic Greeks and Greek language speakers from Greece and the Mediterranean world up to about 200 AD. : Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Related articles A . When Alexander the Great travelled to India, he described a strange new fruit that was later identified as a variety of banana. Strangely, although both the Greeks and the Romans travelled extensively, they do not appear to have taken the banana to their colonies in Western Asia or Eastern Africa, and most believe the banana's first arrival in the Holy Land and Northern Egypt to have been on Arab trading boats or 'dhows' as they were called. As the word 'banana' is also Arabic for 'finger', this is thought to be the origin of the name. But the journey to Africa is thought to have been more direct, with the banana travelling from Sumatra to Madagascar. Enter the Arab traders again, moving their wares We love "wares" in this industry as noted below. See also warez. abandonware adware annoyware badware beltware betaware bloatware boardware brochureware bridgeware censorware cloudware courseware crapware crimeware crippleware crossware crudware demoware donateware dribbleware from Madagascar through the Zambezi Valley, the African Great Lakes The Great Lakes of Africa are a series of lakes in and around the Great Rift Valley. They include Lake Victoria, the second largest fresh water lake in the world in terms of surface area, and Lake Tanganyika, the world's second largest in volume as well as the second deepest. and the Congo, and it is easy to see how the banana was to become well established in West Africa's Guinea Coast by the 15th century. From there, the journey to the Canary Islands Canary Islands, Span. Islas Canarias, group of seven islands (1990 pop. 1,589,403), 2,808 sq mi (7,273 sq km), autonomous region of Spain, in the Atlantic Ocean off Western Sahara. They constitute two provinces of Spain. Santa Cruz de Tenerife (1990 pop. , Madeira and the Azores was swift, and bananas ba·nan·as adj. Slang Crazy: "That's the horrible thing when you're bananas arrived in the Caribbean in 1516, where most of our bananas still come from today. Did you know........ The banana plant is not a tree - it is the world's largest herb The first commercial shipment of 20,000 bunches of bananas arrived in the UK in September 1888 During the war, bananas could not be imported into the UK and people in Britain did not see a banana for eight years Bananas are now Britain's most popular fruit |
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