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Europe's first paper mill

Xàtiva, La Costera, Valencia

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Europe's first paper mill

Historical milestone · Xàtiva, La Costera, Valencia

Image of Xàtiva, not of the place itself.

Islamic Xàtiva was the first place in Western Europe where papermaking is documented. The city's mills, mentioned by Arab geographers from 1154 onward, spread a technique that had arrived from the East and from here extended across the continent.

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Photo: Cristina Carmona (CC BY-SA 3.0 es)

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