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<pre>> Please welcome me as a new member of this list.
>I am mainly a historian of the pre-industrial Mediterranean
>and I have done some research on agriculture, including
>olive growing and trade in the late antiquity period, with
>a focus on western Greece and southern Italy. Also I live
>in an olive-producing region of western Greece.
Welcome Steve! You wouldn't by any chance be anywhere near Agrinio? We have a
small family farm with a 1000+ tree grove there.

Norm Corley
Athens, Greece
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