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Extract from the Ambelkia Travel Guides:
If you have time, or a vehicle, a worthwhile first stop in the Tmbi region is
AMBELKIA
, a large village in the foothills of Mount ssa. During the eighteenth century, this community supported the world's first
industrial co-operative
, producing, dyeing and exporting textiles, and maintaining its own branch offices as far afield as London. With the co-operative came a rare and enlightened prosperity. At a time when most of Greece lay stagnant under Ottoman rule, Ambelkia was largely autonomous; it held democratic assemblies, offered free education and medical care and even subsidized weekly performances of ancient dram...
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