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Vodka is a strong alcoholic drink, a colorless water-alcohol solution with a characteristic taste and a pronounced alcoholic smell. Vodka is one of the most popular spirits in the world. Distillation technology was developed by the Greeks from ancient Alexandria in the 1st century. In the 11th century, distillation was practiced in Persia and the Middle East. Avicenna mentions the use of stills to obtain essential oils, and the doctor Ar-Razi used alcohol for medical purposes.
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In Europe, obtaining alcohol-containing liquids began to be practiced by the alchemists of Provence and Italy. They used grape must as raw material. The first documentary evidence of the distillation of alcohol dates back to the 12th century and affects the work of doctors in the medical school of the city of Salerno in Italy.
Vodka is considered a Russian word, and the first distillate producers in Europe used Latin. The authors of the term "vodka" are clearly not from Italy or France. In Russia, the drink did not immediately receive its modern name. It was called bread wine, hot wine, polugar. For the first time the term "vodka" was recorded in documents in 1533.
