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During plague outbreaks Venice made arriving ships wait forty days before landing — quarantena, from the word for 'forty' — and the practice and its name spread to every port of Europe and the Mediterranean, from Marseille to Istanbul and Beirut, where a whole district is still called Karantina.

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