| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - The emeralds from Colombia first reached Spain after being carried across the Caribbean and the Atlantic, and after one-fifth of the best emeralds were taken as royalty by the King, most of the remaining emeralds were exported to Europe and countries in Middle East and Asia, such as the Ottoman empire based in Turkey, the Persian empire based in Iran and the Mughal empire based in India.
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