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The good supply of raw materials - leather for making shoes - and its good geographic location, allowing easy access to Europe and the rest of Africa, were also factors.
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Vineyards, leather-good shops, and watch and jewelry makers in Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Poland and the United Kingdom will also take part.
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He is strongest and most original in describing the background to the war, having used a good deal of shoe leather in tracking down the Kosovo diaspora at conference halls in London and lakeside restaurants in Switzerland as well as on rougher Albanian hillsides.
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