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rakovsky

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Nov 28, 2024
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I'm an Orthodox Christian, though a rather poor one, a husband, father and most recently a grandfather.
Savvas sounds Serbian.
Atlanta has a big, beautiful Orthodox church.
I visited the Greek cathedrals in Greenville and Columbia and they are both impressive.
"Balkan Sobranie" has a Slavic name (sobranie means gathering), but I don't know how representative the original blend's use of Latakia was for what Slavs actually smoked in the Balkans. D and R makes Bulgarian Blend, an Oriental without Latakia, and I liked it.
Wishing you the best.
 

Savvas

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Jan 18, 2025
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Savvas sounds Serbian.
Atlanta has a big, beautiful Orthodox church.
I visited the Greek cathedrals in Greenville and Columbia and they are both impressive.
"Balkan Sobranie" has a Slavic name (sobranie means gathering), but I don't know how representative the original blend's use of Latakia was for what Slavs actually smoked in the Balkans. D and R makes Bulgarian Blend, an Oriental without Latakia, and I liked it.
Wishing you the best.
Savvas is the Greek spelling of Sabas. My patron saint is St. Savvas the Sanctified. He founded one of the oldest continually inhabited monasteries in the world, Mar Saba, in Palestine in the year 483.

I'm neither Greek nor Palestinian. Just a Southern white cracker that converted after a look into Church history.
 
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