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I just realised: a huge chunk of the Sack Man countries (Spain, Portugal, Algeria, Tunisia, Bulgaria, Hungary, Armenia, Turkey) are former territories of the Ottoman Empire or earlier Muslim empires. That would explain how it spread so widely. Don't know how we'd find a source to back it up though. Serendi^podous 10:08, 14 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]