Okovita, a historic Polish-Ukrainian term for an alcoholic drink related to vodka
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Aqua vitae, Latin for "water of life", a concentrated alcoholic distillate
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The earliest known reference to "aquavit" is found in a 1531 letter from the Danish Lord of Bergenshus castle, Eske Bille to Olav Engelbrektsson, the last Roman Catholic Archbishop of Norway.
However, Minuit left the colony on June 15, 1638 and sailed to the Caribbean Island of St. Christopher to barter a ship's cargo of wine and aquavit for tobacco.