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Playing-cards first reached Europe in about 1360, not immediately from China, but from the Islamic Mamluk Empire of Egypt by way of the trading port of Venice. Mamluk cards themselves additionally do not derive instantly from Chinese cards however bear obscure relationships to the geographically intervening cards of India and (even extra obscurely) Persia (Iran). Surviving specimens of Mamluk cards come from an original 52-card pack consisting of 4 fits (swords, polo sticks, goblets, coins) of 13 ranks each (numerals…