Turkish tobacco
![Drying of tobacco on the streets of Prilep, Macedonia](/Images/godic/202502/18/Sušenje_duvana_u_Prilepu_25145.JPG")
![Stacks of dried oriental tobacco in Prilep, Macedonia](/Images/godic/202502/18/Stacks_of_tobacco_in_Prilep5145.JPG")
Oriental tobacco or Turkish tobacco is a highly aromatic, small-leafed variety of tobacco which is sun-cured. Historically, it was cultivated primarily in Thrace and Macedonia, now divided among Bulgaria, Greece the Republic of Macedonia, and Turkey, but it is now also grown on the Black Sea coast of Turkey, in Egypt, in South Africa, and elsewhere.