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Many of the region’s other mountain villages were abandoned, their granaries turned into tourist attractions or, in at least one case, a “Star Wars” filming location.

From New York Times • Jan. 19, 2023

Also among the possibilities: Iceland in winter, exploring the “birthplace of tea” in China, or strolling through the sacred granaries, casbahs and feasts of Morocco, or tracking wolves in Sweden.

From Washington Times • May 29, 2022

Inventories of iron ore, coal and cotton are bulging at ports across the country and state granaries are overflowing.

From Reuters • Nov. 18, 2014

Social behavior probably started to evolve as soon as cats began to congregate around granaries.

From Washington Post • Oct. 14, 2013

The downtown area alone had six thousand masonry structures: homes, temples, palaces, and granaries, even an eighteen-foot-high defensive wall.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann