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How Pizza was Invented
Who invented pizza?
The answer to this question is not simple as the answers may vary depending on what we consider is pizza. Pizza exists in many forms around the world; even in America, there are different styles of pizza like New York and Chicago. There is no single origin for the invention of Pizza. However, many trace the beginning of pizza back to the 7th century when the Byzantine Empire colonized the current city of Naples.
The first pizza
When the Byzantine Empire conquered the southern part of the Italian Peninsula, many Greeks migrated and built a city called Neapolis, later being called Napoli or Naples. During the 7th century, Greeks introduced the pita, a thin circular dough that they would eat with olive oil, feta cheese, and herbs on top of it. It is likely that the origin of pizza was the pita that the Greeks brought to Naples during this era. Some suggest that the word pizza even derived from the pita.
However, this dish was very far from the pizza that we are familiar with. To become the pizza of today, a new ingredient had to…
