The history of pizza begins in antiquity, when
various ancient cultures produced basic flatbreads with several toppings.
A precursor of pizza was probably the focaccia, a
flat bread known to the Romans as panis focacius, to which
toppings were then added. Modern pizza evolved
from similar flatbread dishes in Naples, Italy, in the 18th or early 19th
century.
The word pizza was first documented in A.D. 997 in Gaeta
and successively in different parts of Central and Southern Italy.
pizza
was mainly eaten in Italy and by emigrants from there.