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Pizza (English /ËpiËtsÉ/ ; [Ëpittsa]) is a flatbread generally topped with tomato sauce and cheese and baked in an oven. It is commonly topped with a selection of meats, vegetables and condiments. The term was first recorded in the 10th century, in a Latin manuscript from Gaeta in Central Italy.odern pizza evolved from similar flatbread dishes in Naples, Italy in the 18th or early 19th century. Prior to that time, flatbread was often topped with ingredients such as garlic, salt, lard, cheese, and basil. It is uncertain when tomatoes were first added and there are many conflicting claims.
Modern pizza, as we know it today, originated in Italy as the Neapolitan pie with tomato and the cheese was added in 1889. The pizza is from Italy, but was not developed until after the cultivation of the tomato, brought back to Spain from Central America in the 1500's. Ironically a cheese, basil and tomato pizza was already popular in Naples, but it did not have quite the same impact in the annals of pizza history. 2  Baker's shops in Pompeii show evidence of flat breads that could have been amongst the world's first pizzas.