![]() Pliny the Elder writes in his Natural History that pistacia, "well known among us", was one of the trees unique to Syria, and that the seed was introduced into Italy by the Roman Proconsul in Syria, Lucius Vitellius the Elder (in office in 35 AD) and into Hispania at the same time by Flaccus Pompeius. It appears in Dioscorides' writings as pistákia (πιστάκια), recognizable as P. Theophrastus described it as a terebinth-like tree with almond-like nuts from Bactria. vera was first cultivated in Bronze Age Central Asia, where the earliest example is from Djarkutan, modern Uzbekistan. Archaeology shows that pistachio seeds were a common food as early as 6750 BC. The pistachio tree is native to regions of Central Asia, including present-day Iran and Afghanistan. Pistachio is from late Middle English "pistace", from Old French, superseded in the 16th century by forms from Italian "pistacchio", via Latin from Greek πιστάκιον " pistákion", from Middle Persian "*pistak" (the New Persian variant being پسته " pista").
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