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It is commonly topped with a selection of meats, vegetables and condiments. 
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Several similar dishes are prepared from ingredients commonly used in pizza preparation, such as calzone and stromboli. It is a popular fast food item.
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Pizza is a flatbread generally topped with tomato sauce and cheese and baked in an oven. 
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The modern pizza was invented in Naples, Italy, and the dish and its variants have since become popular in many areas of the world. 
In 2009, upon Italys request, Neapolitan pizza was safeguarded in the European Union as a Traditional Speciality Guaranteed dish. 
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It promotes and protects the true Neapolitan pizza. 
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The Associazione Verace Pizza Napoletana (the True Neapolitan Pizza Association) is a non-profit organization founded in 1984 with headquarters in Naples. 
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Modern pizza evolved from similar flatbread dishes in Naples, Italy in the 18th or early 19th century. Until about 1830, pizza was sold from open-air stands and out of pizza bakeries, and pizzerias keep this old tradition alive today. Antica Pizzeria PortAlba in Naples is widely regarded as the first pizzeria. 
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Pizza is sold fresh, frozen or in portions. Various types of ovens are used to cook them and many varieties exist. 
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A popular contemporary legend holds that the archetypal pizza, pizza Margherita, was invented in 1889, when the Royal Palace of Capodimonte commissioned the Neapolitan pizzaiolo (pizza maker) Raffaele Esposito to create a pizza in honor of the visiting Queen Margherita. Of the three different pizzas he created, the Queen strongly preferred a pie swathed in the colors of the Italian flag: red (tomato), green (basil), and white (mozzarella). 
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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. 
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The term was first recorded in the 10th century, in a Latin manuscript from Gaeta in Central Italy. 
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Supposedly, this kind of pizza was then named after the Queen as Pizza Margherita, although recent research casts doubt on this legend. 
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A popular variant of pizza in Italy is Sicilian pizza (locally called sfincione or sfinciuni), a thick-crust or deep-dish pizza originating during the 17th century in Sicily: it is essentially a focaccia that is typically topped with tomato sauce and other ingredients. 
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Until the 1860s, sfincione was the type of pizza usually consumed in Sicily, especially in the Western portion of the island. 
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Other variations of pizzas are also found in other regions of Italy, for example pizza al padellino or pizza al tegamino, a small-sized, thick-crust and deep-dish pizza typically served in Turin, Piedmont. 
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