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History of olive oil  The origin of the olive tree goes back to the beginning of time. Its story is intimately linked to the history of civilization, especially to those that have succeeded one another in the basin of the Mediterranean Sea The plant's area of origin extends from south of the Caucasus to the highlands of Iran, and along the Mediterranean coast of Syria and Palestine. From Syria and Palestine, the olive tree spread to Anatolia and Egypt by way of the islands of Cyprus and Crete. Around the sixteenth century BC, the Phoenicians introduced the olive tree to the Hellenic peninsula. From there, at the beginning of the sixth century BC, the olive tree extended all around the Mediterranean basin, from the African coast to Italy and southern France until the Iberian peninsula. The colonization by the Greeks (seventh century BC) and the Roman Empire spread the cultivation of the olive tree to all the Mediterranean countries. |
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