history of pistachio in the world

For the first time that pistachio is mentioned, in Genesis, as is the walnut in Song of Songs, while the almond is mentioned many times. Archaeologists have found evidence from excavations at Jarmo in northeastern Iraq.The Hanging Gardens of Babylon were said to have contained pistachio trees during the reign of King Merodach-Baladan about 700 BC.The modern pistachio . vera was first cultivated in Western Asia, where it has long been an important crop in cooler parts of Iran and Iraq. It appears in Dioscurides as pistakia πιστάκια, recognizable as P. vera by its comparison to pine nuts.Its cultivation spread into the Mediterranean world by way of Persia from SyriaPistachio History

Pliny the Elder writes in his natural History that pistachio seeds were a common food as early as 6750 BC. asserts that pistachio was one of the unique  trees to Syria, and that the seed was introduced into Italy by the Roman Proconsul in Syria, Lucius Vitellius the Elder and into Hispania at the same time by Flaccus Pompeius.The early sixth-century manuscript De observatione ciborum by Anthimus implies that pistacia remained well known in Europe in Late Antiquity. The pistachio is one of three seeds mentioned in the Bible.