High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Pizza is a type of bread and dish that has existed since time immemorial in Middle Eastern and Mediterranean cuisine. The term `pizza` first appeared "in a Latin text from the southern Italian town of Gaeta in 997 AD, which claims that a tenant of certain property is to give the bishop of Gaeta `duodecim pizze`, "twelve pizzas", every Christmas day, and another twelve every Easter Sunday," according to Martin Maiden, Professor of Romance Languages at Trinity College of Oxford University .