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Food Culture: The Olive was a native to Asia Minor and spread from Iran, Syria and Palestine to the rest of the Mediterrenean basin 6,000 years ago. |
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It is among the oldest known cultivated trees in the world - being grown before the written language was invented. It was being grown on Crete by 3,000 BC and may have been the source of the wealth of the Minoan kingdom. The Phoenicians spread the olive to the Mediterranean shores of Africa and Southern Europe. The olive culture was spread to the early Greeks the Romans. As the Romans extended their domain they brought the olive with them. |
Olives (Olea europaea)
Olives have been cultivated since prehistoric times in Asia Minor. From there, they spread all over the world. Today they are commercially produced in Spain, Italy, France, Greece, Tunisia, Morocco, Turkey, Portugal, China, Chile, Peru, Brazil, Mexico, Angola, South Africa, Uruguay, Afghanistan, Australia, New Zealand, and California. Hands down, though, until this day, the Mediterranean area produces the most. Of the some 800 million olive trees growing on earth at this moment. 93 percent are growing in the Mediterranean area. The commercial and wild olive plantation is found into belts around the world between 30-45° North and South of equator.
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These evergreen trees can attain a great age some in the eastern Mediterranan are estimated to be over 2,000 years old. They grow to a height of 20-40 feet and begin to bear fruit sometime between 4 and 8 years old
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