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LINK to Phyllo Gif

Greek Filo or phyllo is a very thin unleavened dough used for making pastries such as baklava and borek in Mideastern (Middle-Eastern cuisine includes 
Arab cuisine,IranianPersian cuisine,Israeli cuisine/Jewish cuisine,Assyrian cuisine,Armenian cuisine, Kurdish cuisine,Greek cuisine/Cypriot cuisine, Turkish cuisine, Balkan cuisine, Romanian cuisine.)Filo-based pastries are made by layering many sheets of filo brushed with olive oil or butter; the pastry is then baked.
Baklava ? An Ottoman dessert (With Constantinople as its capital and control of lands around the Mediterranean basin, the Ottoman Empire was at the centre of interactions between the Eastern and Western worlds for six centuries.) dessert with layers of filo with chopped nuts, sweetened and held together with syrup or honey. The forerunner to baklava was the Roman Placenta Cake. 
Placenta AKA Placinta cake (Roman/Turkish/Romanian, Mondolvan, Ukrainian, Bulgarian and/or Greek early historic cake)  The oldest (2nd century BCE) recipe that resembles a similar dessert is the honey covered baked layered-dough dessert placenta of Roman times.
LINK To Placenta AKA Placinta info & recipe VIDEO in Greek

LINK to cake recipe

Baklava
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