Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Абрикос обыкновенный" in Russian language version.
Apricots apparently moved from central Asia through Iran into the Transcaucasian area and westward. Such movement must have occured as as a part of the military, economic, and cultural exchange that followed Alexandes of Macedon’s penetrations into Turkestanas far as the Fergana valley during the fourth century B.C. The further movement of apricots westward into Europe seems to have occured in two steps. Apricots came to be known in Greece and Italy as an aftermath of Roman-Persian wars during the first century B.C. The specific or generic name, Armeniaca, certainly suggests that the apricot was first distributed in Italy and Greece by Armenian traders. It was many years later that apricot was cultivated in other southern European countries.
Apricots apparently moved from central Asia through Iran into the Transcaucasian area and westward. Such movement must have occured as as a part of the military, economic, and cultural exchange that followed Alexandes of Macedon’s penetrations into Turkestanas far as the Fergana valley during the fourth century B.C. The further movement of apricots westward into Europe seems to have occured in two steps. Apricots came to be known in Greece and Italy as an aftermath of Roman-Persian wars during the first century B.C. The specific or generic name, Armeniaca, certainly suggests that the apricot was first distributed in Italy and Greece by Armenian traders. It was many years later that apricot was cultivated in other southern European countries.
Apricots apparently moved from central Asia through Iran into the Transcaucasian area and westward. Such movement must have occured as as a part of the military, economic, and cultural exchange that followed Alexandes of Macedon’s penetrations into Turkestanas far as the Fergana valley during the fourth century B.C. The further movement of apricots westward into Europe seems to have occured in two steps. Apricots came to be known in Greece and Italy as an aftermath of Roman-Persian wars during the first century B.C. The specific or generic name, Armeniaca, certainly suggests that the apricot was first distributed in Italy and Greece by Armenian traders. It was many years later that apricot was cultivated in other southern European countries.
