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Lahmacun

Turkish, from Arabic لحم بعجين (lahm bi ʿajīn) · pronounced lah-mah-JOON

A thin, round, minced-meat-and-vegetable-topped flatbread from the Levant, widely eaten across Turkey, Armenia, Syria, and Lebanon, baked without cheese or a separate sauce layer and typically much thinner than any pizza dough in this catalogue. Frequently but disputedly marketed in English as 'Turkish pizza' or 'Armenian pizza' — a labelling choice that has itself become a genuine, publicly visible source of cultural friction rather than a settled description.

Literal meaning

Meat with dough

Region

Levant (Turkey, Armenia, Syria, Lebanon)

Also known as

lahmajoun

Common misuse

Calling lahmacun simply 'Armenian pizza' or 'Turkish pizza' without qualification erases genuinely contested claims of cultural association between multiple communities and flattens a distinct dish into a loose pizza-adjacent label.

Evidence

Disputed