section_path: History/Post-Roman Europe
section_name: Post-Roman Europe
paragraph_text: Post-Roman Europe
  
  c. 1000, Anglo-Saxons in England named a village by the River Thames Ceswican, meaning "Cheese farm". In 1022, it is mentioned that Vlach (Aromanian) shepherds from Thessaly and the Pindus mountains, in modern Greece, provided cheese for Constantinople. Many cheeses popular today were first recorded in the late Middle Ages or after. Cheeses such as Cheddar around 1500, Parmesan in 1597, Gouda in 1697, and Camembert in 1791 show post-Middle Ages dates.
  
  In 1546, The Proverbs of John Heywood claimed " the moon is made of a green cheese " (Greene may refer here not to the color, as many now think, but to being new or unaged). Variations on this sentiment were long repeated and NASA exploited this myth for an April Fools' Day spoof announcement in 2006.