In 1313 the town was taken by Saru Khan and became the capital of the Turcoman emirate of that name. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 17, Slice 5 Various. Toward the close of the ninth century the emirate began to break under the strain of constant war.
Moussaka (Arabic: ÙØ³ÙØ¹Ø©ââ, /muËËsÉËkÉ/, /ËmuËsÉËkÉË/ or /ËmuËsÉËËkÉË/) is an eggplant- (aubergine) or potato-based dish, often including ground meat, in the Levant, Middle East, and Balkans, with many local and regional variations. In Greece, the dish is layered and typically served hot.
The word comes from the Greek ÏÎ±ÏÎºÎ±ÏÎ¼ÏÏ (sarkasmos) which is taken from ÏÎ±ÏÎºÎ¬Î¶ÎµÎ¹Î½ meaning to tear flesh, bite the lip in rage, sneer. It is first recorded in English in 1579, in an annotation to The Shepheardes Calender by Edmund Spenser :