Editing Kebab (section)

====Greece====
{{Main|Gyros|Souvlaki}}
[[File:Pita giros.JPG|thumb|left|[[Gyro (food)|Gyro]] kebab sandwiches in Greece served with fixings and [[tzatziki]] sauce in [[pita]] bread]]
While the history of [[street foods]] in [[Greek cuisine|Greece]] goes back to ancient times, the iconic Greek ''[[Gyro (food)|gyros]]'' and ''[[souvlaki]]'' as it is known today arose only following the [[World War II|Second World War]]. Introduced to [[Athens]] in the 1950s by Greek refugees from Turkey and the Middle East, gyros was originally known simply as ''döner kebab''. It is typically served as a sandwich rolled in [[pita]] bread, or on a plate, with french fries and various salads and sauces such as [[tzatziki]]. Later in the 1960s, vendors also began selling dishes in the same style made with souvlaki, which resembles Turkish shish kebab, but is usually made with pork.<ref name="Street Foods">
{{cite book
| title=Street Foods
| author1-last=Matalas | author1-first=Antonia-Leda
| author2-last=Yannakoulia | author2-first=Mary
| editor1-last=Simopoulos | editor1-first=Artemis P.
| editor-link1=Artemis Simopoulos
| editor2-last=Bhat | editor2-first=Ramesh Venkataramana
| chapter=Greek Street Food Vending: An Old Habit Turned New
| chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QQgwVl22fXkC&pg=PA6
| year=2000
| publisher=Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers
| isbn=978-3-8055-6927-9
| pages=6
}}
</ref>

Around the same time, the Greek word ''gyros'' replaced ''döner kebab'', and the Greek style of the dish spread to become popular, particularly in North America, and various other parts of the world.<ref name="The Food Timeline: history notes--sandwiches">
{{cite news
| url=http://www.foodtimeline.org/foodsandwiches.html#gyros
| title=The Gyro, a Greek Sandwich, Selling Like Hot Dogs
| date=4 September 1971
| newspaper=The New York Times
| pages=23
| access-date=22 February 2016
}}
</ref>

In contrast to other areas of Greece, in Athens, both types of sandwich may be called ''souvlaki'', with the skewered meat being called ''kalamaki''.

Although gyros is unquestionably of Middle Eastern origin, the issue of whether modern-day souvlaki came to Greece via Turkish cuisine, and should be considered a Greek styling of shish kebab, or is a contemporary revival of Greek tradition dating as far back as 17th century BC [[Minoan civilization]],<ref name="Greece Is">
{{cite web
| url=http://www.greece-is.com/prehistoric-gastronomy-2/
| title=Prehistoric Gastronomy
| author=Tassoula Eptakili
| date=2015-10-09
| website=Greece Is
| access-date=21 February 2016
}}
</ref> is a topic of sometimes heated debate, at least between Greeks and Turks.<ref name="David L. Gold">
{{cite book
| last=Gold | first=David L.
| title=Studies in Etymology and Etiology With Emphasis on Germanic, Jewish, Romance and Slavic Languages
| quote=Greeks and Turks also battle over the similar dishes which the first call ''soublaki'' (> english ''souvlaki'') and the second ''şiş kebabı'' (> English ''shish kebab''), each claiming to be the originators.
| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l015C5vm1XkC&pg=PA323
| year=2009
| publisher=Universidad de Alicante
| isbn=978-84-7908-517-9
| pages=323
}}
</ref> While English speakers may refer to souvlaki skewers as kebabs,<ref name="Jamie Oliver Recipes">
{{cite web
| url=http://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/pork-recipes/souvlaki-wicked-kebabs/
| title=Souvlaki (Wicked kebabs)
| website=Jamie Oliver Recipes
| access-date=22 February 2016
}}
</ref> they are not properly called that in Greece.