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Ravioli in Italy seem to have been the origin of many different kinds of dumplings across Europe and even Asia.  Ravioli in Turkey is called manti - ravioli with raw meat filling that cooks in boiling water, manti in uzbekistan, azerbaijan and northern Afghanistan, momo in Tibet made with meat also and mantou in Korea and China, “but there is no clear proof of whether this movement was east to west or west to east, or perhaps from central asia outward.  Probably dumplings made their journey along the trade routes called the Silk Road, hundreds, or perhaps thousands, of years ago.” (Schenone, Laura 2008, 178) It is difficult to tell how the dumpling spread because of the very early arrival of it in Italy, but we sure do know that the little dough pockets across the globe are descendants of each other!