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Typical Apulian, from the area of Conversano and Polignano a Mare, it also has a stock in Pescara, it could derive from names of places like Bosco Selva (BA) or similar.

Bibliographic source' "L'origine dei cognomi Italianim storia ed etimologia" di E. Rossoni disponibile online su: https://archive.org/

SELVA

It has an important nucleus in Valtellina, in Como and in Lecco, one in Bolognese and one between Venetian and Friuli, with a strain also in Neapolitan, it should derive from names of localities, there are many fractions identified by the term Selva xxxxx, traces of this House we have been in Valtellina since the thirteenth century and at Teglio Veneto in Venice at least from 1400.

Bibliographic source' "L'origine dei cognomi Italianim storia ed etimologia" di E. Rossoni disponibile online su: https://archive.org/


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