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CORTAZZA | CORTAZZI | CORTAZZO

Cortazza is almost unique, Cortazzi is absolutely rare, Cortazzo, the most widespread, has a stock in the Salerno area in Cannalonga in particular, in Vallo della Lucania and in Agropoli, they should derive from toponyms containing the reference to Court or from names of places that they do reference to the short medieval term (see CORTE).

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


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