Etymological origin of Italian surname: Capodieci

Etymological origin of Italian surname: Capodieci

CAPODIECI

Capodieci has a strain in Brindisi in Mesagne, Latiano, Cellino San Marco and Brindisi, and in Trepuzzi in the Lecce area, and a Sicilian lineage in Syracuse, it should derive from the medieval term capodieci, a sort of commander of a group of armed volunteers, who they spontaneously organized in army to fight an invasion, often Saracen.

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