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CULOSI | CULOSO

Typical of the Catanian Culosi, of the Messina Culoso, of very uncertain origin, we can hypothesize a derivation from the toponym Culon, a Jewish city of Palestine, but more probably they derive from a dialectical modification of the apheresis of the name Nicola.

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


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