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Laquintana would seem to be specific to Monopoli (BA), La Quintana seems to be due to different ways of transcription, it could derive from the fact of living in the family between the fifth and sixth sextile of a city or on the via quintana, as this street was called in the era medieval.

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


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