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MONTENEGRO

Montenegro is a decidedly Pugliese surname, of the Bari in particular, of Acquaviva delle Fonti, Barletta and Gioia del Colle, it should derive from the fact that the family was originally from Montenegro, a nation on the Slavic shore of the Adriatic that for many centuries was a principality independent, following the Ottoman conquest of 1496, many Orthodox Christian citizens

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


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