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MORACA | MORACE | MORACI | MURACA | MURACE | MURACI

Moraca is typical of the Catanzaro area, of Lamezia Terme and San Mango d'Aquino, with a small stock also in the Neapolitan area, Morace, in addition to the Roman secondary stock, has a stock in Forenza in the Potentino, in Calabria in Crotone and Catanzaro and in Sicily aa Catania and Aci Catena (CT) and Messina, where it is present as a variant of the surname Moraci which is specific, Muraca is typically Calabrese, of the area that includes the provinces of Cosenza, Catanzaro and Crotone, Murace is specific to Bivongi and Monasterace in Reggino, with a stock also in Rome and Aprilia (LT), Muraci is almost unique, they should all derive from the dialectal voice of Greek origin, morace or murace, or from its female voice, moraca or muraca (dark hair, brunetto or brunetto). hypotheses provided by Antonio Muraca Authoritative scholars like De Felice have cataloged this surname as of Greek origin. Proof of this is the fact that the widespread surname Morakis is still widespread in Greece, especially in Crete, which corresponds to Moraca.This surname is actually the original one. Muraca is a transliteration of Moraca due to a transcription error in the public registers. In Lamezia it appears from the archives

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


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Language of the text: Italiano

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