Rays is widespread in Lombardy, Liguria, Emilia and Romagna, Tuscany, Marche, Umbria and Lazio, Ray would seem of the Genoese, with a secondary strain in Sardinia and one in Naples, the Genoese nucleus could derive from Apheresis of the name "Paraggi" (GE), For all the others one can speak of a derivation from the medieval name Ragius of which one has an example in the diplomatic code of the medieval Lombardy under the year 1199 to Vimercate (MI): "... Dixerunt et guarentaverunt suprascripti Petrus et Aribertus seu Manescottus et Ragius esse datos on terra empta ab Alexandro maiore et minister... ".
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