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SCAVONE | SCAVONI

Scavone has a stump in the Potentino at Ruoti, Tito, Potenza, fussy, Picerno and Bella and some in Sicily, Trapani in Marsala and Mazara del Vallo and Syracuse, Catania, Palermo and San brother in Messina, Scavoni, almost unique is probably due to errors of Transcription of the previous one, it should be treated of accreitive forms born from the term Sclavus (slave), due perhaps to the imposing of the ancestor, and with the state of former slave probably of the moors.

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


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