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Arcodia has stocks in the Messina area at San Marco d'Alunzio, Tortorici and Naso, in Maniace and Bronte in the Catania area and at Termini Imerese and Trabia in the Palermo area, Arcoleo is specific to Palermo, Arcolia, much more rare, has a small Troina lineage in the 'Ennese and in the Catanese, Arcudi is specific to Reggio Calabria, Arcudia, always Sicilian, is almost unique, these surnames should derive directly or through various dialectal modifications from Greek names originating from the ancient Greek word άρκτος arktos (bear), or from the Greek name Αρκούδι Arkoudi with the same meaning, in some cases could perhaps also derive from the name of the Greek island of Arkoudi, located between Lefkada and Ithaka, traces of this surname we find in 1500 with the theologian Petrus Arcudius, author of De Concordia Ecclesiae Occidentalis et Orientalis, and in 1600 with the bishop of Nusco (AV) Francesco Arcudio.
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