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Borlandi and Burlandi are extremely rare, Borlando, very rare, would seem typical of the Novara area, Burlando, definitely the most widespread, would seem to be specific to Genoa, where it is widely present, with small stocks in the Turin area and in the Alessandria area, traces of these surnames are in the Canavese area in Piedmont since the second half of the fifteenth century, when we find a de la Facia alias Burlandus, then continued as Burlandus, which seems to originate from a nickname connected to the profession of the founder, probably a hunter, who caught the foxes using burelle (traps ), but the first traces of this surname are with the writer Hadrianus Burlandus, who in 869 writes, in Bressanone, of a red rain lasting three days, the historical traces in Genoa date back to the times of the first Crusade.
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