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Moscow is absolutely panitalian, Moschella is typically southern, Neapolitan, Avellino in particular and Salerno, Vibonese and Reggio, and from Messina and Catania, Moschelli and Moschello, almost unique, should be Sicilian and depend on an incorrect transcription of the previous one, Moscuzza is typically Syracusan, they should all derive, directly or through various types of hypocoristic forms, from nicknames, but it is also possible to derive from the medieval name Moscow, traces of these surnames of which we find already in 1172 in the Annales Pisani where we read: "Anno Domini MCLXXII , indictione v. Pisani tres galeas armaverunt, quarum capitanei et gomites Gallus Taliapagani and Iacobus quondam Rambotti Cerini, and Alberigus Pasce Mosca fuerunt;
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