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Orani is typically Sardinian, has a northern lineage in Ittiri, Sassari, Ossi and Alghero in the Sassari area, and a southern one in Cagliari and Quartu Sant'Elena in the Cagliari area, it should derive from the name of the Nuoro village of Orani. additions provided by Giuseppe Concas ORANI: de Orani, so it is in the medieval papers; coming from Orani, then. Orani (Orane in local diction) is a town of 3150 inhabitants in the province of Nuoro at 540 m asl According to some scholars, including F. Cesare Casula (Di. Sto. Sa.), the village takes its name from its Roman founder Oranius; according to the thesis of the canon Spano, it would be a pre-Roman village, whose name dates back to the root "hor" = light, house, fire, dwelling, as well as Orune and many other villages of central Sardinia pre-existing to the Roman domination, which begin the their name with the Semitic root "hor". In the medieval period Orani belonged to the Curadorìa of Orotelli, in the judicial kingdom of Torres. When this state ended in 1272, it was incorporated into the Giudicato of Arborea. In 1388 the representatives of Orani joined the Petition of Eleonora. In 1420 Orani passed to the Aragonese Catalan Kingdom of Sardinia. From 1420 to 1838, the year in which the ransom was ordered, for the abolition of feudalism, Orani had several rulers including the de Silva Fernandez, who in 1613, were elevated to the title of marquises of Orani. Of the surname Orani a trace remains in medieval documents. Among the signatories of the Peace of Eleonora, LPDE of 1388, we find a certain, De Orani Joanne, jurato villas Simagis de Margiani, * Simagis de Margiani: Simaxis of down (de jossu) - Contrate Campitani Simagis. In the Condaghe of San Michele di Salvennor, CSMS, 11th, 13th century, in chapter 256 we have: Gosantin De Orani (the first time, at 256/109); Gosantin Dorane (the second time, at 256/110); it is a donation (in Nurguso, a place near Bancali, in the countryside of Sassari), by Donna Justa De Athen at the Convent of San Michele -… de sa petra nigella que esta junto ala de Gosantin de Orani (at 109)… a termino de la Corte de Gosantin Dorane (to 110). We also find the surname in the Condaghe of St. Nicholas of Trullas, CSNT, 11th, 13th century, in chapter 290, De Orane Petru ... in an exchange of servants:
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