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Loprete is quite rare, it seems to have, besides the Calabrian nucleus, also a Brindisi strain, Lo Prete, always very rare, besides the Calabrian nucleus, it also has a strain in the Foggia area, they should derive from nicknames related to the word priest. (see Prete), but according to a very concrete hypothesis they would derive from the Albanian surname Prifti which spread in Greece in the 1500s and then arrived there in Italy.
Priest is typical of the south, with an important strain in the Salento Peninsula, one in the Cosentino, Neapolitan and Salerno and in the province of Rome, there are also strains, probably secondary to the north, priests is specific to the north, Lombardy and Emilia in particular, derives From being the ancestor to the family of a priest.
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