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Troy has an Apulian strain, especially in the Barese, one of the provinces of Rome and Frosinone, one in Naples, one in the Potentino and a large nucleus in Sicily in Palermo and between Catania and Syracuse, Troja, much rarer, has a stump in the Palermo, one in the Messina And one in Syracuse, Troya is absolutely rare, in some cases may derive from the name Troy, country of the Foggian, it is also possible to derive from nicknames that have a connection with the word Troy (SOW). Additions provided by Giovanni Vezzelli Troia is surname Lucano but also Calabrese and in Salento, Johannes de Troia in 1266 in Bari (Cod. Bar. XIII) = Common Troy in the province of Foggia. G. Rohlfs, Historical Dictionary of surnames in Lucania 1985.
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