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Present throughout the whole of Italy, with important stocks in the south, especially in Puglia and Lazio. The lineage of the Borja or Borgia, of Spanish origin, whose name derives from the Arabic term burj (tower), was already in the 1400s among the most noble and powerful of Aragon, an ancient city near Zaragoza, the ancient Bursao, called Burija of the Arabs (city of the tower) bears their name and from that toponym some Italian stocks can be derived. This family gave birth to Popes, such as Callistus III and Alexander VI, to Cardinals and princes like Cesare Borgia, known as Valentino, famously was Lucrezia Borgia (1480-1519) daughter of Pope Alexander VI, this family belongs also Francisco de Borja (1510 - 1572) who was declared a saint by Clement X in 1671. additions provided by Giovanni Vezzelli Borgia is the Italianization of the Spanish surname Borja. The surname could however also derive from the homonymous toponym in the province of Catanzaro, founded on the initiative of Prince Borgia of Aragon. additions provided by Daniele Borghini The surname Borgia, in some specific cases, may be the Italianization of the Spanish surname "Borja". The Borja surname in Spain has more distinct lineages and more derivations, the famous Italian family of Spanish origin of the Borgias derived from one of these strains, to be precise from a Valencian-Catalan family of ancient Aragonese origins (Borja is toponym in Aragon). Furthermore, in southern Italy, especially in Sicily (Piana degli Albanesi, Contessa Entellina), Borgia is also the Italianization of a Greek-Albanian surname ("Three millennia of linguistic history of Sicily": proceedings of the Conference of the Italian Society of Glottology, Palermo , 1983). However, since the surname Borgia is widespread in practically all of Italy with as many as 1163 (White Pages of 2010), it cannot be excluded that for the majority of the surnames Borgia present in Italy (hardly linked to the famous Borgia family of Valencian-Catalan origin that should be extinguished) there are other explanations, besides the Spanish and the Greek-Albanian ones. In my humble opinion, Borgia in most cases in Italy has an etymological link with the Latin word "borgus", which generated the surnames Burgisi, Borghi, Borghetti, Borghese, Borgese.
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