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Definitely Sardinian, it could have a stock also in Salento, it should derive from dialectal nicknames linked to the characteristic of the founder of being left-handed. additions provided by Giuseppe Concas Manca: sa manu 'e manca (the left hand). From the Latin it is missing. Mancòni, mankìnu (manchìnu) and mànkinu (mànchinu), mancòsu are left-handed. Manca is a surname present throughout Italy, in 944 Municipalities, with greater diffusion in Sardinia. Let us not forget that it is not a Sardinian surname only, because we find it, even in ancient times in Puglia. In Sardinia it is present in 267 Municipalities out of 377. In the ancient maps of Sardinia, among the signatories of the Peace of Eleonora of 1388 there are 8 Manca and 22 Mancha, of which we recall: Manca Nicolao, jurato (security guard, collaborator of the majore) ville Seneghe and Manca Toisco, majore (mayor) ville Seneghe; Mancha Juliano, majore villas Pau (Partis de Montibus), Mancha Matheo, villas Sellùri (Seddòri, Sanluri), Mancha Nicolao, villas Sellùri, Mancha Perinus (Pierino), villas Sasseri, Mancha Peritono (Pierantonio), villas Gonnos de Codina. In the * CSMB (Condaghe of SM de Bonarcado) 10 Manca and a Manka are mentioned, including: Manca Comita prete di Basilay (?) (198), Manca Gunnari, priest of Bins (30); in the * CSNT (Condaghe di SN di Trullas), 3 Manca are mentioned (in a land sale): Gosantine Manca and the sons Iusta and Comita; in the Condaghe of St. Peter of Silki, Manca Jorgia, wife of Tusu Gosantine, is mentioned in a donation of servants, * CSPS (28th).
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