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Matranca and Matrango are practically unique, Matranga has a nucleus in Palermo and in Palermo in Piana Degli Albanesi and Monreale and a stock in the Cosenza area in San Demetrio Corone. additions provided by Stefano Ferrazzi The origin of these surnames is to be found in various Italianizations of the Albanian surname Matrënga, belonging to the large group of surnames arbëresh (Albanian-Italian) present in southern Italy: in fact, in fact, the surname Matranga has its epicenter in Piana degli Albanesi, although it is widespread throughout the Palermo area. From the historical point of view, however, it should be remembered that the orthodox cleric Luca Matranga (1567-1619, also known as Lekë Matrënga) worked in Piana degli Albanesi, who is remembered above all for his work Embsuame e krështerë, a translation from the Italian to the Albanian Christian Doctrine of the Jesuit Ladesma (the work, published in 1592, officially began the arbëreshë literature).
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