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Specific to the area between Milan and Pavia, it derives from a variation of the nickname originated from the archaic dialectal word majavaca (who eats cows). It was a noble Milanese family in the Visconti and Sforza eras, it owned a fiefdom in the area of Binasco that then extended to the territory of Locate Triulz; many important personalities, such as feudal captains, mayor and Vicars General were Migliavacca. additions provided by Giovanni Vezzelli Migliavacca, in addition to the hypothesis of 'the one who eats cow meat', there is a second one by O. Lurati: it would be a "playful nickname" documented as early as 1220. It would have been formed by a 'alteration of the imperative "muglia" (transformed into "miles"), a local voice that stands for "mungi".
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