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Modafferi
Coat of arms of family Modafferi Nobles: Italia
Nobility: Nobili dei Baroni - Nobili
Language of the text: Italiano

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MODAFFERI

Specific of the Reggio area, it should derive from the Saracen name Mudaffar brought for example by the Saracen king Al-Mudaffar, which in 1000 constitutes the largest Arab library in Spain, some kings of Syria dated 1400/1500 called Al-Mudaffar. hypotheses provided by A. Mazzuca Giuseppe Pensabene, in his philological notes on the ancient religious references in the Reggio territory, highlights that the province of Reggio Calabria was always a Christian land, therefore an Islamic derivation remains incomprehensible.

Bibliographic source "L'origine dei cognomi Italianim storia ed etimologia" di E. Rossoni disponibile online su: https://archive.org/


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