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Ortu is widespread throughout Sardinia, it derives from a nickname originated from the Sardinian word ortu (vegetable garden) to indicate perhaps that the family owned a vegetable garden or that it sold its fruits. additions provided by Giuseppe Concas ORTU: s'ortu = the vegetable garden, from the Latin hortus. S'ortu de abis (the vegetable garden of bees) = is casiddus = hives> bee culture> beekeeping. Ortalissias in Logudorese; ortalitzias in Campidanese are vegetables, fruits of the garden. The word "ortu" is documented in all the medieval papers of the language and history of Sardinia. In Chapter XXXI of the Carta De Logu of Arborea (around 1384): Item Ordinamus, who, yes some person furait (steal) ortu de abis (hives, but we mean honey), and essereit dessu Rennu, paghit infra dies bindighi (within 15 days) de chi hat to be juygada (from the sentence), pro s'unu deghi (ten times as much); and yes beit d'Ecclesia, over de atera persona, paghit pro s'unu chimbi (five times as much) ... In the Condaghe of Santa Maria di Bonarcado, CSMB, 11th, 13th century, to the ch. 24. (it is a quarrel - kertu - for possession of the land) Ego Nicolaus prior de Bonarcadu facio recordatio de kertu ki fegi cun Guantine Formiga, ka bennit ipse assa billa de Miili Pikinnu et fraigait (took) domo et ortu et binnias (house, vegetable garden and vineyards) et arbores posuit etc. As a surname we find it among the signatories of the Peace of Eleonora, LPDE of 1388: Ortu (de) Acargio, jurato ville Seercela, * Seercela ... destroyed. Sarcela - Serzele. Partis de Montibus; Ortu Joanne, Bitiri villas, * Bitiri ... destroyed village: del Meylogu - Contrate de Ardar et Meylogu; Ortu (de) Francisco, majore ville Spina Alba, * Spina Alba ... destroyed ... Contract Partis Milis. In the Condaghe of San Nicola di Trullas, CSNT, XI, XIII century, we find the surname in the variant "Orto" - Orto Maria; to chapter 233 (unu tramutu = exchange of lands and servants - in Andronice - between Cossoine and Semestene): tramuti cun s'abate Bonifatio, su de Sacraria ... homines, et saltos et terra de agriles et binia etc. ... et isse deitimi (he gave me in exchange) Iorgi de Silogi intregu (for the entire service) et latus (half) de su fiiu, and Furatu Çolla intregu et Maria d'Orto intrega, ... We also have several toponyms, documented in the medieval papers of Sardinia, with the entry "Orto / u": Orto de Xidro, also called Piscina de Ortu, disappeared village, in the countryside of San Sperate. In the medieval period it belonged to the Curadorìa of Decimo, in the judicial kingdom of Càlari. In 1258 it became part of the overseas possessions of the Republic of Pisa. From 1324 it was a country of the Aragonese Catalan Kingdom of Sardinia, but a fief of the Pisan Gherardesca. After the withdrawal of the Pisans it returned to be part of the Kingdom of Sardinia, but already at the end of the century, the town was abandoned. Another medieval inhabited center was Orto Jacopo (in the countryside of Capoterra): in the medieval period it was part of the Curadorìa of Nora, in the judicial kingdom of Càlari. From 1258 it was a private possession of the Republic of Pisa, etc. etc. By the second half of the fourteenth century it was now abandoned. Currently the surname Ortu is present in 303 Italian Municipalities, of which 134 in Sardinia: Cagliari 287, Sassari 181, Milis 129, Guspini 117, Serramanna 108, Oristano 83, Orotelli 72, etc. In the peninsula it is Rome with 80 to have the highest number; follow: Milan 38, Turin 30, Genoa 22, etc.
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