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It has a nucleus in Lombardy, especially between Milan and Bergamo and one in Sicily, especially in Trapani, should derive from the medieval name Poma of which we have an example in the diplomatic code of medieval Lombardy, in a Cartula dotis et sponsalicii Written in Pavia in 1184: "... In Urbe Papia. Poma, Zanebelli Quondam Ophilia, dedit in Dotem Lafranco, Filio Alberti cempellii, Medietatem Pro undivided de casa una lignaminis... ". Traces of this cognisisation we find in Almenno (BG) in 1625 in a deed endorsed by Firmus Poma, in Val Brembana in the second half of 1600 is vicar general a certain Octavius Poma. Famous character was in the Risorgimento Carlo Poma One of the martyrs of Belfiore.
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