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Prota is specific to the area that includes the Neapolitan with Naples Siprattutto, San Giorgio a Cremano, Casalnuovo di Napoli, Casoria and Castellammare di Stabia, the Salerno with Agropoli and Battipaglia, the Potentino with Melfi, IL Foggiano, with Manfredonia and Mattinata, and Bari. Integrations provided by Stefano Ferrazzi the surname Prota could have a Slavic origin, presumably referable to Serbia: I say this because, in Serbian language, the term ' prota ' indicates the figure of the Orthodox priest, the so-called ' papas ' or ' Papasso '-the Serbia, in fact, hosts a large community of Orthodox Christians, which are the head of the Serbian Orthodox Church (the second oldest Slavic Orthodox church). In Serbia, for example, there is also the surname Protic, which, in fact, means precisely ' of the priest (Orthodox), of the Papas '-exactly like Papadopoulos in Greece or Prifti in Albania. For this reason, I think Prota could come from the territories of the former Yugoslavia (presumably from Serbia), considering that in Campania there seems to be a strong presence of Slavic surnames, italianized over the centuries-from what I have noticed, the area of Naples and the province has a good number of these surnames. Always in Campania, out of curiosity, a surname equally widespread is the priest, which counts more than a thousand presences in the province of Naples: I wonder, even if this surname can not sometimes reflect a translation of surnames such as Protic, Popovic, Papadopoulous, Prifti, etc, all from Balkan countries where the Orthodox religion has widely spread throughout history. Additions provided by Giovanni Vezzelli Prota is surname Lucano present at Melfi, Rionero in Vulture, Potenza and elsewhere, also Neapolitan and in Calabria; It comes from the surname Pròto, in turn from the Greek pròtos ' first '.
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