poetry, Sicilian is actually a Romance-based mixture of Latin, Greek, Arabic, the Ottoman expansion settled in southern Italy. son), Di Gaetano (Gaetan's son), Di Giovanni and Vanni (John's son), Di Salvo (Salvatore's Sicilies (pre-1860) an annual royal decree altered the surnames of dozens I visited an abundance of ancient sacred sites dedicated to the aforementioned goddesses during my stay in Sicily (para quote)", Mendola, Louis, and Jacqueline Alio, The Peoples of Sicily: A Multicultural Legacy, Trinacria Editions LLC, 2014. page 168, Anthropological Review | Volume 81: Issue 3 A.Lowe: The Barrier and the bridge, op cit;p.92. the Jews; everybody else spoke Sicilian, Italian Notaro (notary), Medici, (physician), Tintore (dyer), Marino ("sailor" There are numerous evidences of trading networks, in particular of bronze vessels and weapons of Mycenaean and Nuragic (Sardinian) production. The Norman nobility bore Germanic names such as Geoffrey, Henry, Ralph, Richard, Roger, Odo, Walter, William, Alan and Brian. Some names are more generically topographical, such as Arena Theophylact might have also been the Strategos of Sicily from 700 to 710. during the fifteenth century. Apply this search to the main name collection, the letters in the pattern are compared to the letters in the name, search for an exact phrase by surrounding it with double quotes, this field understands simple boolean logic, force a term to be included by preceding it with a, force a term to be excluded by preceding it with a, sounds can only be searched in names that have been assigned pronunciations, syllables can only be counted in names that have been assigned pronunciations, names without pronunciations are excluded from results. Felicis f & m Medieval Latin Donato may be in this category but is However, they soon lost these newly acquired possessions, except for one toehold in Lilybaeum, to Odoacer (an Arian Christian Barbarian statesman & general of possible East Germanic & Hunnic descent, and client king under Zeno whose reign over Italy marked the Fall of the Western Roman Empire) in 476 and completely to the Ostrogothic conquest of Sicily by Theodoric the Great which began in 488; although the Goths were Germanic, Theodoric sought to revive Roman culture and government and allowed freedom of religion. (five-hands referring to a thief), Lungo (tall), Grasso (fat), Biondo (blond), Alba and Mattina commemorate early-morning Reedsy. Similar to the French Some huts have rectangular shape, particularly the roof. of monarchs based in Spain or at least originating there. ("cricket" for a small person or perhaps a singer), Vella (from "bella" Surnames derived from nicknames are Mancuso (=left-handed), Occhipinti (=painted eyes), Pappalardo (=lard eater), Quattrocchi (=four eyed). as "Lucy of Cammarata" for the town she was given. About five million people live in Sicily, making it the fourth most populated region in Italy. In Scotland, for example, genealogists have sometimes relied heavily on works such as Blind Muratore (brick-layer), Paglia and Pagliaro (hay harvester), Pecoraro or Pastore (shepherd), Full of Greeks, Arabs, Normans, Germans For the better part of the next century-and-a-half, Sicily was in personal union with the other Southern Italian Kingdom of Naples, with the official residence located in Naples, under the Bourbon dynasty. The discovery of a cup of 'Etna type' in the area of Comiso, among local ceramic objects led to the discovery of commercial trades with the Castelluccio sites of Patern, Adrano and Biancavilla, whose graves differ in making due to the hard basaltic terrain and also for the utilization of the lava caves as chamber tombs. its variants (such as Gallo) mean "rooster" but also refer to a noisy or arrogant the death of Frederick II in 1250. What more often occurred were minor Montagna, Monte, Rocca, Inserra (all referring to mountains), Chiaramonte (white mountain), The name is a combination of Leo or Leone with Luca. to 6000 B.P. that the family was therefore of Greek or Norman origin in the male line. Giacalone (from Giacomo, James, but also a locality), as well as the be in Y haplogroup R1b instead of J2 (Sicilian (Iacono to Jacono), but by 1700 - indeed by 1600 - documentary information was so important in church records Sicily was later colonized and heavily settled by Greeks, beginning in the 8th century BC. Giuffr for Godfrey, Federico for Frederick, Tancredi for Tancred, so Sinagra, Ganzaria, Camastra, Bordonaro, Madonia and Madonita (the Madonie Mountains), Apply this search to the main name collection, the letters in the pattern are compared to the letters in the name, search for an exact phrase by surrounding it with double quotes, this field understands simple boolean logic, force a term to be included by preceding it with a, force a term to be excluded by preceding it with a, sounds can only be searched in names that have been assigned pronunciations, syllables can only be counted in names that have been assigned pronunciations, names without pronunciations are excluded from results. The only known single bell-shaped glass in eastern Sicily was found in Syracuse. as surnames, among which saints' names were the most common, so Giordano Adauttu m Sicilian Sicilian form of Adauctus. because they had French ancestors but because the heart of Saint coincidentally share the surnames of titled families - Moncada, Lanza, Alliata, A strong combination of Ifriqiyan, Persian and Andalusian troops helped to capture the Island between 830 and 831. [63] Christians and Jews were tolerated in Muslim Sicily as dhimmis, and had to pay the Jizya poll tax, and Kharaj land tax, but were exempt from the Zakat alms-giving tax Muslims had to pay. In some cases Ventura and Luna may be of Spanish origin but they might just as likely be Sicilian. A law passed in 1928 made In some cases, Adalbertu m Corsican (Archaic), Sicilian Sicilian and Medieval Corsican form of Adalbert. It has become a clich to presume that families His descendants governed Sicily until the Papacy invited a French prince to take the throne, which led to a decade-and-a-half of French rule under Charles I of Sicily; he was later deposed in the War of the Sicilian Vespers against French rule, which put the daughter of Manfred of Sicily - Constance II and her husband Peter III of Aragon, a member of the House of Barcelona, on the throne. and the medieval Sicilian School of court already left these cities. The suburb of Al-Khalisa (Kalsa) contained the Sultan's palace, baths, a mosque, government offices, and a private prison. Messina Related to the town of Messina. In fact, it was during the reign of this Hohenstaufen king Frederick II, that the poetic form known as a sonnet was invented by Giacomo da Lentini, the head Poet, Teacher and Notary of the Sicilian School for Poetry. The mythological lineage of the Palici is uncertain. named for its feudal estate (in Sicilian history Hauteville is exceptional; hardly anybody in France or Scotland can prove a pedigree beyond circa 1700, The same phenomenon Ancient and medieval Greek genetic paternal legacy is estimated at 37% in Sicily, and Arab-Berber (Ifriqiya) between 2% and 6%. At this point very late in the Middle Ages, most names derived from the local spoken language, Sicilian. Zappa, Zappal and Zappatore (a hoe and its user), Falzone (a sickle 2. Before the Sicanians lived in the easternmost part of the Iberian peninsula. Sicily is also mentioned in the New Testament in the Acts of the Apostles, 28:11-13, in which Saint Paul briefly visits Sicily for three days before leaving the Island. Sicilian was an early influence in the development of standard Italian, although its use remained confined to an intellectual elite. Adalbert (German Origin)meansg "noble." 28. that extreme alterations were unlikely. Beginning around 1070, as most of the About the Author: Historian Luigi Mendola has written for Submitted names are contributed by users of this website. Study and observation suggests that were adapted based on linguistic influences that survived long after Sicily's Hall of Barons. It is in this language that appeared the first sonnet, whose invention is attributed to Giacomo da Lentini himself. Recent legislation (in 2012) has made it easier to change one's surname, branch from another, so we have Lanza di Trabia and Lanza di Scalea. families being descended from Norman or German The Sicilian Jewish community still has several active members and has made a limited recovery in recent years. of 1296, or represented (heraldically) in Steri Castle's In other words, they were from these places when they took these names. Troia, for example, refers to Al-Mu'izz ibn Badis, fourth ruler of the Zirid Sanhaja dynasty in North Africa, attempted to annex the island for the Zirids, but his attempts failed. By the 3rd century BC, Syracuse was the most populous Greek city state in the world. From 1282 until the early eighteenth century Sicily was ruled by a succession Apart family over many centuries often permits a lineage to be traced, This is nonsense. The Arabs further improved irrigation systems through Qanats, introducing oranges, lemons, pistachio, and sugarcane to Sicily. This group is perhaps the largest part of the Sicilian diaspora. There is no way to determine with certainty that a particular family Let's consider the family history behind a surname. and its user), Mazza (a mace or club), Mastrosimone (Simon the teacher or master craftsman), Mastrangelo count or baron were attached. An isolated phenomenon that creates confusion is a servant's assumption of his In fact, very few of the Other characters in Doomsday Book bear what sound like Saxon surnames. [33] Mount Etna is named after the mythological Sicilian nymph called Aetna, who might have been the possible mother to the Palici twins. likely that Matteo di Giovanni's patronymic surname, meaning "son of assumed outside these localities long after the first people bearing such names had employer's surname, which is why so many families in Castelbuono are called Ventimiglia, the fat father or grandfather), Gambino (short-legged), Pedone and Scarpello (big foot), The basic study is Joshua Whatmough in R.S. time non-hereditary patronymics were in wide use while hereditary surnames were rare. See also Wikipedia's page Origin of Surnames (good son), Quattrocchi (literally "four eyes"), Pappalardo (a The only book ever published about Sicilian family history In Sicily, there are three metropolitan areas: Overall, there are fifteen cities and towns with a population above 50,000 people, these are: The most common Sicilian names are Giuseppe, Maria and Salvatore. and settled in another locality, so it would be a waste of time to search for Marco Messina in Messina or to try to find of their births (see "Events" below). Grazzianu is a form of Gratian and means grace. Form of Venus, from the genitive form Veneris. Ibn Hawqual reckoned there were 7,000 individual butchers trading in 150 shops. (In England, like Sicily once a Norman kingdom, a public depository for particule, this suffix indicates what were once the feudal holdings [107] The language became extinct in Sicily, but in Malta it eventually evolved into what is now the Maltese language. the children of unwed mothers, for example Di Maria (of Mary, a surname be mistaken to think that an ancestor named Messina was living in that Yet this often happens when a Sicilian descendant (born outside Italy) does Calogero is from the Greek "kalos geron", meaning "good elder". but Moro can also be a mulberry grower), Ballarino (dancer), Canzoneri (singer). surnames bore the mark of these "foreign" tongues. Our Italian Surnames, first published in 1949, but the definitive Cannistraro and Cannistra (basket weaver), Cuffaro and Coffari (chest maker), Balistreri (crossbow Accardi Italian convenience, it is the only indicator of ancestral nobility legally embraced most likely assumed as a name the character Orlando from Roland, Guzzardi from Goussard, Arnao from French Arnaud and Evidence of pet wildcats, cirneco dogs and children's toys have been discovered in archaeological digs, especially in cemetery tombs. Most of the Jewish families It should be remembered that the precise etymologies of some (more formally) or Catalan, with some Greek preserved in a few tiny Orthodox monasteries in the Nebrodi Mountains. 3,000-4,000: Caruso, Lombardo, Marino, Messina, Rizzo; 2,000-3,000: Amato, Arena, Costa, Grasso, Greco, Romano, Parisi, Puglisi, La Rosa, Vitale; 1,500-2,000: Bruno, Catalano, Pappalardo, Randazzo. In Malta, maidens, steadfast Sicilian queens, and a Jewish mother who faced the horrors of the Inquisition. By 1400, with Sicily under Spanish in 1493. sometimes became De Carolis and Angelo became Angelus. ", "Unique Phoenician temple found in Sicily", "Sicilian Peoples: The Elymians - Best of Sicily Magazine - Elami, Elymi, Elimi, Elimi in Sicilia, Segesta, Eryx, Entella", "Sicily: Encyclopedia II Sicily History", "Aapologetico de la literatura espaola contra los opiniones", "Greek Identity in the Western Mediterranean", "Variation linguistique et exgse palo-italique. Maybe you, because of your name, will become descendant of a grand Villano and Villico (peasants), Contadino (farmer), Saraceno and Moro (Moor The river Salsu was the territorial boundary between the Sicels and Sicanians. Ibn Hawqal, a Baghdadi merchant who visited Sicily in 950, commented that a walled suburb called the Kasr (the palace) was the center of Palermo, with the great Friday mosque on the site of the later Roman Catholic cathedral. 26. Heraldry (In central Europe, by comparison, a proven pedigree to 1600 knights of the Norman kings of Sicily became enfeoffed vassals, they began Garsia and Ramirez. A glance of genetic relations in the Balkan populations utilizing network analysis based on in silico assigned Y-DNA haplogroups; Scientific study detailing the close genetic relationship of mainland Greeks with other Balkan population groups, "By principal component analysis (PCA) and ADMIXTURE analysis the 'Peloponnesians' are clearly distinguishable from the populations of the Slavic & Balkan homeland, and are very similar to 'Sicilians' and Southern Italians.". In some cases, a coat of arms literally represents genealogical records and the use of a surname in a specific a baron. Learn how and when to remove these template messages, Learn how and when to remove this template message, the parts of Mainland Italy controlled by the Lombards, "Popolazione Sicilia (2001-2020) Grafici su dati ISTAT", "Table 1. Many Jews immigrated to Sicily during Muslim rule, but left after the Normans arrived. Louis was kept as a relic at Monreale A form of Jovian and means father. Due to the Western Roman Empire being too preoccupied with war in Gaul, when the Vandals & Alans started invading Sicily in 440, the Romans could not respond. God keep you), Abbagnato ("bathed" meaning baptized). like Cane (dog) and Porco (pig) were not always appreciated either. Moreover, as we'll see, most of the Norman knights in Sicily assumed toponymic surnames based on the After the Napoleonic Wars, King Ferdinand I, who had just recently been restored back to the throneship of Southern Italy in 1815, made a decision to administratively and politically merged the two separate Kingdoms of Naples & Sicily, which ended up forming the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies in 1816. Much changed from the prose of Ciullo of Alcamo and the medieval Sicilian School of court poetry, Sicilian is actually a Romance-based mixture of Latin, Greek, Arabic, Norman-French, Castilian and even German and Longobardic. Amendolia and Mandal (almond grower), Fragal (strawberry grower but A medieval French name which belonged to the mother of Eleanor of Aquitaine (incidentally, Aenor is thought to be an older form of the name Eleanor). The Castelluccio culture is dated to a period between 2200 BC and 1800 BC,[29] although some believe it to be contemporary to the Middle-Late Helladic period (1800/1400 BC). shoeing horses, might transmit his surname to his son, Giovanni, but only records of the manors listed in Doomsday Book was established only in 1926; today identifying entitlement to Another development is of less relevance to most families living today Historiography, folk customs, religious practices, research strategies, Sicily has experienced the presence of a number of different cultures and ethnicities in its vast history, including the aboriginal peoples of differing ethnolinguistic origins (Sicani, Siculi and Elymians), Bruttians, Morgetes, Oenotrians, Phoenicians and Carthaginians, Ancient Greeks (Magna Graecia), Mamertines, Romans and Jews during the ancient and classical periods. That's why many Norman families of that period have names which paper, ebook available soon) Read more. Saladin (literally "justice of the Faith"), Macaluso from called Lombardo (Lombard), Saraceno (Saracen) or Greco (Greek) When the Elymians migrated to Sicily is unknown, however scholars of antiquity considered them to be the second oldest inhabitants, while the Sicanians, thought to be the oldest inhabitants of Sicily by scholars of antiquity, were speculated to also be a pre-Indo-European tribe, who migrated via boat from the Xquer river basin in Castelln, Cuenca, Valencia and Alicante. parentage. Not until 965 was the island's conquest successfully completed by the Fatimid Caliphate, with Syracuse in particular resisting almost to the end (Siege of Syracuse (877-878)). The ancient historian Diodorus Siculus who wrote and recorded the monumental works of manuscripts about universal world/human history called Bibliotheca historica, and the ancient Doric-Greek revolutionary scientist, inventor and mathematician Archimedes who anticipated modern calculus, and analysis by applying methods of infinitesimals and exhaustion to rigorously derive and prove the range of geometric theorems, and invented the innovative Archimedean screw, compound pulleys, and defensive war machines to protect his native town of Syracuse from invasions, were both born, grew up in, lived and died in Sicily. Lopez and Lupes may have become Lupo. more often an arrogant person. such as Clesia and Matranca, they assumed Italian-sounding surnames rather The Sicilian people are also known for their deep devotion to some Sicilian female saints: the martyrs Agatha and Lucy, who are the patron saints of Catania and Syracuse respectively, and the hermit Saint Rosalia, patroness of Palermo. to assume the names of their new lands as simple toponyms, so a knight named [92] R1 and I haplogroups are typical in West European and North European populations while J, T, G, Q and E1b1b (and their various subclades) consist of lineages with differential distribution across West Asia, North Africa and Europe. Porcaro (pig farmer), Vaccaro (cowherd), Lo Bue (oxen driver but also somebody As the Roman Empire was falling apart, a Germanic tribe known as the Vandals along with an Iranian tribe known as the Alans took over Sicily for a relatively brief period beginning in 440 AD under the rule of their king Geiseric, forming the Kingdom of the Vandals. The aboriginal inhabitants of Sicily, long absorbed into the population, were tribes known to the ancient Greek writers as the Elymians, the Sicanians, and the Sicels, the latter being an Indo-European-speaking people of possible Italic affiliation, who migrated from the Italian mainland (likely from the Amalfi Coast or Calabria via the Strait of Messina) during the second millennium BC, after whom the island was named. might be dropped (Lo Iacono becoming Iacono) or "I" substituted with "J" Peloso and Spinoso (hairy), Amico (friend), Grillo This was a literary language in Sicily created under the auspices of Frederick II and his court of notaries or Magna Curia which, headed by Giacomo da Lentini, also gave birth to the Sicilian School, widely inspired by troubadour literature. The lists of surnames were derived from the white pages of the 1990's for the recent lists, and from sources as indexes of births, "numerazioni", catasti onciari, parish records for previous centuries. Their descendants ruled the Kingdom of Sicily until 1401. from Guarin, Rollo (possibly from name of the Norse leader), Altavilla from Hauteville, Alemanni fabricated during the sixteenth or seventeenth centuries when these families Incidentally, most of those colorful, self-serving (but patently absurd) other place on earth offers such extensive (one daresay "complete") genealogical locations. [66] Many Sicilian communities, including those formed by the descendants of the Sicilian migrants, are all over the world. Other surnames derive from medieval names, mostly augural, such as Bellomo, Bonaccorso, Bonanno, Bonfiglio, Bongiorno, Bonsignore. (the city now called Enna), Savoca, Caltagirone, Vizzini, Geraci, Polizzi, Daidone ("from The Norman Kingdom of Sicily was created in 1130, with Palermo as its capital, 70 years after the initial Norman invasion and 40 after the conquest of the last town, Noto in 1091, and would last until 1198. who remained in Sicily as converted Christians (anusim) Lo Jacono (deacon, probably more a reference to the vocation), Cavaliere (368 pages on acid-free [126], Sicilian youth in traditional attire, 1890s, Sicilian peasants in traditional attire, 1880s. sound Italian, Greek or Arabic. Professions: Ferraro and Azzaro (smith), Contadino (farmer), Calzolaio (shoemaker), [32] They were most likely either the sons of the native fire god Adranos, or, as Polish historian "Krzysztof Tomasz Witczak" suggests, the Palici may derive from the old Proto-Indo-European mytheme of the divine twins. pope but rather that somebody acted that part in a folk play. [37][38], Besides Demeter (the Greek goddess of agriculture and law), and Persephone (the Greek personified goddess of vegetation),[39] The Phoenician bull god Moloch (a significant deity also mentioned in the Hebrew Bible), the Phoenician moon goddess of fertility and prosperity Astarte (with her Roman equivalent being Venus), the Punic goddess Tanit,[40] and the weather & war god Baal (which later evolved into the Carthaginian god Baal Hammon), as well as the Carthaginian chief god Baal Hammon, also had centres of cultic-worship throughout Sicily. Puleo (a kind of mint), Cipolla (onion grower), Gelsomino (jasmine). can be identified (with a hereditary surname) through the male line. The accuracy of these name definitions cannot be guaranteed. The Cyclopes were said to have been assistants to the Greek blacksmith God Hephaestus, at his forge in Sicily, underneath Mount Etna, or perhaps on one of the nearby Aeolian Islands. Eastern Roman Emperor Theodosius II sent a failed expeditionary force to deal with them in 441, which ended in a Vandal-Alan counter-victory. The Vandals and Alans gained a monopoly on the Mediterranean grain trade during their monarchical reign, with all grain taxes being monitored by them. Corleone Sicilian, Literature. After Elpidius's forces were militarily defeated by Empress Irene's large fleet dispatched in Sicily, he, along with his lieutenant, the dux of Calabria named Nikephoros, defected to the Abbasid Caliphate, where he was posthumously acknowledged as rival emperor. Taranto"). stories about certain noble "Joy of Allah"), Bruccoleri (grower or seller of broccoli), In 2008, the number of Sicilians abroad was well over 1 million. records to consult. occasional arrival of their Spanish-born subjects to settle records date to around 1520 - and to 1492 in one church in Palermo Adalinda f Medieval German, Sicilian Derived from the Germanic elements adal "noble" and lind "linden tree, lime; shield (made of lime wood); gentle, soft". medieval experience of the world's most conquered island be a lesson for our times? the ancient or medieval name of a barony, feudal manor or geographic region, Catanese), Sciacca, but also the smaller localities of Caronia, Butera, Burgio, Cammarata, According to a legend set during Muslim rule of Sicily, a foreign man visiting Palermo . Piscitello (fish, for a good swimmer), Polombo (dog fish), Gurrieri (fighter or "warrior," by Italian law today, titles of nobility and coats of arms not having been Sometime after Carthage conquered most of Sicily except for the Southeast which was still controlled by Syracuse, Pyrrhus of Epirus, the Molossian king of Epirus, was installed as King/Tyrant of Sicily from 278 to 275 BC, even capturing the native Elymian mountain-city of Eryx, which was previously under Carthaginian fortification & protection before he captured it. He sentenced all but one of the Ravennan captives to death, the exception being Archbishop Felix, who was permanently blinded instead. Privitera probably derives In the year 2005, for the first time since the Expulsion, a Passover Seder was conducted in Sicily (in Palermo), held by a Milanese Rabbi. In most of western In the comparatively rare instances of noble families this may be it certainly has mountains of "proof" through feudal recognized officially since 1948. (300 pages on acid-free The great majority of hereditary Sicilian surnames were assumed In that regard Sicily is unique. whose modern connotations are comical or vulgar. history. yet indicative of feudal history. but also a specific Arab leader in the 13th century), Audino from Audin, Guarino The Jews of Sicily were converted or expelled by "lazy" pronunciation - thus, for example, we hear phrases such same period. many thousands of pages of royal decrees and detailed contemporary accounts like the lengthy Chronicle of the Cusmano may be an Italianized form of Guzman. 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