Melfi

Said to be related to the name of the small nearby river Melpes, Melphes, mentioned by Pliny. According to De Giovanni this name is from a Mediterranean (possibly Italic, like the Oenotrians) substrate *melf, *melp, of uncertain meaning, but compare Melpis and Melpum.


Burgio

From Arabic بُرْج (burj, “tower”) + -io.

A town and comune of Agrigento, Sicily, Italy


Furnari

Occupational surname from Late Latin furnārius (“baker”).


Cipango

From Early Mandarin 日本國／日本国 (Wade–Giles: Jih⁴-pên³-kuo², IPA: /ʐ̩⁵¹ pən²¹⁴⁻²¹ ku̯ɔ³⁵/, “nation of Japan”, literally “Land of the Rising Sun”). Compare Wu 日本 (⁸zeq-pen, IPA: /zəʔ¹¹ pən²³/) 國 /国 (⁷koq, IPA: /koʔ⁵⁵/)

zh-l

Los que tienen por gran cosmografo a Colon piensan que las llamó Indias por la India oriental, creyendo que quando descubrió las Indias iva buscando la isla Cipango

1556 [1553], “Perche si chiamorno Indie [Why it was called India]” (chapter 18), in Augustino de Cravaliz, transl., La historia generale delle Indie occidentali, translation of Historia general de las Indias by Francisco López de Gómara (in Early Modern Spanish), page 18:

Those who regard Columbus as a great cosmographer believe he called it India because of Eastern India, believing that—when he discovered India—he was searching for the isle of Japan


Tosi

A hamlet in Reggello, in the Metropolitan City of Florence, Tuscany, Italy


Badolato

Probably from Latin vadum (“ford”) + latus (“broad”).


Sinopoli

A town in Reggio Calabria, Calabria, Italy


Mangone

Most likely and in most cases, Mangone seems to represent a word that is widespread in the South of Italy for “left-handed” or “awkward.” In Calabria, it could also derive from the placename Mangone in the province of Cosenza, which in turn may represent L. mango, “slavetrader.” In some cases it could be related to the French surname Mangon, “butcher.” On the other hand, Michele Francipane in his Dizionario dei cognomi italiani (2005) connects Mangone unequivocally with It. mangano, "mangle," as it relates to the manufacture of cloth.


Brienza

A town in the province of Potenza, Basilicata, Italy


Saviano

A town in the province of Naples, Campania, Italy


Pollina

Possibly from Ancient Greek Ἀπολλωνία (Apollōnía)


Caccamo

A town and comune of the Metropolitan City of Palermo, Sicily, Italy


Patrimonio

From patrimonio, from Latin patrimonium (literally “estate”).

Patrimonio (a city and commune of Corsica, France)


Comiso

Comiso (a city in the province of Ragusa, Sicily, Italy)


Maniago

Friuli-Venezia Giulia
Friuli-Venezia Giulia#English

A town in the province of Pordenone, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy


Luserna

Borrowed from Venetan Łuxerna, from Cimbrian Lusérn, probably from a Middle High German word for “mountain pass”.

Trentino-Alto Adige
Trentino-Alto Adige#English

Luserna (a village in Trentino, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy)


Laiazzo

(historical) Former name of Yumurtalik, a port town in southeastern Turkey


Settecani

A village in Modena, Emilia-Romagna, Italy


Maranello

English: Maranello

Maranello (a small town in Modena, Emilia-Romagna, Italy); it is the home of the Ferrari racing car/race car factory and museum


Bugia

(obsolete) Bejaia (a city and commune of Bejaia province, Algeria)


Cinisi

Borrowed from Sicilian Cìnisi, from Arabic كَنِيسَة (kanīsa, “church”).


Lascari

Borrowed from Sicilian Làscari /Làschiri, from Arabic العَسْكَرِيّ (al-ʕaskariyy, “the army”), from the Arabic name مَدِينَة العَسْكَرِيّ (madīnat al-ʕaskariyy, “city of the army”). Doublet of ascaro.

der

العَسْكَرِيّ


Nicotera

A town in Vibo Valentia, Calabria, Italy


Mezzaselva

Mezzaselva (a frazione in the comune of Roana, Vicenza, Italy)


Macedonia del Nord

North Macedonia
North Macedonia#English:_Q221

Balkan Peninsula
Balkan Peninsula#English

Southeast Europe
Southeast Europe#English

North Macedonia (a country on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe)

Kosovo Macedonia del Nord Kossovo Macedonia del Nord Cossovo


Asia occidentale

Holonym: Asia


Berito

Berytus (an ancient city in modern Lebanon; modern Beirut)


Repubblica Islamica dell'Iran

Repubblica Islamica dell’Iran (canonical feminine)

Islamic Republic of Iran
Islamic Republic of Iran


Revello

A comune of the province of Cuneo, Piedmont, Italy


Bassa Austria

Calque of German Niederösterreich, By surface analysis, bassa + Austria.


Porto Vecchio

Porto Vecchio (a city and commune of the Corse-du-Sud department, Corsica)


Vinegia

Borrowed from Venetan, from Latin Venetia, from the pre-Roman substrate population of the Venetī, name of an ancient Italic people living in an area corresponding to the present-day North-East of Italy.

Puis s'en parti Antenor et Prians, à grant compaignie de gent, et se n'alerent en la marche de Trevise, non mie loing de Venise, et là firent une autre cité que est apelée Padoe

late 13ᵗʰ century [1260–1267], “Delli re di Francia [On the kings of France]” (chapter 39), in anonymous translator, Il tesoro [The treasure], translation of Livres dou Tresor by Brunetto Latini (in Old French); collected in Luigi Gaiter, editor, Il tesoro, volume 1, Bologna: Romagnoli, 1877, pages 106–107:

Then Antenor and Priam, along with many other people, left and went to the march of Treviso, where they built another city, which is called Padua, not far from Venice.

Il fu voir que au tens qe Baudoin estoit enperaor de Gostantinople, ce fu a les .mccl. anç, mesire Nicolao Pol, que pere messire March estoit, et messiere Mafeu Pol, que frere mesere Nicolau estoit, cesti deus freres estoient en la cité de Gostantinople, qui i estoient alés de Venese con leur merchandie

c. 1300 [c. 1298], Marco Polo et al., Milione [Million], translation of Le divisement dou monde by Marco Polo and Rustichello da Pisa (in Old French); republished as “Lor partita di Gostantinopoli [Their departure from Constantinople]” (chapter 2), in Antonio Lanza, editor, Il Milione di Marco Polo, L'Unità - Editori Riuniti, 1982:

It is true that, at the time that Baldwin was emperor of Constantinople—that was in the year of Christ 1250—sir Niccolò Polo (who was sir Marco's father) and his brother, sir Matteo Polo, these two brothers were in the city of Constantinople, having come from Venice with goods for trading

messomi io in cammino, di Vinegia partendomi ed andandomene per lo Borgo de’ greci e di quindi per lo reame del Garbo cavalcando e per Baldacca, pervenni in Parione

1349–1353, Giovanni Boccaccio, “Giornata sesta – Novella decima”, in Decameron; republished as Aldo Francesco Massera, editor, Il Decameron, Bari: Laterza, 1927:

Having gotten on my way, leaving Venice and passing through Borgo de' Greci, from which, riding through the kingdom of Algarve and Baldacca, I came to Parione

E le condizione de’ tempi, nostra infelicità, tengono disparsa e disseminata la nostra famiglia Alberta, come vedi, parte in Ponente, a Londra, Bruggia, Cologna, pochi in Italia, a Vinegia, a Genova, a Bologna, in Roma alcuni

1433–1440, Leon Battista Alberti, “Libro secondo [Second book]”, in I libri della famiglia; collected in Cecil Grayson, editor, Leon Battista Alberti - Opere volgari^(https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Opere_volgari_(Alberti)), volume 1, Bari: Gius. Laterza e figli, 1960, page 85:

And the circumstances of our time—to our chagrin—keep our family of the Alberti dispersed and scattered, as you see, part in the West, in London, Bruges, Cologne; a few in Italy, in Venice, in Genua, in Bologna, some in Rome

Per che vi fece l’apparecchio delle nozze ordinare bello e grande, e, invitatovi delle vicine contrade qualunque più onorato uomo v’era con le lor donne, e da Vinegia similmente, in suoni e canti e balli e solennissimi conviti l’un giorno appresso all’altro ne menava

1530, Pietro Bembo, “Capitolo II [Chapter 2]”, Libro primo [First book], in Gli Asolani [The Asolani]; collected in Carlo Dionisotti, editor, Prose della volgar lingua, Gli Asolani, Rime (I classici italiani TEA Tascabili), Milan: Editori Associati, 1989:

So she ordered a beautiful, great wedding to be prepared, and, having invited from the nearby parishes all the most honoured men there were, along with their women—and from Venice as well—she spent day after day in sounds, singing, dances, and most solemn banquets

[…] Tu sai, che invano
l’uccisor d’Alessandro asilo e scampo
sperò trovare in libera contrada.
Tuo brando il giunse entro Vinegia […]

1789, Vittorio Alfieri, “Atto primo”, in Don Garzia^(https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Don_Garzia_(Alfieri,_1946)), Scena prima; collected in Nicola Bruscoli, editor, Vittorio Alfieri - Tragedie^(https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Tragedie_(Alfieri,_1946),_Volume_II), volume 2, Bari: Laterza, 1946, page 356:

You know how Alessandro's murderer hoped in vain to find refuge and escape in a free country: your sword reached him in Venice

(archaic, poetic) Venice (the capital city of Veneto, Italy)


Tapso

From Latin Thapsus, Thapsos, from Ancient Greek Θάψος (Thápsos), from Phoenician.

Thapsus (Carthaginian and Roman port near present-day Bakalta, Tunisia)


Franchitti

English: Franchitti

Franchitti (a hamlet in Isernia, Molise, Italy)


Bregnano

A small town in the province of Como, Lombardy, Italy


Caslino d'Erba

A village in the province of Como, Lombardy, Italy


Fortunago

A small town in the province of Pavia, Lombardy, Italy


Piubega

A small town in the province of Mantova, Lombardy, Italy


Savigliano

A town in the province of Cuneo, Piedmont, Italy


Piperno

From Latin Privernum. Doublet of Priverno.

former name of Priverno, a town in Lazio, Italy


Fabro

The occupational surname is from fabro, variant of fabbro (“smith”).


Seminara

A town in Reggio Calabria, Calabria, Italy


Russi

The surname is probably a southern variant of Rossi.

A town in Ravenna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy


Nurra

A geographical region in the northwest of Sardinia, Italy


Montemagno

From monte (“mountain, hill”) + magno (“great, mighty”).


Siddi

A town in South Sardinia, Sardinia, Italy


Vermiglio

A town in Trento, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy


Spinazzola

A town in Barletta-Andria-Trani, Apulia, Italy


Pizzoni

A town in Vibo Valentia, Calabria, Italy


Cargese

Corsican: Carghjesi, Carghjese

French: Cargèse

Borrowed from Greek Καργκέζε (Kargkéze).

A city and commune of Corse-du-Sud, Corsica, France


Cernobyl

Borrowed from Russian Черно́быль (Černóbylʹ).

bor+

Chernobyl (an abandoned city in Kiev Oblast, Ukraine, site of a major 1986 nuclear accident)


Nagorno Karabakh

Adaptation of Russian Наго́рный Караба́х (Nagórnyj Karabáx, literally “Mountainous Karabakh”).

der

Наго́рный Караба́х

Nagorno-Karabakh (a region of the South Caucasus)


Atrace

From Latin Atrax, from Ancient Greek Ἄτραξ (Átrax).


Santa Maria degli Angeli

Spanish: Los Ángeles

English: Los Angeles

A village near Assisi, Italy, famed for the indulgence granted at its Portiuncula chapel on 1 & 2 August


Monfalcone

From monte (“mountain”) + falcone (“falcon”).


Berchidda

Borrowed from Sardinian, from Latin Berquilla.

Berchidda (a city and commune of the province of Sassari, Sardinia, Italy)


Borsoi

A village in the province of Belluno, Veneto, Italy


Lucciana

Lucciana (a city and commune of the department of Haute-Corse, Corsica)


Roccabruna-Capo Martino

Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur#English

Roquebrune-Cap-Martin (a city and commune of Alpes-Maritimes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France)


San Fiorenzo

Saint-Florent (a town and commune of Haute-Corse, Corsica, France)


Morosaglia

Morosaglia (a town and commune of Haute-Corse, Corsica, France)


Bagnaia

A village in the province of Viterbo, Lazio, Italy


Mugello

A region of Tuscany, Italy, also the namesake of the Autodromo Internazionale del Mugello.


Costamagna

A village in the province of Cuneo, Piedmont, Italy


Crosa

A village in the province of Biella, Piedmont, Italy


Custoza

Borrowed from Venetan Custoxa, from Latin custōdia (“protection, guardianship”).

A town in the province of Verona, Veneto, Italy


Belsito

From bel (“nice, beautiful”) + sito (“place, location, site”).

com

A town in the province of Cosenza, Calabria, Italy


Sersale

A town in the province of Catanzaro, Calabria, Italy


Sciullo

A village in the province of L'Aquila, Abruzzo, Italy


Stroppiana

A town in the province of Vercelli, Piedmont, Italy


Maggiora

A village in the province of Novara, Piedmont, Italy


Varago

A village in the province of Treviso, Veneto, Italy


Camporeale

A village in the province of Palermo, Sicily, Italy


Futani

Futani (a town and commune of the province of Salerno, Campania, Italy)


Faggiano

A town in the province of Taranto, Apulia, Italy


Colciago

A small village in the province of Como, Lombardy, Italy


Accadia

A village in the province of Foggia, Apulia, Italy


Auletta

A village in the province of Salerno, Campania, Italy


Gambatesa

From gamba (“leg”) + tesa (“outstretched”).

A town in the province of Campobasso, Molise, Italy


Uscio

A comune in the Metropolitan City of Genoa, Liguria, Italy


Visciano

A town in the province of Naples, Campania, Italy


Stenico

A town in the province of Trento, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy


Cassaro

Adapted from the toponym U Càssaru, from Sicilian càssaru; akin to cassero (“castle; keep, donjon”) and the older variant cassaro.

A town in the province of Syracuse, Sicily, Italy


Balocco

A village in the province of Vercelli, Piedmont, Italy


Asia meridionale

Holonym: Asia


Asia orientale

Holonym: Asia

Near-synonym: Estremo Oriente


Giovinazzo

A town in the province of Bari, Apulia, Italy


Fraioli

A village in the province of Frosinone, Lazio, Italy


Capalbio

Likely from Capo d'Alveo (literally “head of riverbed”), from the name of a medieval castle built near a river.
Other theories derive it from Latin Caput Album (literally “white head”) or Campus Albus (literally “white field”), due to the presence of white alabaster in the area.

inh

A town and municipality of Grosseto, Tuscany, Italy


Grisolia

A town in the province of Cosenza, Calabria, Italy


Copertino

English: Cupertino


Oga

→ English: Oga

Oga: A frazione in Valdisotto, Sondrio, Lombardy, Italy


Bassi Pirenei

Basses-Pyrénées (a department of France)


Pirenei Atlantici

Pyrénées-Atlantiques (a department of France)


Alti Pirenei

Hautes-Pyrénées (a department of France)


Alpi Marittime

Alpes-Maritimes (a department of France)


Venegia

Quant la cité de Troie fu destruite […] il avint que Prians li juenes, qui fu filz de la seror au roi Prian de Troie, entre lui et Antenor, s'en alerent par mer o tout .xiiijᵐ. homes à armes, tant que il arriverent là où est ore la cité de Venise

late 13ᵗʰ century [1260–1267], “Delli re di Francia [On the kings of France]” (chapter 39), in anonymous translator, Il tesoro [The treasure], translation of Livres dou Tresor by Brunetto Latini (in Old French); collected in Luigi Gaiter, editor, Il tesoro, volume 1, Bologna: Romagnoli, 1877, page 106:

When the city of Troy was destroyed, so it occurred that Priam—young son of king of Troy Priam's sister—and another potentate named Antenor, traveled so far through sea and through land, with fourteen-thousand armed people, that they arrived there, where the city of Venice now lies.

messer Masio Visconte de Melano lo chiamò podestà di Melano; et accettato l’officio venne per mare in fine a Venegia; e quando volse andare da Venegia a Padova, quelli che lo perseguitavano l’ucciseno nella valle di Doriaco

1385–1396, Francesco di Bartolo, “Canto Ⅴ [Canto 5]”, in Commento di Francesco da Buti sopra la Divina commedia di Dante Allighieri [Commentary of Francesco da Buti on Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy]^(https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Commedia_(Buti)), C. V— v. 64-84.; republished, Pisa: Fratelli Nistri, 1858, page 111:

Sir Masio, viscount of Milan, appointed him [Iacopo del Cassaro] as podesta of Milan. And, [having] accepted the mandate, he finally came by sea to Venice, and, when he decided to go from Venice to Padua, his persecutors murdered him in the valley of Doriaco

Fu il Palma molto più nei colori unito, sfumato e paziente, che gagliardo nel disegno, e quegli maneggiò con grazia, pulitezza grandissima, come si vede in Venegia in molti quadri e ritratti che fece a diversi gentiluomini

1568, Giorgio Vasari, “Iacopo Palma e Lorenzo Lotto”, in Le vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori [The lives of the most excellent painters, sculptors, and architects], 2ndⁿᵈ expanded and revised edition, Florence: Giunti:

Palma was a lot more solid, shaded, and patient with colors, than energetic with drawing, and he handled the former with the greatest grace and tidiness, as one can see in Venice, in many paintings and portraits he made for several gentlemen

(archaic, poetic) Alternative form of Vinegia; Venice (the capital city of Veneto, Italy)


Matrice

[…] Alfonſo la recuperatione de la Marcha cõ ogni ſua induﬅria, e forza li promiſe, e Ciuita Ducata, Cumulo e la Matrice, terre di Abruzzo, à la chieſa reﬅitui.

a. 1504, Pandolfo Collenuccio, “Libro sesto [Sixth book]”, in Compendio delle historie del Regno di Napoli [Summary of the history of the Kingdom of Naples], Venice, published 1548, page 180:

Alfonso promised him the reclamation of the march through all of his skill and strength, and gave Civita, Ducata, Accumoli, and Amatrice—lands of Abruzzo—back to the church.

Superius quīntō mīliāriō pariter ad Troentī dexteram est Accumulum nōbile oppidum et item superius sub Troentī fonte est Amātrix oppidum

1542 [1474], “Regione V - La marca d'Ancona chiamata dagli antichi Piceno [Region 5 - The march of Ancona, called Picenum by the ancients]”, in Lucio Fauno, transl., Italia illustrata [Illustrated Italy], translation of Italia illūstrāta by Flavio Biondo (in Renaissance Latin), page 131; collected in Roma ristaurata et Italia illustrata, Venice, 1542:

Going up for five miles, still on the right bank of the Tronto, is another good land called Accumoli, and higher up, under where the Tronto begins, is the land [of] Amatrice

Mandarono Guido di Paolo Monteſperelli al Patriarca Vitelleſco […] a eſcuſarſi della paſſata di Franceſco Piccinino per il loro territorio; la partita del quale dal Contado di Siena, & il paſſaggio, ch’ei fece per lo Perugino, fu per andare a ſoccorrere la Matrice, ch’era aſſediata da Antognuccio dall’Aquila

1569–1594, Pompeo Pellini, “Libro duodecimo [Twelfth book]”, in Dell'historia di Perugia [On the history of Perugia], volume 2, Venice: Gio. Giacomo Hertz, published 1664, page 396:

They sent Guido di Paolo Montesperelli to patriarch Vitelleschi, to apologize for the passage through their territory of Francesco Piccinino, whose departure from the county of Siena, and the passage he made through the lands of Perugia, was in order to give aid to Amatrice, which was being besieged by Antonuccio of L'Aquila

ricorſe all’ajuto del Duca di Milano, e lo pregò per lettere, e per ambaſciate a far deviare le mire del Conte Franceſco Sforza. Coﬅui conquiﬅata Norcia, entrò nel Reame per la via d’Abruzzo, nel Giugno accordò la Matrice, ed Acumoli, ed altre Terre.

1758–1778, Anton Ludovico Antinori, chapter II (chapter 2), in Raccolta di memorie istoriche delle tre province degli Abbruzzi [Collection of historical memoirs of the three provinces of Abruzzo], volume 3, Naples: Giuseppe Campo, published 1782, Continuano le ostilità tra i due re [Hostilities between the two kings continue] (section 22), page 365:

He resorted to the help of the Duke of Milan, and begged him—through letters and messages—to drive Count Francesco Sforza elsewhere. He [Sforza], having conquered Norcia, entered the realm through Abruzzo; in June, he reconciled Amatrice, and Accumoli, and other lands.

Obsolete form of Amatrice (“A small town in Rieti, Lazio”), usually used absolutely as la Matrice


Fontanarosa

From fontana (“fountain”) + rosa (“rose; pink”).

com

A town in the province of Avellino, Campania, Italy


Gamberale

A town in the province of Chieti, Abruzzo, Italy


Aliano

A town in the province of Matera, Basilicata, Italy


Carmagnola

→ French: carmagnole


Stintino

PIE word
 *h₁én
Borrowed from Sassarese Isthintinu, from isthintinu (“intestine”), from Classical Latin intestīnum (“entrails, innards”), nominalization of intestīnus (“internal”, adjective).

inh

A city and commune of the province of Sassari, Sardinia, Italy


Scanno

By folk etymology, often made to derive from Latin scamnum (“stool”).


Genga

A village in the province of Ancona, Marche, Italy


Cisternino

A town in the province of Brindisi, Apulia, Italy


Arese

A town in the province of Milan, Lombardy, Italy


Torre del Greco

Torre del Greco (a town and comune of Naples, Campania)


Torre Annunziata

Literally, “Tower [of] Our Lady of the Annunciation”.

lit

Torre Annunziata
Torre Annunziata#English

Torre Annunziata (a town and comune of Naples, Campania)


silotese

From Sylheti ꠍꠤꠟꠐ (síloṭo) or Bengali সিলট (śiloṭ) + -ese. Surface analysis Sylhet + -ese.


Lavagna

A town in the province of Genoa, Liguria, Italy


Lenne

A toponym for rivers and settlements in Germany


Gandino

→ English: Gandino

Gandino (a comune of Bergamo, Lombardy, Italy)

it:Gandellino
it:Gandosso
it:provincia di Bergamo
province of Bergamo


Strassoldo

A village in the province of Udine, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy


Caltavuturo

A town in the province of Palermo, Sicily, Italy


Scordia

A town in the province of Catania, Sicily, Italy


Bertipaglia

A village in the province of Padova, Veneto, Italy


Aprigliano

A village in the province of Cosenza, Calabria, Italy


Quindici

A village in the province of Avellino, Campania, Italy


Stigliano

A village in the province of Matera, Basilicata, Italy


Campolattaro

A town in the province of Benevento, Campania, Italy


Calascibetta

Calascibetta (a small town in the province of Enna, Sicily, Italy)


Oneta

Ultimately from the plural form of Latin *alnetus (“alder forest”), from alnus (“alder”).

A village in the province of Bergamo, Lombardy, Italy


Summonte

From Latin sub (“under”) + montem, accusative of mōns (“mountain”).

A town in the province of Avellino, Campania, Italy


Appenzello Esterno

Appenzell Outer Rhodes
Appenzell Outer Rhodes#English

Appenzell Outer Rhodes (a canton of Switzerland)


Appenzello Interno

Appenzell Inner Rhodes
Appenzell Inner Rhodes#English

Appenzell Inner Rhodes (a canton of Switzerland)


Basilea Campagna

Basel-Landschaft (a canton of Switzerland)


Genivolta

A village in the province of Cremona, Lombardy, Italy


Positano

A village in the province of Salerno, Campania, Italy


Loreggia

A town in the province of Padua, Veneto, Italy


Firenzuola

A town in the province of Florence, Tuscany, Italy


Tortima

A village in the province of Vicenza, Veneto, Italy


Flecchia

A village in the province of Biella, Piedmont, Italy


Sardagna

A village in the province of Trento, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy


Galbusera

A village in the province of Lecco, Lombardy, Italy


Zocca

A town in the province of Modena, Emilia-Romagna, Italy


Sperlinga

A village in the province of Enna, Sicily, Italy


Solimbergo

A village in the province of Pordenone, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy


Melpignano

A village in the province of Lecce, Apulia, Italy


Venezziola

it-noun

Venezziola f (plural Venezziole, diminutive Venezziolétta)

Venezziole (plural)
Venezziolétta (diminutive)

From Venezia + -ola (diminutive suffix).


Leonforte

Compound of leone (“lion”) + forte (“strong”), in tribute of the founder's coat of arms, a lion holding a banner.

com+

A town in the province of Enna, Sicily, Italy


Farnocchia

A village in the province of Lucca, Tuscany, Italy


Putignano

A town in the province of Bari, Apulia, Italy


Roccabianca

Compound of rocca (“fortress, stronghold”) + bianca (“white”).

A town in the province of Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italy


Sommacampagna

Compound of somma (“highest, greatest”) + campagna (“countryside; farmland”).

A town in the province of Verona, Veneto, Italy


Leverano

A town in the province of Lecce, Apulia, Italy


Tramutola

A village in the province of Potenza, Basilicata, Italy