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Melone has a strain in Alghero (SS) and a large nucleus in the area that includes Lazio, Abruzzo and Campania, Meloni, very common, is widespread throughout central-northern Italy and in Sardinia, should derive from the word melon-i, traces of this surname are found in Pozzomaggiore (SS) in 1400 and in Ghedi (BS) in a deed of donation with which the noble Ottaviano Gaifami of Brescia adopts a certain Luigi Meloni born in 1530 and appoints him his heir. additions provided by Giuseppe Concas the Melon and Melons of Sardinia derive from the name of the melon fruit that derives from the late Latin melonis. In many regions of Italy it is called popone, from the Latin peponis or from the Greek peponos. It is a surname widespread throughout Sardinia, in 245 Municipalities out of 377.
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