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HERALDIC, ORIGIN AND HISTORY OF LAST NAME BATALLA.

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HERALDIC, ORIGIN AND HISTORY OF LAST NAME BATALLA.

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As a Catalan surname, it comes from the Latin, battalia, from battuere, which means "to win". It is rare and is distributed throughout Spain, it is appropriate according to Moll in his work "els llinatges cataláns" of the noun-battle- (from Latin battalia) applied in the middle ages as a nickname to courageous people for weapons. This surname appears already in the fourteenth century in Catalonia and Valencia. Thus among the first settlers of the Cinctorres locality, there was a Batalla family, in the census of the year 1396.
It is more prevalent in Philipines and there is more density in Uruguay nowdays.

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Location where my surname comes from