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Surname Etymology and Meaning of ALBANESE

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Southern Italian: ethnic name from albanese ‘(an) Albanian’, applied to someone from Albania or from one of the Albanian settlements in Abruzzo, Apulia, Campania, and Sicily.

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names (2003)