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Where does Caceres"" come from?"
RickieC Posted: 01.08.2004, 10:00
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last visit: 09.11.05 		Hi, my family comes from Peru, and I was rooting around the Net to see if I could find out what our surname means. It seems that the town of C?ceres (in Extremadura, Spain) used to be called "Hinz Qazris" by the Arabs, but no-one can tell me what this means in Arabic.

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John Ross Posted: 01.08.2004, 11:17



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last visit: 25.08.08 		That's because it's only half Arabic. "Hinz" means "wall" (city wall) in Arabic, but "Qazris" is a kind of Arabic form of the Latin word "castris" from "castro" (town or fort). So the two together mean "walled town."

It ain't that I'm that expert as a linguist - I found this thread in Spanish: http://boards4.melodysoft.com/app?ID=raices2000&msg=391.
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