Lesina
Gender: Girl
Origin: Italian place name
Popularity: Not in the U.S. top 1,000 names
Lesina Meaning and Origin
Lesina is a beautiful romantic name with a classical feel. Lesina is a girl’s place name of Italian origin. Lesina (less-e-nah) is an Italian town in the province of Foggia, in the Apulia region of southeast Italy. It is also an island in the Adriatic Sea, forming part of Dalmatia, Austria. In 385 B.C., a Greek colony built a city on the site of the present Lesina, the island was betrayed to the Romans by Demetrius and throughout the middle ages, it remained a Slavonic community. The name appears in old documents as Lisna, Lesna, or Lyesena, “wooded” derived from the Slavonic lyes, ” forest”.
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