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Type Surname
Usage Spanish
Meaning & History
Spanish: habitational name from any of the places called Salvatierra (literally ‘save land’ denoting a place of strategic importance).
Aragonese and Galician: Castilianized form of habitational names from any of the places called Salvaterra in Galicia and Salbatierra in Aragon (Spain) with identic meaning as above
Aragonese and Galician: Castilianized form of habitational names from any of the places called Salvaterra in Galicia and Salbatierra in Aragon (Spain) with identic meaning as above