DANA

The Dana family came to England from France. The name is also found in the north of Italy and from the construction of the name was probably originally of Persian origin many centuries ago. The Persian definition of the name is Learned; a Learned Man. P'Larousse in his dictionnaire Francais speaks of Dana as a large city of Ancient Cappadocia, mentioned by Xenophon in his "Anabasis". It was probably the city which was later known under the name of Tyane.


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