Talk:Camorra

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Compared to its cousins mafia, sacra corona unita and ndrangheta it is more involved in piracy.

Piracy as in CDs or as in "Arr" and eye patches? -- Error 00:30, 8 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Probably as in "Arr"... Omg, btw, this is the future speaking, DVDs rock Cds.--84.217.144.214 01:42, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

According to the Italian Wikipedia, it's the 'Ndrangheta that's more related to the spanish Garduna, not the Camorra. The latter doesn't probably derive directly from Spain, but from Cagliari, Sardinia, where groups of local mercenaries were used by non-sardinian rulers (namely the Italian town of Pisa, Tuscany) to control the local population. These groups would probably already control local gambling, like the "Morra" game..."the morra" is translated "sa murra" in sardinian language. This is a hypothesis about the origins of the name. Letters "S" and "G" were largely confused one another at the time (i.e. the italian names Savino and Gavino are believed to have a common root), so when these mercenary groups were took to continental Italy (Naples) by the spanish house of Aragona, the names would possibly turn from "Samurra" to "gamurra"...then, later, it became Camorra. Just speculation, but could be useful to know. On the other hand, a 'Ndragheta myth says that three spanish knights, Osso, Mastrosso e Carcagnosso (the names are clearly made up in order to rhyme with each other, 'cause they were used in songs...the first one actually means "bone") came to Calabria, Italy, and founded an underworld society. Comment posted by | Nebo on May 25th, 2007