Carrión (surname)

Carrión was taken as surname by D. Álvaro de Carreño during the times of Alfonso II El Casto (791-842) after reclaiming the Spanish villa of Carrión de los Condes from the Moors by way of a "Trojan Horse" tactic.

See Carrion (disambiguation) for a list of famous people with this surname.

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