Ortega is a Spanish surname. In the 9th century a Saint Raymundo Ortega of Bejar was recorded to be in Salamanca, Spain. A baptismal record in 1570 records a de Ortega from the village of Ortega. There were several villages of this name in Spain. The toponym derives from Latin urtica, meaning nettle. Some of the Ortega spelling variants are: Ortega, Ortego, de Ortega, Ortegada, Ortegal, Hortega, Ortiga, Ortigueda, Ortigueira, Ortigosa, Orreaga, etc. A cognate surname in Italian is Ortica, in Romanian UrzicÄ, in French Ortie, all from Latin urtica.
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YONGSAN GARRISON, South Korea â U.S. Forces Koreaâs major communication command has completed an annual external evaluation, and now awaits results from Fort Meade, Md., exercise evaluators. According to early returns, the EXEVAL â which evaluates how the 1st Signal Brigade would transition from peacetime to wartime operations â went well. âI saw a lot of improvements in the short time we were out there,â said Col. Timothy OâHara, 1st Signalâs deputy commander and lead exercise controller, in an Army news release.