Beltran Although Beltran is a spanish name (not very used today), there is also a surname very common in the Whole Spain, and there are some families Beltran in The Basque Country since long time ago, although are composed surnames like

Beltran de Bedia:in Bedia and Bedia, Bizkaia (a branche went to Leon)
Beltran de Gevara: in Ilarraza, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Araba
Beltran de Salazar: In Karkamo, Araba
Beltran de Heredia: In Askarza, Araba

There are or there were Also Beltran families in Azpeitia, and Urretxu in Gipuzkoa, and also in Navarra, there were branches of these families that passed to Toledo and Portugal.

There are a family Beltran-Alustiza, documented in 1380 in Azkoitia. There is a house named Beltranena (The one of Beltran) in Gipuzkoa, and other Beltraenea in Nabarra. Many of these branches has coat of arms

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ebeltranvega at yahoo dot com 15-Mar-2005 20:58 #1299 El apellido beltran, fue traido a america por distintos conquistadores, y se extendio desde la patagonia hasta norteamerica, en mexico especificamente fue Nuño Beltran de Guzman "The blody" quien conquisto gran parte del territorio nacional, fundo la ciudad de Guadalajara, algunas ciudades de nayarit, durango y en sinaloa fundo San Miguel de Colhuacan hoy culiacan, en honor al arcangel Miguel, a los territorios conquistados por Nuño Beltran se le conocio como El Virreynato de la Nueva Galicia, el origen es español pero existen en varios paises en españa y latinoamerica es BELTRAN, en Alemania es BERTRAM o BELTRAM en Italia BELTRANI, es un apellido bastante extendido existen pueblos enteros en donde la mayoria de las personas portan el apellido beltran. sino creen chequen la secciòn amarilla.
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