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In Czech are several lastnames derivated from name of the towns or villages.
There could be:
1) in the form of noun:
Pražák = Prague dweller
Kateřiňák = Kateřinice dweller
etc.
2) in the form of adjectivve:
Bohumínský = from Bohumín
Bordovský = from Bordovice
etc.
The lastnames usually were originated before the the time when the oldest preserved church records appeared
(in our country in 17th century, generally) but in some areas some of the lastnames were established later in 17th-18th centuries.
During my genealogical work I met sometimes the case that some persons was born in some village (for example Kateřinice) with a
non-place lastname but when he moved to neighbour village, locals called him Kateřiňák and in next documents were written
wit this new lastname - and their descendants, too
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