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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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    Among Czechs are also a lot of lastnames refering about another nations, mostly the neighbour ones:
    Němec = German
    Polák = Pole
    Slovák
    Uher (archaic term) = Hungarian

    There are also some lastnames refering about non-neighbour nations
    Charvát (archaic term) = Croat
    Vlach (archaic term) = Italian
    Francouz = Frenchmen

    Very frequent is a lastname
    Turek = Turk
    IMHO big part of the holders of the lastname TUREK are decendents of non-Turks, veterans of wars against Ottoman Empire.
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