Latas
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Latas (Serbian: Латас) is a surname, found in many countries in Europe, mainly in Serbia, Poland, Croatia, but also Spain and Portugal from Middle Ages.[1] However their mutual geographical and lexical origin is undetermined. This surname in the countries of ex-Yugoslavia is not tied to any ethnicity or confession, yet territory (Dinara).[2] Croatian linguist, Petar Šimunović, derived Lat from personal name Láto (Latif), meaning gentle.[2] The second part as is ending suffix, mostly found in personal names among Vlachian pastoralist communities from Dinara.[2][3]
List of people with surname Latas
- Omar Pasha, born Mihajlo Latas (1806–1871), Ottoman general and governor.
- Branko Latas Vrška, Serbian political scientist, historian and colonel in the Yugoslav People's Army.
- Dragan Pavloviḱ Latas, Macedonian journalist.
See also
- Latas (Aragonese dynasty) for the noble Spanish surname.
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