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Explanation: Its not easy to sort family names by nations !
Whos are family names : LACKOVITS (children of a man named Lacko = Ladislav)
Or: KOVACS (Smith, Blacksmith)
Hungarian ? Or Croatian ?
Or one of the most common Hungarian family names => HORVATH (= a Croat)
Serbian or Bosnian or Croatian there are some family names everyvhere:
MARIĆ, for example MILOEVIĆ IVKOVIĆ . etc
Serbian or Croatian ?
BOTH !
And similar this question requires a serious investigation .
My own family name can be traced among Moravians (now Chech Republic), Hazars (contemporary Azerbaydzan), Bulgars, Russians all the way to the toponims at Ural Mountains and in the Middle East :-)
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SUVAKOVIC (with a pure S doesnt exist in the Croatian Phone Book)
At http://www.htnet.hr/fset.html TELEFONSKI IMENIK (White Pages) there are 23 in Croatia majority of them in Slavonija which could be an indication since it was the same state with Hungary for some 800 years 1102 1918.
Here they are:
01. GOGA PARFUMERIJA I FRIZERSKI SALON VL. UVAKOVIĆ OLGA Pula, Sergijevaca 43 (052) 217 159
02. UVAKOVIĆ BRANKO Pula, Bačićev prilaz 13 (052) 505 553
03. UVAKOVIĆ DARKO Zapreić, Ljudevita Gaja 44 (01) 3311 945
04. UVAKOVIĆ DRAEN Lupoglav (098) 9143 720
05. UVAKOVIĆ FRANJO Aljma, Podunavlje 20 (031) 595 045
06. UVAKOVIĆ IVAN Cerna (098) 9638 102
07. UVAKOVIĆ IVAN Cerna, Kneza Domagoja 68B (032) 843 288
08. UVAKOVIĆ IVAN Cerna, Velika Cerna 100 (032) 843 815
09. UVAKOVIĆ JAKOB Lipovac, Braće Radića 55 (032) 270 070
10. UVAKOVIĆ JOSIP Bebrina, Bebrina 100 (035) 433 304
11. UVAKOVIĆ LJUBOMIR Osijek, Vij. I. Metrovića 1B (031) 208 958
12. UVAKOVIĆ MARA Aljma, Trg braće Radića 20 (031) 595 218
13. UVAKOVIĆ MILIJANA Peroj, Peroj 237 (052) 521 708
14. UVAKOVIĆ OLGA, FRIZERSKI SALON Pula, Sergijevaca 43 (052) 217 159
15. UVAKOVIĆ PETAR Lipovac (098) 348 167
16. UVAKOVIĆ PETAR Lipovac, Braće Radića 56 (032) 270 166
17. UVAKOVIĆ PETAR Lipovac, I.L. Ribara 13D (032) 270 120
18. UVAKOVIĆ PETAR Vinkovci, A.G. Matoa 36 (032) 369 601
19. UVAKOVIĆ RADOSLAV Aljma, Zlatna 70 (031) 595 217
20. UVAKOVIĆ RUICA Osijek, Sjenjak 36 (031) 573 709
21. UVAKOVIĆ STJEPAN Osijek, Lj. Posavskog 26 (031) 300 236
22. UVAKOVIĆ STJEPAN Zagreb, Ante Jakića 28 (01) 2435 250
23. UVAKOVIĆ ZLATA Vinkovci (098) 751 309
SARAJEVO.NET provides the phone books for entire ex-Yugoslavia at: http://www.sarajevo.net/bihweblinks.html
TELEFONSKI IMENICI
TELEFONSKI IMENIK Federacije BIH BH Telecom
TELEFONSKI IMENIK Republike Srpske
TELEFONSKI IMENIK SLOVENIJE
TELEFONSKI IMENIK SRBIJE
TELEFONSKI IMENIK HRVATSKE
TELEFONSKI IMENIK CRNE GORE
TELEF0NSKI IMENIK MAKEDONIJE
Prezime i ime Telefon Adresa
UVAKOVIĆ TIMOTIJE 033 642971 BEHDETA MUTEVELIĆA 117 SARAJEVO SARAJEVO
And so on
GOOGLE places family name UVAKOVIĆ in: Slovenia, Serbia, Croatia
In this form, the root could be LEFT-HANDED ić-suffix designates small or children of a left handed man
Again, a specialist is needed for more precise defition.
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