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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Slovenian (Korošec) : habitational name for someone from Carinthia (Slovenian Koroška), a region now divided between Austria and Slovenia. The name of the region in Latin is Carantania (Old Slovenian Korotan); it was an early medieval Slovenian state on the territory of present-day Carinthia and Styria.

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