Latas ( sr, Латас) is a surname, found in many countries in Europe, mainly in Serbia, Poland, Croatia, but also Spain and Portugal from Middle Ages. However their mutual geographical and lexical origin is undetermined.

Slavic surname

This surname in the countries of ex-

Yugoslavia Yugoslavia (; sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Jugoslavija, Југославија ; sl, Jugoslavija ; mk, Југославија ;; rup, Iugoslavia; hu, Jugoszlávia; rue, label=Pannonian Rusyn, Югославия, translit=Juhoslavija ...

is not tied to any ethnicity or confession, yet territory ( Dinara). Croatian linguist,

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, derived ''Lat'' from personal name ''Láto'' (''

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''), meaning ''gentle''. The second part ''as'' is ending suffix, mostly found in personal names among Vlach pastoralist communities from Dinara.

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 The Yugoslav People's Army (abbreviated as JNA/; Macedonian and sr-Cyrl-Latn, Југословенска народна армија, Jugoslovenska narodna armija; Croatian and bs, Jugoslavenska narodna armija; sl, Jugoslovanska ljudska a ...

. * Dragan Pavloviḱ Latas, Macedonian journalist.

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{{Authority control Surnames of Croatian origin Surnames of Serbian origin

Slavic surname

List of people with surname Latas

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