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Filip
Filip Filip is a crisp, modern-sounding Slavic name with an ancient Greek pedigree. In contemporary Polish and Czech fiction it belongs to young professional men — lawyers, journalists, architects — who are ambitious but not ruthless, defined by a certain urban competence and restrained personal style.
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