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Lukas
Lukas Lukáš is one of the most popular Czech masculine names of the past several decades — modern-sounding without being fashionable, it suggests a young man of practical intelligence and easy sociability. In contemporary Czech fiction it tends to appear on protagonists who navigate the post-communist world with pragmatic good humor.
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