For other uses, see Atlantis (disambiguation). Athanasius Kircher's map of Atlantis, placing it in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. From Mundus Subterraneus 1669, published in Amsterdam. The map is oriented with south at the top.
Common Polish family names include Nowak, Kowalski, Wisniewski, Kaminski and Zielinski. As with other cultures, many Polish surnames are based on a profession or place of origin.
Incidentally, we see the-in/-yn suffix added sometimes without the preceding vowel, yielding names such as Lipno, also meaning place of the lindens; this place name, too, can yield the surname LipiÅski. These processes are very common in Polish surname formation.he practical consequence of this is that a lot of-ski names referring to places are ambiguous; they may refer to a number of different places with names derived from the same base form. Thus you can't be positive Warszawski must refer to the capital of Poland.