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In time, Coyas [meaning jewelry in Ladino] had become the nickname of the family, and started to be used along with Eskenazi. Because Eskenazi was a very widespread surname, we were given only the surname Coyas, when the ‘Surname Law’ [1] was passed in 1934. There is no other family in Turkey bearing this surname.
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Samuel Coyas