What is the national origin of the name zylicz?

Answer 1

According to my private research about this name, most people using family name Zylicz come from the Balcan, the area of former Yogoslavia. Most of the families are Ortodox Christians and it is possible that they migrated north in 16th or 17th century under the pressure of Otoman Turkish Empire. I found a moving story about this migration described in a small church in Santandre in Hungary. Among many families mentioned in thsi history there was aslo Zylicz family. Zylicz's are known in Slovakia, most of them in Ucraine and some of them in Poland. There was a village Zylicze in Ucraine, I do not know where and when. Most of the Zylicz's known in Poland probably root from Ruthenia,which is an area shared nowadays between South East Poland and Ucraine. Most of the people with name Zylicz in the United States come either from the Balcan or from Ruthenia. In Poland there are only very few families with this name and most of them are related to each oter. Z. Zylicz