DOI: 10.5176/2382-5650_CCS17.20
Authors: Lenka Tkáč-Zabáková
Abstract:
The paper is devoted to the dynamics of street names and its analogy between political turns and ideological changes in a selected area. The urbanonymic system of the historical center of Slovak town Nitra and its other chosen suburbs (depending on their status, prominence and weight in a demographic expansion of the conglomerate) were the subject of the previous detailed semantic and motivational analysis. This research had been carried out to define tendencies of the local toponymic nomination, which are presented in the following paper. It is primarily focused on the 19th and 20th centuries, when ideological alterations in public administration constituted the driving force of the city toponymy. In addition to military conflicts and another phenomenon of global importance, this period brought other distinctive milestones for the Central European area. These have influenced the social and political development of the region, and they are incorporated in the urbanonymic system, too. Besides that, analyzed inventory of the street names reflects local history, Christian tradition, citizens; therefore, it involves fundamental features of patriotism.
Keywords: toponymy; Nitra; street names; onymic dynamic.
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