“The need for certainty, homogeneity, rationalization and good road traffic organization, as well as the need to clearly identify the areas of an urban centre, took a back seat in respect to prevailing nationalization, driven by the need to reduce minorities and to make the State's cultural structure almost monistic. Toponymy became a cultural asset, inevitably losing its function as a "historical turnaround, or scientific furnishings that might be compared, in the order of physical events, to the different deposits studied by geologists".” ItalyItalian HistoryEthnic MinoritiesNationalizationToponymyNational MinoritiesRisorgimento Book:Topographical Names and Protection of Linguistic Minorities Source: Topographical Names and Protection of Linguistic Minorities