“History shows that changes in sovereignity and state borders as a result of conflicts, as well as the rise and fall of political regimes in different parts of the planet, often forcibly divide local populations and/or artificially modify the names of places. At all latitudes, such measures arise from the political need to impose apparent homogeneity of culture and language, according to the model of the nation-State that does not tolerate exceptions to the supremacy of its founding values.” PoliticsEuropean HistoryLinguistic DiversityLinguistic HegemonyToponymyNational MinoritiesCultural ConflictsToponymics Book:Topographical Names and Protection of Linguistic Minorities Source: Topographical Names and Protection of Linguistic Minorities