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Jaselská, Vídeňská, Skandinávská – vžitá zeměpisná jména v brněnských uličních názvech
| Title in English | Jaselská, Vídeňská, Skandinávská – common geographical names in Brno street names |
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| Year of publication | 2023 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Přednášky a besedy z LVI. ročníku Letní školy slovanských (bohemistických) studií |
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| Keywords | street names; exonyms; Brno |
| Description | The article deals with street names in Brno (Czech Republic), which are formed from exonyms, common geographical names. Out of a total of 40 of these names, only one name has an orientation function (Vídeňská according to the direction to the Austrian metropolis Vienna) and therefore a direct connection to the locality. The other names refer indirectly to the locations and thus have an honorific function. Most of these names were created in the 1950s-1970s in connection with dynamic housing estate construction and their motivation was often in line with the socialist ideology of the time - e.g. the names in the Bohunice housing estate Arménská, Gruzínská, Běloruská, Moldavská after former Soviet republics: "Armenian street", "Georgian street", "Belarusian street", "Moldavian street". |
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