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Toponymy is the study of place names: houses, streets, streams, districts, mountains, sites, etc. They are a testament to our city and our surroundings, and provide a myriad of information on the ethnography, history and geography. And they do not only refer to the surroundings, society and lifestyle, but also to the language.

We therefore need to preserve our place names, just as we do with the other elements of our intangible cultural heritage. That is even more so if we take into account how quickly society is changing, how rapidly we are progressing. In recent decades, the ever-increasingly urbanisation of the territory has led to the loss of many place names and, in turn, the creation of new ones.

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