Komemoriranje papa i biskupa u hodonimima Hercegovine
Commemoration of popes and bishops in hodonyms of Herzegovina

Summary/Abstract: Hodonyms have been one of the more scientifically researched topics over the past decades. Although street nomenclature primarily aids easier orientation of people in a particular area, it has a quite deeper symbolic meaning. Since every great socio-political change also manifests itself in a replacement of street toponymy, as also evident in Herzegovina, the names serving as hodonyms definitely correlate with a particular political option whose goal is to influence the collective (selective) memory of a social community by commemorating selected individuals and events. The object of our interest is the period after the independence of Bosnia and Herzegovina was declared, when greater change of street nomenclature occurred. The names of streets and squares that evoked memories of different partisan fighters and events from the Second World War, as well as communist political and cultural workers, were replaced by the names of persons and events from the Croatian history thus trying to influence the strengthening of national consciousness and collective identity. The names of Herzegovinian streets also serve to commemorate popes and bishops and the analysis of their presence in the street nomenclature in the Herzegovina region suggests one segment of collective, i.e. selective memory of Croats who live in this area. The analysis includes two Herzegovinian cantons (Herzegovina-Neretva and West-Herzegovina Cantons) and is based on data obtained from the official publications and websites of cities and municipalities.

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