@article{12021,
  author = {Patxi Salaberri Zaratiegui},
  title = {Politics and Onomastics in the Basque Country. Historical and Current Situation},
  abstract = {This paper examines the historical relationship between politics and onomastics in the Basque Country or Euskal Herria from Roman times to the present. It focuses especially on the damaging influence that powerful Latin and Romance languages had on the development of Basque onomastics. Sabino Arana’s renewal of the Basque naming system in the late nineteenth century is also mentioned, as well as the devastating effect the Spanish Civil War and subsequent Franco’s long dictatorship had on Basque language (Euskara) and Basque names, in a period when everything related to Euskara was forbidden and severely punished. During the last ten years or so, in Navarre, the autonomous Government and the Municipality of Pamplona/Iruñea have done little to improve the situation of the language and its onomastics.},
  volume = {45},
  pages = {217-235},
  doi = {10.2143/ONO.45.0.2182824},
}