A new issue of ONOMA journal has been released !

The sessions “Place names as (part of) cultural heritage” with 16 papers, smoothly fitting into the overall conference theme, were contributed and organized by the Joint ICA/IGU Commission on Toponymy (“Politics, Uses and Governance of the Past” in Lecce (Italy), 26–28 May 2021). A selection of these papers, i.e., those having passed the obligatory double-blind peer-reviewing process, composes this issue of Onoma thanks to the welcoming attitude of its Editor-in-Chief Oliviu Felecan.

Place names, toponyms or geographical names are part of the cultural heritage, because they are elements of a language, but also because they exert very specific functions as proper names designating geographical concepts and features, the latter in the sense of all kinds of space-bound features. The sequence of the twelve articles in this issue proceeds from the more general towards the more specific and conveys quite a comprehensive picture of the topic.

The Guest Editor thanks all authors for providing their manuscripts and for their excellent cooperation, the reviewers for their competent and careful evaluation, Onoma’s Editor-in-Chief Oliviu Felecan for finalizing this issue and ICOS for providing the opportunity of publishing the proceedings of conference sessions organized by the Joint ICA/IGU Commission on Toponymy in its prestigious scientific journal.