Yes, that is quite true. The most recent example that I could find is with the current conflict in Ukraine, https://www.wionews.com/world/zelenskyy-signs-law-b

Yes, that is quite true. The most recent example that I could find is with the current conflict in Ukraine, https://www.wionews.com/world/zelenskyy-signs-law-banning-russian-place-names-in-ukraine-aims-to-restore-national-identity-585227 https://www.wionews.com/world/zelenskyy-signs-law-banning-ru... But there are countless examples recorded instances in history, Street Names and Political Identity: The Case of East Berlin (https://www.jstor.org/stable/260587 https://www.jstor.org/stable/260587), Street Names in Colonial Singapore (https://www.jstor.org/stable/215354 https://www.jstor.org/stable/215354) Street names and political regimes in an andalusian town (https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.2307/3774079 https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.2307/3774079) From Classic to Classy: Changing Fashions in Street Names ( https://ans-names.pitt.edu/ans/article/download/870/869 https://ans-names.pitt.edu/ans/article/download/870/869) TRACING THE HISTORY OF TEL AVIV THROUGH ITS STREET NAMES ( https://www.israel21c.org/tracing-the-history-of-tel-aviv-through-its-street-names/ https://www.israel21c.org/tracing-the-history-of-tel-aviv-th...) Naming city streets—A chapter in the history of Tel-Aviv, 1909–1947 ( https://www.academia.edu/download/67078055/bf0296557020210504-21789-1dwfz7.pdf https://www.academia.edu/download/67078055/bf029655702021050...) Cultural-geographical aspects of street names in the towns of Israel ( http://ans-names.pitt.edu/ans/article/download/1226/1225 http://ans-names.pitt.edu/ans/article/download/1226/1225) Street Names in Beirut, Lebanon ( https://ans-names.pitt.edu/ans/article/download/790/789 https://ans-names.pitt.edu/ans/article/download/790/789) Street Names in Baghdad, Iraq (Part I & Part II) ( https://ans-names.pitt.edu/ans/article/download/393/392 https://ans-names.pitt.edu/ans/article/download/393/392, https://ans-names.pitt.edu/ans/article/download/405/404 https://ans-names.pitt.edu/ans/article/download/405/404) There are probably more. The study of naming places has, indeed, a long history. From personal experience, after having skimmed through more than 13.000 wikipedia entries for this project, most of the names are, surprisingly for me, of national heroes, political leaders and religious figures. Science and the arts are way lower than I've expected.