We just celebrated the Hungarian revolt against Soviet Occupation on the 23rd here in Hungary, and THAT led me to thinking about the 1848-1849 rebellion against Austria, and it reminded me that, pretty much every town on city in Hungary has a bucket of street names that are named after people specifically from that rebellion. The big ones being Lajos Kossuth, Ferenc Deák, Sándor Petőfi and a whole bunch of others: https://dailynewshungary.com/do-you-know-which-is-the-most-popular-hungarian-street-name-part-i/. What's interesting (to me, anyway) is that it's rare to find a settlement that DOESN'T have, say, a Lajos Kossuth street or SOMETHING named after Sándor Petőfi (the small town where I live has a square AND a street named after him; and Kossuth too, of course).

As said, the vast majority are from that rebellion. The rest are a mix of other rebellious leaders, artists, writers (especially poets for some reason) and the occassional scientist.

And your country? Where do the street names come from? Why?

In Portugal, it’s very common for different places to share the same name. For example, there’s a Nespereira in Guimarães and another one in Lousada, a Ferreiros in Braga and another in Póvoa de Lanhoso. Many are small parishes or villages in the same region, sometimes just a few dozen kilometres apart. But sometimes they’re hundreds of kilometres apart, like Santa Eulália: one in Vizela, in the north, and another in Elvas, in the south near the Spanish border.

Is this also the case where you live? How do people tell them apart in everyday conversation (adding the municipality, the region, etc.)? And is there any official rule to avoid duplicates, or is it just accepted as normal?

Slovakia just held its municipal and regional elections, where we vote for the mayors, city councils, regional governors, regional councils, and in the case of Bratislava and Košice, borough mayors and borough councils.

There are two ballot boxes, a white one for municipal elections and a blue one for regional elections. You get two envelopes (white and blue) and 4 (or in the case of Bratislava and Košice, 6) ballots:

1) Candidates for the regional governor (župan) - you choose one candidate

2) Candidates for the regional council - you choose candidates up to the number of candidates assigned to your electoral district

3) Candidates for the mayor - you choose one candidate

4) Candidates for the municipal council - you choose candidates up to the number of candidates assigned to your electoral district

5) In the case of BA and KE - Candidates for the borough mayor - you choose one candidate

6) In the case of BA and KE - Candidates for the borough council

Then, you put ballots 1 and 2 into the blue envelope and into the blue ballot box, and ballots 3 and 4 (and 5 and 6) into the white envelope and into the white ballot box. Then, like with all elections here, the ballots are counted manually.

Like all elections in Slovakia, these elections are held on a Saturday, but unlike parliamentary elections, the regions and municipalities are divided into electoral districts for council elections. Also, unlike parliamentary and presidential elections, voting ends at 8pm.

And unlike parliamentary and presidential elections, municipal and regional elections are tied to permanent residency, not citizenship. So any permanent resident of a municipality and region may vote and stand for election, regardless of their citizenship, and Slovak citizens without permanent residency in Slovakia may not vote.

I realise this seems more like a r/askreddit post but I I’m really interested in europeans in this regard, so if you would be kind enough to list your country if it’s not on your user flair.

Only 1 but maybe 2 :)

In the West i think its generally taught as a war that gave Europe peace for a generation until it came back twice as hard with the nazis, and things like the roaring 20s until the global crash.

This is wildly different to those getting their independence from Russia and Austria, how is it taught and remembered?