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Cross-border town naming occurs where towns or villages with the same or equivalent names are divided between two different countries. This does not necessarily imply that those towns or villages are located in geographic proximity, or that they are located near a current border (for that, see Divided cities). Reasons for this taking place may include the following : * The town or village existed before the border or even before the modern concept of a border. The border was added later (sometimes by war), dividing a community. * A community on one side of a border grows up to service the border and then takes the name of the adjacent community on the other side of the border. * Communities grow up on both sides of the border to service the border, taking the name of the border crossing. Most of these places are located in Europe, but there are also some examples in North America and Asia. In Europe, until the first half of the 20th century, and again in the post-Schengen 21st century, such divisions could be mostly ignored by the inhabitants. ==Examples== Note that this list includes only places with similar names that are in someway connected (by history, geography or otherwise) across modern-day international borders. Towns that have the same name but bear no relationship to each other are also very common but not particularly notable. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cross-border town naming」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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