Nationalism is a political and cultural ideology based on the belief that people who share common characteristics such as history, language, culture, territory and traditions constitute a nation and should have a sense of collective identity and political loyalty. It also emphasizes the right of a nation to determine its own political destiny. In the modern period, nationalism became closely associated with the idea of the sovereign nation-state. It played an important role in the formation of modern states and in the struggles for national independence and political unity. The emergence of nationalism was closely connected with the development of industrial society in Europe. Before industrialization, European societies were largely agrarian and divided into numerous local communities, feudal estates and kingdoms. Social relations were primarily based on