This article traces the history of medieval oasis city Sijilmassa, southeastern Morocco, and that its modern, continuation metropolitan Rissani in Tafilalt region. Elements mobility transition are discussed light prominent historical role urban settlement long-distance trans-Saharan trade infrastructure. These elements developed with a focus on region’s Jewish communities, their socio-spatial c...

Abstract Jibbali/Śḥərɛ̄́t is a language belonging to the Modern South Arabian ( msa ) branch of Semitic. It currently endangered and spoken by an estimate 50,000 ~ 70,000 people living in Omani governorate Dhofar. Similarly other languages, it unwritten, survival its speakers’ traditional knowledge rests on their ability memorise retain large amount information form poetry, songs, folk-tales prov...

ResumenA partir de los años 80 del siglo pasado Móstoles empezó a ser llamado el ‘más allá’, en un contexto transformación urbanística que expresaba la lucha por definición las fronteras Madrid. En ese se establecían relaciones dominación centro-periferia propias discurso basado compartimentación territorial ciudad. Así, nuevas áreas colonizadas ciudad quedaban bajo centralidad su determinación...

Among the many Assyrian written sources and inscriptions some texts report the military expeditions of the kings of Assyria. These accounts, the so-called Itineraries texts, describe in details the different stops of the armies through territories outside the Assyrian heartland. With regard to the Zagros area, the reports mention different long and ruthless campaigns undertaken by some Assyrian...

This paper gives an overview of the book Stone and Mountains in Popular Culture by Ruth Ageeva, a monograph that includes preface, introduction, seven chapters, appendix, list oronyms (proper names for mountains stones) found text. The presents functional study original word stone its derivatives oronymy (chapter 1), analyses proper individual stones 2), considers symbolic connotations stones’ ...

The modern digital cartography, represented by numerical cartography, digital elevation models (DEM, DTM, DSM), orthoimages or the same like photo textured on DEM, is the metrically correct and highly descriptive system on which integrate any other source of information. These three-dimensional models in dynamic GIS can provide an interesting tool for the environmental and territorial data mana...

 The purpose of the work is to supplement knowledge about formation noble estates in Ruthenian voivodeship, since late Middle Ages through prism historical geography. The research methodology based on historical-critical, comparative (they were used analysis and comparison original documents with their copies, which made it possible identify signifi cant diff erences texts) historical-geog...

Terrain is generally stored in GIS as an elevation field, whereas human cognition of the landscape is usually object based. To address this mismatch of terrain data models, we propose object-based terrain representation, using topographic eminences, which are landforms that rise up conspicuously from the ground to visibly dominate the landscape, to illustrate our case. We propose a cognition ba...