ORTAÇAĞDA YERLEŞMELERİN SINIFLANDIRILMASINA MODERN YAKLAŞIM İBN HALDUN

The habitation is a way of using a place. Similarly, it is the case that the man-place relationship becomes concrete and occurs. In this sense, it is one of the important subjects that the science field of geography emphazises it while evaluating the man-place relationship. The discussion, evaluation and explanations on this man-place relationship are made through their properties with the classes or varities which are revealed by the criteria that are determined. Ibn Haldun who was born in The Mediterranean Basin which is the occurrence place of the middle age’s many civilizations and who received a well education with the use of different sources in this period’s conditions; had the various duties in civil service in the different cities in the basin and he maintained his life in the far rural areas from them in the certain periods. Ibn Haldun who made a point especially of the trip and observation from the geography’s main review and research methods, who revealed the habitations and their properties and categorized them made this evaluation and explanations in an experimental viewpoint. It increased the academic value of his evaluation and explanations that he analyzed his period and places well. Haldun who illuminated the subject of the habitations’ categorization, which have been considered and discussed today, and the criteria which will be used for it made the explanations which survive today, with the use of close criteria to the criteria that are accepted as a basis of the evaluations today. He determined two different habitations which were connected to two different lifestyle with these evaluation and explanations and he stated their properties. In the research; Haldun’s Introduction about the habitations’ categorization and the criteria was based on, and its evaluation was made, with the use of other studies.