Open AccessGéographie historique, peuplement et terroirs dans la région du Hodna occidental au Moyen Âge
Author(s) -
Mohammed Meouak
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
acta orientalia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1600-0439
pISSN - 0001-6438
DOI - 10.5617/ao.5350
Subject(s) - fortress (chess) , settlement (finance) , geography , arabic , human settlement , archaeology , ethnology , history , humanities , ancient history , art , linguistics , world wide web , computer science , payment , philosophy
Based on a critical lecture of Medieval Arabic historical and geographical sources, this study deals with three points mainly centred on settlement topics. The first point consists of a description of the Western Hodna within the geographical history of the Central Maghreb. The second question offers a list of the main sites of Western Hodna through the Medieval Arabic sources with the whole settlement’s Arabic vocabulary. The third part tries to give some observations on the modalities of settlements, the tribal impact on the settlements and the problem of the types of settlements: village (qarya) and fortress (ḥiṣn). The last part is a summary of the study with several suggestions for further research in relation to the studied matters like historical geography and rural economy.