النشاط الزراعي في جزيرة صقلية من خلال كتب البلدانيين

Abstract EN

1- The Island of Sicily is considered as one of the biggest island of Mediterranean Sea , it is located at the middle of this Sea to divide it into two parts Eastern and Western and it surrounded it from its all sides save the north – east one , which is the head of the Island ( Misseny ) city that is parted from the south of Italy , by the marine path ( the strait of misseny ) .

2- The texts of the writers who wrote about Sicily mentioned that it has an agricultural activities of wide range due to the island site , climate , water resources , fruitful soil and the varied topographic relief : mountains, plains and plates which are used by the people of Sicily to cultivate different crops.

3- In the narrations of the historian geographers and travelers, we found the variety among their texts which dealt with the agricultural activities of the Island : it included the grains, fruits , vegetable and the fruitful trees.

4- We noticed that the narrations of the historian geographers and travelers are unbalance in its dealing with the research main points, once it elaborated, other it shortened and some of them are repeated with some additions.

5- A group of the historian geographers and travelers had mentioned the Island, each of them represented the historic era which the Island lived .

some of those were (geographers) wrote about Sicily by taking from the other geographers or historians or depending on what they had heard from the other people.

The other were ( travelers ) and they had visit the Island and watched its agricultural activities so their writings were very accurate and wonderful