أسماء المدن و المواقع الجغرافية المتشابهة لفظا و المختلفة موقعا في النصوص المسمارية

Abstract EN

Study the names of cities is of a great importance for those researchers specializing in the field of historical geography.

This importance is clear through its role in detaining the geographical theatre of many historical facts and events as well as determing the correct and true course of the caravans stations, campaigns and travels across historical periods.

This research considers and deals with significant phenomenon in this filed that is the similarity of names of cities included in the cuneiform texts with the difference of their geographical sites in the near east, because many of the researchers are in a case of an illusion and mixture to assign the site of the considered city because they do not realize that the names of cities are same names like those of people know that can be given to more than one.

Here, the researcher has to take the responsibility of determing the site of the considered city in the study.