إشكالات البحث في أسماء مدن و قرى المغرب الأوسط في العصر الوسيط

Abstract EN

Toponymic research takes its importance in the central Maghreb on the basis of the linguistic and cultural diversity that the country has known, as the expansion of the geographical area and the multiplicity of races that passed through the memory of the place have accumulated the outcome of rich nominal dictionaries, which reflect the richness of the field with the names of places bearing different meanings and connotations, some of which are clear meaning easy to read and perhaps presented New cultural data about some of the intellectual and behavioral references of the societies that have settled in the place, and some of the others may come to be mysterious, with difficult methods of extrapolation and questioning, and perhaps dismantling it and searching for its meaning has become a complex research adventure, Deconstructing the name of the place, studying it, and identifying the meanings and connotations to which he refers it requires the control of the Toponymic researcher in a set of linguistic, historical and geographic knowledge, in which a diverse number of sciences intertwine that forms the ground for topological research.

Linguistics and the researcher's possession of such sciences is the possession of the real tools to accomplish a toponymic study on sound foundations and standards.

Mystery has remained surrounding a large part of the meanings that the names of cities and villages in the Middle Maghreb store in terms of their significance, and the languages to which they refer, and the disclosure of these meanings is an additional push for toponymic studies towards answering some of the outstanding issues and issues.

This research paper tries to stop the reader on the size of the difficulties That objected when researching this field, and seeks to clarify the most important semantic references to the names of cities and villages in the Middle Maghreb in the Middle Ages.