توطن مراكز العمران وفقا لمسمياتها في البيئات الجغرافية بمحافظات شمال الصعيد

Abstract EN

The study deals with endemic Urbanism centers according to their denomination in geographic environments provinces of Northern Upper Egypt (Beni Suef, Fayoum and Minya).

The study area includes nearly 750 urban center rustic and urban belong to different historical eras and in a variety of geographic scales Geographical significance of the names of the villages of the study area was classified into five main groups: indication of the morphology, water sign, a sign energetic, climatic significance, cultural significance, and other names have no significance This main groups were divided according to the classification of semantic to semantics subset; for example, significant morphological came three sub-components contain a prefix or suffix as the urban center; high Tdhars surface (Mount-Tel com), flush and concave surface (Btun- Valley-catch), configurations surface (Ahadjr- Rml-Dysh - clay or silt).

The cultural significance of more than ten subgroups It is endemic to the geographical names of urban centers according to the geographical segments, it turns out the meaning of the names of those centers, including relatively consistent with the geographical and environmental data sectors of the study area agree.

The research came to the rule of cultural significance in the names of urban centers, the study area, and have had center stage compared to other connotations.

This is due to the historical and cultural importance of the study area that came under successive historical eras left their mark on the villages in the region names .

The study recommends a study of the importance and significance of geographical names and especially the increase in domestic orientation and Arab to hold special conferences geographical names, as well as attention from the Arab geographical names and encoded to save the Arab identity, as well as recognizing the importance of the Arabic language and the semantics meanings.