الأصالة و الإبداع الجغرافي الإقليمي في حضارة وادي الرافدين : دراسة في الفكر الجغرافي

Abstract EN

The region of Wadi Al-Rafidain is an ancient region that was named by the Greeks “Mesopotamia” (the country between the two rivers), and because of its old history, many of the geographical contributions that this civilization has left are unknown to the modern researchers.

Among these contributions are their ideas in regional geography, which have contributed to the development of regional geography during the ancient, middle and modern times; and this is what the present study attempts to revealed by studying: originality and regional geographical creativity in the civilization of Mesopotamia.

The importance of the research is to realize the originality and creativity left by the inhabitants of the ancient civilization of Iraq in regional geography by highlighting their contribution to the development of the oldest ideas in this area, which were unprecedented by any of the civilizations that prevailed during antiquity.

The problem of research is to search for historical and archaeological evidence which confirms that the Mesopotamia civilization had headed other civilizations in laying the foundation for the emergence of regional geography.

The most important conclusion of the study is that the concept of regional geography and the division of the world into seven regions that prevailed in the Arab Islamic civilization during the Middle Ages and the division of the world into natural and human regions was recognized by the Mesopotamian civilization; and the scientific development that took place in regional geography during ancient, medieval and modern times was originated from the regional ideas left by the people of Mesopotamia civilization.