Historical geography from two perspectives: An introduction to the importance of historical geography around Iran's historical issues

Subject Areas : Political Developments in Iran

Mohammad Jalal Makhani ¹ (PhD Candidate in Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies, Tehran, Iran)

Received: 2022-09-20 Accepted : 2022-10-08 Published : 2022-09-23

Keywords: historical geography, Iran, history, Geography,

Abstract :

In this article, we will try to provide a description of the "what" is the historical geography and discussing a bout changes in historical geography in recent years and, basically, whether what is understood today from the concept of historical geography is the same. Was it understood in the past or not? Therefore, in two parts, we will try to compare the definitions of historical geography among the ancients and contemporaries. The new understanding of historical geography that exists among German and English geographers, despite the great difference that the old understanding of this category had, has a lot of dynamics that can provide a wide objectivity for this concept so that the audience of this field with a practical, scientific, objective, dynamic and comprehensive - to deal with a static and subjective category. In our view, historical geography is not a static and learned category to understand the place of geographical names, but a very dynamic knowledge system, whose minimum function is to express an appropriate answer to our border, identity and history issues and a solid step to strengthen the national relations of Iranians.