As we have progressed in our journeys of learning and reclaiming what we already know, we have come to a common, shared historical understanding and political framework that we wish to share as a love offering to our kin.
Such uniquely shared historical (or derived) characteristics are called synapomorphies.
This book asks why: what explains this divergence in a shared historical space?
Known as phylogenetic taxonomy, or cladism, this approach infers shared ancestry on the basis of uniquely shared historical (or derived) characteristics, called "synapomorphies".
What happens in Syria was an "internal affair" for Turkey, he said, given shared historical and cultural ties, and an 850km (530-mile) common border.
As such it is a cautionary tale about the importance of rescued and shared historical data in ecological and geographical analysis.
So defined, a community can, on the one hand, form through cohabitation, in which common cultures evolve through shared historical and geographical experiences.
Those include shared historical experiences and memories, myths of common descent, a common culture and ethnicity, and a link with a historic territory or a homeland, which the group may or may not currently inhabit.
As most historians can only realistically do research about a particular time and place, it is how these seemingly shared historical processes manifest themselves locally that often fascinates them.
Communication links, a transport infrastructure, and a mutually comprehensible industrial and economic culture may be key background conditions, but shared historical experiences and common values are equally held to facilitate the successful imagination of the mesoregion.
