The region's dukes became princes of the Holy Roman Empire in 1348, following which the region was dominated for centuries by duchies with shifting territorial configurations.
Three hypotheses were constructed for empirical testing: Hypothesis 1: The specific territorial configurations of Security Pacts depend on the political colour of the majority party or majority coalition running local institutions.
Modeling agricultural surplus production and life expectancy of various prehistoric and protohistoric territorial configurations in the leeward Kohala dryland field system identifies the costs and benefits associated with dynamic territorial units.
The first hypothesis, which assumed a correlation between the territorial configurations of pacts and the political colour of the contracting authorities and the central government, does not seem to provide a satisfactory explanation for this result.
The analysis reported in this paper has helped us to particularly understand why such pacts acquired specific territorial configurations rather than others, even to the extent of drawing borders different from institutionally established administrative boundaries.
Coexistence is not optional -- in one form or another, and regardless of any political and territorial configurations, Israelis and Palestinians are stuck with one another.
The paper outlines the previous debate on formalization and maps out the territorial and organizational configuration of the present ASM gold chain in Tanzania and Ghana.
Territorial variation on the city blocks configurations vary from front gardens or arcades, to inner private or communal gardens each resulting in different territorial hierarchies and boundaries.
Although Belfast has a distinctive recent history as the site of political violence and territorial division, it also has a spatial configuration that emerged out of a modernising roads and redevelopment programme in the 1960s and 1970s.
The complexity of the territorial processes that drive urban expansion and changes was analysed, focusing on the socio-spatial structure, economic configuration and entropic morphologies that qualify Naples as the exemplification of a 'crisis city'.
