摘要
西亚是世界上城市起源最早、发展历史最长的地区之一。公元前4000年,在美索不达米亚就出现了埃利都和巴比伦等世界上最古老的城市,当时最大的城镇人口可达2.5万。从那个时期以后,西亚城市的发展便经历了兴衰交替的长期历史过程。在19世纪以前,西亚城市主要表现为政治、商业、宗教和军事职能。在这之后,随着西方殖民势力向这一地区的扩张和渗透,城市的经济职能逐步加强。第二次世界大战后。
West Asia is one of the places in which there had been earliest andlongest historic cities. The oldest cities, such as Babylon, appeared in Me-sopotamia as early as 4000 B.C. with the population up to 25000 in biggestones. Since then, history had seen the cities in West Asia experiencing along alternate process of prosperity and decline. Till the beginning of 19thcentury, their functions remained in politics, trade, religion and defense. Asthe influence of the Western colonialism expanded and infiltrated into theirregions, their economic function strenghtened. After the Second World Warespecially the sudden occurrence of "oil boom" in the 1960s, the developm-ent of the cities in West Asia showed an unprecedented feature both regard- ing their scope and the transformation in their economic and social structures.
出处
《西亚非洲》
1987年第6期25-33,78-79,共11页
West Asia and Africa
