TERITORIU, TERITORIALITATE, OPORTUNITATE SI SEMNIFICATIE
Territory, territoriality, opportunity and signification

Summary/Abstract: Through the multiple meanings given to the term ‘territory’ there has been created a polysemy hard to be accepted. We can clarify the matter a bit etymologically, starting from the Latin root ‘terra’ and its derivative ‘territorium’ with its current rendering territory/land. This signifies a piece of land, irrespective of its dimensions and configuration. The physical nature expressed territorially – as a manifestation of reality becomes a place. Places frequently associate physical territory with the population that uses it, and the products of the inhabitants’ activities, becoming thus dwellings, localities, territorial areas, regions, countries, states, etc. Proprietorship of the territory/land implies a certain delimitation, namely borders, frontiers. Owning a territory implies sovereignty (individual, group, state sovereignty). From the behaviors of animals which through instinct defend their feeding territory, to the inhabitants of the ‘locus’, of regions, of countries, there has appeared a struggle to defend but also to conquer new territories belonging to different people. The fight to conquer has many motivations. We deem it essential according to the law of response to necessity. This may be material, strategic, political, social, etc. Consequently, the forms of projecting ownership, conquest, exploitation and management of territories led to theories, justifications and geo-political actions. The territory, the territoriality, the opportunity and the signification are conflict sources. The interactions between groups, between states, between global poles, whether harmonious or disjunctive, must be perceived through the perspective of different offers of the inhabitants, of the unlimited demands of other parties and of the lack of global balance. The geo-political currents lead to confrontations, wars and complex forms of territorialization and re-territorialization. The territory as a source of conflict and the geo-political interpretations perceived on a large specter, remain terms for continuous scientific analysis. The fact is explained through the negentropic evolution of the real world and the multiplication of survival purposes of mankind, of people associated in different groups at different levels.

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