Historical regions (or historical areas ) are geographical regions which, at some point in history, had a cultural , ethnic , linguistic or political basis, regardless of latter-day borders. There are some historical regions that can be considered as "active", for example: Moravia , which is held by the Czech Republic , is both a recognized part of the country as well as a historical region. They are used as delimitations for studying and analysing social development of period -specific cultures without any reference to contemporary political, economic or social organisations.
5-522: Halar (Haalaar) is a historical region of western India , located by the Gulf of Kutch coast on the northwestern area of Nawanagar , now Jamnagar, in Gujarat State, on Saurashtra peninsula, roughly corresponding to the present Jamnagar District , Devbhumi Dwarka district , Morbi District and Rajkot District . In 1901 it had an area of 19,365 km and a population of 764,992 inhabitants. The name
10-501: Is derived from Jam Sri Halaji Jadeja who is supposed to be the 9th-generation grandfather of Jam Sri Rawalji Lakhaji Jadeja (who is the founder of the region and the first king to reign in the region); Halar was first established with this name by Jam Shri Rawalji Lakhaji , a Jadeja Rajput , in 1540. During the British Raj Halar region was the western of the four prants or historical districts of Kathiawar , belonging to
15-576: Is generally the required precondition for the emergence of a regional identity . In Europe, regional identities are often derived from the Migration Period but for the contemporary era are also often related to the territorial transformations that followed World War I and those that followed the Cold War . Some regions are entirely invented, such as the Middle East , which was popularised in 1902 by
20-452: Is that older political and mental structures exist which exercise greater influence on the spatial-social identity of individuals than is understood by the contemporary world, bound to and often blinded by its own worldview - e.g. the focus on the nation-state. Definitions of regions vary, and regions can include macroregions such as Europe , territories of traditional sovereign states or smaller microregional areas . Geographic proximity
25-624: The Bombay Presidency , the others being Gohelwar (southeast), Jhalawar prant (north) and Sorath (southwest). At that time the region included numerous princely states belonging to the Kathiawar Agency , mostly ruled by Jadeja Rajputs . Its salute states were : Its major non-salute states (mostly minor, usually several village) included : Other non-salute state, granted no class, were : Historical region The fundamental principle underlying this view
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