ABSTRACT
As the geographer D.B. Knight has stated, "In a sense, temtory is not; it becomes, for territory itself is passive, and it is human beliefs and actions that give territory meaning." 2 Territories, provinces, nations, or whatever designation we choose, are spatial patterns on the landscape and can be "produced" and "reproduced" as society, politics, and economics dictate, so that their boundaries become culturally generated "geographies of the mind." 3 Every human group assigns a symbolic meaning to its landscape, which in itself is sufficiently powerful to give rise to conflict.
