摘要：In 1902, Emm. de Martonne published in Paris a study regarding the southern part of Romania,
study called ¡®La Valachie. Essai de monographie g¨¦ographique¡¯. The work is not a geographical description
or a preponderantly statistic presentation. It a geographical synthesis of the knowledge regarding this country,
a study of regional geography ¨C the first one of this kind, that gathered a large volume of geological,
meteorological, archaeological, demographical, and economic information. The scientific, documentary, and
methodological value is quite impressive. As a whole, the work remained an indispensable and actual
methodological tome for regional geography; it represents an exceptional demonstration of the way regional
geography, fundamental branch of geography, has to be understood, as it was the basis for the development
and affirmation of the Romanian Geographical School.
