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Agrarian Reform in Greece, a portrait and appreciation. Few studies have been devoted to the appreciation of agrarian reform in Greece. The reason of it is probably that the agrarian reform was launched during the Balkan wars and accelerated under the pressure caused by population exchanges in this area. The author suggests that there were such differences between agrarian structures in the southern provinces of Greece and the territories acquired after 1881 that the agrarian question and the question of Thessaly were the same and one problem. The question was to decide whether the land should be given to those who cultivate it, or not. But its solution was postponed many times because the state and the various parts of the Greek nation usually reconciled together when confronted with the Turks or the Bulgarians. The author stresses the fact the agrarian reform finally appeared as a political and technical must when Greece had to cope with trying internal difficulties and military defeat as refugees poured from all regions formerly inhabited by Greeks. He insists then on the point that is was organised together with the settlement of refugees and various land reclamation's projects. As a constitutional amendment made it possible since 1911 most agricultural estates were assigned to peasants and their owners received compensations. This substitution took a long time. A huge number of small privately owned tenures came out of this reform ; most of them can be considered as too small in the presently prevailing European economic environment ; and because of the inadequacies of the agricultural banking and cooperative system many of these small ferms are nowadays a prey for the urban entrepreneurs and industrialists whose aim is to command the trade of agricultural goods.

Urban growth rate in Albania is a very reasonable one. However there are numerous new towns, owing to the gathering of the agricultural exploitations, to the opening of mining and industrial centers, to the development of the transport network. As for the older towns, some of them (Korça, Shkodra) are slowly growing but others like Elbasan, Durres, Vora and especially Tirana increase fastly.

Most of the Jordanian cities are situated in a frontier position, near by the desert. They are very old commercial centers whose history had very straight links with the fate of the great political empires. The birth of Jordan as an independant state and more of all the rush of refugees from Palestine led to a very fast growth of the urban population but the growth of economic activity did not follow.

Sana'a is mentionned only in the beginning of J.-C. era. Situated in the heart of the high plateau and intramontane plains, Sana'a is surrounded by some prosperous rural villages. Small town (18 000 inh.) in 1939, its growing begins only after the civil war (1969) : 140 000 inhabitants in 1974 (31,7 % outborn). The activities are dominated by services (72,6 %), then by retailing : industrialisation is still petty (one big textil plant) but agriculture remains noticeable. Five types of quarters : to the East, the old arab city, residential, with the traditionnal «suk», caracterized by a famous architecture ; to the West, the ancient turk city, with gardens and to the extreme west the former « ghetto » now taudified. In the center, between the arab and the turk cities, a modern business quarter is growing ; residential suburbs appear to North and the South.