It is quite evident that constant efforts to define the disciplinarity of ‘Area Studies’ have been made by many scholars during the half a century. Among them, Professor Robert B. Hall by whom the field of ‘Area Studies’ was pioneered have tried to define and conceptualize it. He was acknowledged as one of those who contributed much to the development of ‘Area Studies’. He stated and emphasized the four objectives of its studies: 1) world knowledge,2) cooperative research and its integration, 3) cross-cultural understanding, and 4) elimination of handicaps in social science research.
Recently, the importance of the Mediterranean area as ‘Area’ unit has been concerned. Although that area was already the subject of scholars’ study and research, nowadays that area is highlighted as an analytical area unit for the cultural exchange between the East and the West. On this, this paper is performed by examining and analyzing the Mediterranean are as ‘area unit’. In order to do, the above mentioned area studies’ methodological approaches will be reviewed and applied to it. The concepts, etymology, scopes and historical background of the Mediterranean Area will be inquired and investigated from the standpoint of Area Studies’paradigm. Therefore, the task of its conceptualization and defining will be attempted and open to argument.