Princípio da territorialidade: trajetórias e definições

Abstract: Starting from the concepts of principle and territory, this article presents the historical marks and settings of the Principle of Territoriality on archival approach. Starts of a master´s research, analyzes the importance of the principle for the development of Archival Science as a scientific discipline, through the analysis of 35 textbooks from the area. Considers the history of the archives and the trajectory of the discipline just like the trajectory of the practice, theoretical and legal of that principle. The results achieved in this study show that the Principle of Territoriality is historically presented in six books analyzed, defined in eight works and has his contributions to Archival Science delivered on ten works. We concluded that the Principle of Territoriality helps the Archival Science to form as a scientific discipline, unfolding of Principle of Provenance and applied in the case of contentious involving a succession of documents.