الملخص

          The area of traditional markets is not considered the  only focus of the only marketing which received the population of Mosul and its region . but the functional and structural exchanges  have faced the city especially after the expansion of its size and area . but many commercial focuses which appear  in Mosul city especially the commercial market of al Zahra quarter after 1986.              The variation in the pattern and the distribution of the marketing center in al Zahra quarter requires the city geography researchers to do distinct work through analyzing such a geography  to focus on determining its locations by studying  its geographicall distribution and to try  determining the levels of its importance which services the goals of urban planning when trying  to plan for it inside urban space .           The commercial market of al Zahra contains 230 functional units and patterns the shops of sale and purchase are dominant  over  other patterns that about  172 commercial shops with 47,8 % the percentage from the total of shops is then the service shops which reach to 36 commercial shops and their percentage  from the total shops ,Finally  the other patterns from only  just 9,5% from the total of the commercial shops in the markets.