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The study aims to identifying the historical skills required for intermediate school pupils from the viewpoint of teachers of history, used the descriptive approach(survey),the research community consisted of (182) teachers of the history in intermediate schools in the center of the holy Karbala province, a sample of (127) teachers of history, the questionnaire (as the tool for the research),to test the validity of the tool of the research, the researchers has chosen the face validity and has given it to (15) experts, For the purpose of finding the stability of the tool, researchers adopted the test method and re- test, reliability the tool (0.85).the following statistical means have been exploited by the researcher: Pearson's correlation coefficient and the weighted average, weight percentile, and Chi-square (Ka 2), showed the following results have been obtained: The number of the historical skills whose weight percentage was more than (90) was only one, while the number of skills whose weight percentage was between (80-90) was (43), and the number of those between (70-80) was (38), and the number of those between (60-70) was (6), and this shows that the teachers of history, in spite of the difference in opinions and viewpoints as to the importance of each skill of the historical skills that pupils of intermediate school should acquired, but this inevitably showed the importance of these skills and the necessity of teaching them to pupils of this important stage, In the light of the findings obtained, the researchers put forward the following recommendations: During the teaching process, teachers of history at intermediate stage should highlight the skills mentioned in this research. And suggests: Carry out experimental studies in order to know the effect each historical skill has on pupil's achievement and motivation. (Published Abstract)