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Authors' Contribution NTN and TTT contributed to designing the research, writing the original draft. LMH performed the statistical analysis, prepared the figures. ANT and HPN contributed to the field investigation, data collection. NHC contributed to the field investigation, data collection, and funding acquisition. HDT designed the method, supervised and funding acquisition. All authors contributed to the revision of the manuscript.

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Knaster-Kuratowski-Mazurkiewicz type theorems play an important role in nonlinear analysis, optimization, and applied mathematics. Since the first well-known result, many international efforts have been made to develop sufficient conditions for the existence of points intersection (and their applications) in increasingly general settings: Gconvex spaces [21, 23], L-convex spaces [12], and FCspaces [8, 9]. Applications of Knaster-Kuratowski-Mazurkiewicz type theorems, especially in existence studies for variational inequalities, equilibrium problems and more general settings have been obtained by many authors, see e.g. recent papers [1, 2, 3, 8, 18, 24, 26] and the references therein. In this paper we propose a definition of generalized KnasterKuratowski-Mazurkiewicz mappings to encompass R-KKM mappings [5], L-KKM mappings [11], T-KKM mappings [18, 19], and many recent existing mappings. Knaster-KuratowskiMazurkiewicz type theorems are established in general topological spaces to generalize known results. As applications, we develop in detail general types of minimax theorems. Our results are shown to improve or include as special cases several recent ones in the literature.