The purpose of this paper is to prove a general fixed point theorem for
mappings involving almost altering distances and satisfying a new type of
common limit range property which generalize the results from Theorem 2.9
[19]. In the last part of the paper, as applications, some fixed point
results for mappings satisfying contractive conditions of integral type for
almost contractive mappings for ?-contractive mappings and (?,?) - weak
contractive mappings in metric spaces are obtained.