After the Battle of Edington in 878, Alfred established a network of fortified settlements, called burhs, in Wessex to protect his people and territory against Viking attacks, and when Æthelred accepted Alfred's lordship the burhs were extended into Mercia.
Since then, Israel has gradually sliced up the West Bank assigned by the UN to the Palestinians into a strategic network of "settlements" that will make a farce of any two-state solution that both the UN and subsequent agreements were supposed to facilitate.
This process, called in Italian incastellamento, created a network of fortified hilltop settlements, some of which still survive.
A network of garrison-like settlements, roadblocks and settler-only highways has built Palestinian humiliation into the very fabric of what Baker called "Greater Israel".
Human repopulation during the Bronze Age coincided with a return to more pluvial conditions under which a network of oasis agricultural settlements appeared along the piedmont zone of the northern Hajar Mountains.
Israeli control of the West Bank is maintained by measures like military attacks on civilian areas and a network of Israeli-only roads linking settlements and imposing severe controls on Palestinian movement.
Andriantsimitoviaminiandriana was the first to systematically establish a network of defenses around the hilltop settlement.
The network of settlements in East Jerusalem and the West Bank is by now so dense that a unilateral Israeli withdrawal seems utterly implausible.
An extensive network of settlements emerged around it in the 9th century.
Recruiting companions adds them to your network of settlements, which act as your personal pockets of peace throughout the wasteland.
