The phrase "adjacent settlements" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to communities or areas that are next to each other or in close proximity.
Example: "The government is planning to improve infrastructure in the adjacent settlements to enhance connectivity."
Alternatives: "neighboring communities" or "contiguous areas".
The Dutch in New Amsterdam (later New York) and adjacent settlements gave the words boss, cookie, dope, snoop, and waffle to American speech.
To most Israelis, New York, London and even Thailand are closer to home than Palestinians towns like Nablus or Ramallah and their adjacent settlements, a mere 40-minute drive from downtown Tel Aviv.
An assessment was made of the anthropogenic transformation of the land relief and hydrological regime, which made it possible to reconstruct these components of the geographic environment in the period preceding the construction of the stronghold and the adjacent settlements.
It is also possible that people-movers would function between adjacent settlements and essentially link all such settlements.
Aerial bombardments, long-range artillery, and heavy weapons were used during the attacks on villages in Jebel Marra: Leiba, Niama, Kara, and adjacent settlements.
In 1878 settler Samuel Benn laid out a village, which 10 years later merged with the adjacent settlement of Wishkah to form the town of Aberdeen.
Residents of Tiger Bay and Holmes Street Wharf, an adjacent settlement, have made the decades-old communities habitable by tapping into electricity and water supplies, creating makeshift "shower-rooms" and furnishing interiors with salvaged sofas, TVs and appliances.
Some of Mr. al-Hajeen's brothers and cousins had been sitting on the sand, he said, others were stretched out in the warm summer night, when two Israeli tanks protecting the adjacent settlement of Netzarim crested a rise no more than 100 yards away.
According to a survey conducted by the Israeli pollster Rafi Smith, nearly 30 percent of these 100,000 settlers would prefer to accept compensation and quickly relocate within the Green Line, the pre-1967 boundividingIsraelIsrael from the West Bank, or to adjacent settlement blocs that would likely become part of Israel in any land-swap agreement.
The number and abundance of native and non-native vascular plant species in both the ground vegetation and shrub layer were recorded in 15 forest sites situated adjacent to settlements and 15 control sites far from settlements.
In both regions we found a higher number and larger abundance of non-native plant species in forest sites adjacent to settlements than in control forest sites.
