The phrase "an extensive settlement" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a large or comprehensive agreement, arrangement, or community, often in legal, real estate, or sociological contexts.
Example: "The negotiations led to an extensive settlement that addressed all parties' concerns and established clear guidelines for future interactions."
Alternatives: "a comprehensive agreement" or "a large arrangement".
There were few permanent population movements in Africa during the 20th century, although an extensive settlement of Hausa from northern Nigeria took place in what is now Sudan.
Modern archaeological excavations have revealed that Byblos was occupied at least by the Neolithic Period (New Stone Age; c. 8000 c. 4000 bc) and that during the 4th millennium bc an extensive settlement developed there.
These indicate an extensive settlement, where a Bronze Age palstave and Iron Age gold coins have been found.
There are two main attractions within the park: the Kaloko fishpond, an area of loko kuapa (rockwall fishponds) constructed of interlocking rocks across a natural embayment on the coast, and Honokōhau, a former extensive settlement on the south side of the park.
As the Prime Minister arrives in Washington, settler NGOs are launching a campaign to resume full and extensive settlement construction with robo-calls and adverts quoting the PM and other Likud leaders, speaking in favor of renewed of settlement growth.
In 1961, when construction began on the Dublin City Council headquarters at Wood Quay -- the area between the Liffey and Christ Church Cathedral in south Dublin -- an extensive Viking settlement was uncovered.
It might be better to speak of a Tang and a pre-Tang layer, or a Tang and a Han layer (the Han dynasty was characterized by extensive settlement in most parts of what is now China proper).
Extensive settlement, however, was still hundreds of years away.
In North Africa, by contrast, where the extensive settlement of Europeans from France, Italy, and Spain occurred, the growth of Arab nationalism and the emergence of independent states such as Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia led to the return of between one and two million colonists to their homelands in the late 1950s and early 1960s and to the political dominance of the indigenous peoples.
Early Khmer societies developed extensive settlement complexes that were largely made of non-durable materials.
The extensive settlement of Chan Chan cannot be analyzed and studied without using great scale images as the high resolution ones from the Quickbird satellite, used for the quantitative measurement of the deterioration and the detailed analysis of the landscape.
