Sentence examples for areas of settlement from inspiring English sources

A coastal highway circles Viti Levu, and minor roads to the interior give access to most areas of settlement.

There is some evidence that ethnic minorities are moving into the predominantly white areas, but in numerical terms most of the growth by this group, particularly through migration, is taking place in the traditional areas of settlement.

Their three main areas of settlement were the hilly country between modern Eskişehir and Afyon; the central regions around their capital, Gordium; and the region around Ancyra (modern Ankara), where Phrygian tombs and architectural remains of the 8th 6th century have been found.

Palaeoenvironmental evidence for the character of lowland cultural landscapes during the last 2500 years in Britain is poorly understood, owing to a combination of an over-reliance on data from upland sequences, and because lowland mires are typically located in positions marginal to areas of settlement and agriculture.

Excluding Kingston upon Hull there are several areas of settlement in the East Riding, each giving rise to distinctive types of small to medium-sized towns and villages.

As the city grew the swamp was drained to become the new city's centre, and the hill was lowered by excavation to allow access between the two areas of settlement.

Each area of settlement preserved a cultural heritage strongly marked by adherence to either Roman Catholic or Protestant faith.

Its area of settlement had expanded well beyond the old walls of the ancient city, and many citizens ended up in the squalid shantytowns of the immediate countryside.

However, the FDI demonstrated that household reliance on forests varied with their area of settlement.

Most of the household heads lived in their area of settlement since birth, as evidenced from the mean length of residency of 40.26 (SD = 20.73) years.

In their study of Siberut Forests in Nepal, people who stayed longer in their area of settlement were highly dependent on forests compared to their counterpart, which was attributed to their familiarity with the complexities of their proximate environment.