Sentence examples for centres of settlement from inspiring English sources

Plymouth and its environs were the main centres of settlement.

These pyramids became the focal point of Mesoamerican ceremonial life, as well as the centres of settlement.

Food plant selections would also have been made in the ten or so other centres of settlement that occurred around the world at this time.

It was there that the Germans established their centre of settlement during their colonization of Papua New Guinea in the 19th century.

The colony was to be a trading post and a centre of settlement, but the rugged, forested inlets of the Nova Scotian peninsula, the heavy forests of the St . JohnRiver, and the many bays and beaches of Cape Breton and Prince Edward islands made it impossible to enforce the monopoly of the fur trade against enterprising interlopers.

Four other significant urban centres Rancagua, Talca, Chillán, and Temuco are located to Santiago's south along a longitudinal railroad constructed midway between the Andes and the coastal range; each city is a centre of settlement of Chile's rich agricultural hinterlands outside Santiago.

The original church was established at Oxford Island on the shore of Lough Neagh in 1411, but a new church was built in Lurgan on the site of what is now Shankill Cemetery in 1609 as the town became the main centre of settlement in the area.

The legal battles, winding their way through the German courts and the World Bank's international centre for settlement of investment disputes in Washington, are not expected to be resolved until 2015.

The settlement developed after 1502 around a Portuguese fort and, as Mazagan, became the centre of Portuguese settlement and their last stronghold (1769) against the Filālī (Alaouite) sultans.

Goroka is a centre of European settlement in the central highlands and a commercial and transportation hub for the region.

At the far end of the favela, where the homes are most precarious and where the water simply doesn't reach, families come to collect water from a tap in the centre of the settlement.