Sentence examples for coast settlements from inspiring English sources

The city became their chief port, a major slave market, and their administrative centre from which they destroyed or seized the Crimean coast settlements of their rival Venetians and virtually monopolized Black Sea trade.

Early attempts to penetrate it from the west coast settlements were made by Edward Whymper in 1867, by Baron Nordenskiöld in 1870 and 1883, by J.A.D. Jensen in 1878, and by Peary in 1886.

In the 17th and 18th centuries, West African rituals fused with Catholicism and metamorphosed into Haitian voodoo, Cuban Santería and Brazilian Candomblé; returning slaves in the 18th century then transported this syncretic form of vodun back to Ouidah and other African coast settlements.

In 1686, the Company shifted its main holdings from Surat to Bombay, which had become the administrative centre of all the west coast settlements then.

Realising the Japanese occupation of the north coast settlements of the Huon Gulf was imminent, McNicoll declared a state of emergency, handing over control to the NGVR second-in-command, Major Edmund Jenyns.

Unfussy, wallet-friendly and convivial – this inn is ideally positioned on the beach in Soufrière, St Lucia's largest west coast settlement.

Though the West Coast settlement has far outgrown its East Coast namesake, the two US cities remain oddly similar.

Robert Hamerton was the first public trustee for the West Coast Settlement Reserves.

The rest of the farm had been West Coast Settlement Reserve land too, he said looking over his shoulder back towards the mountain, but his father, John, had "converted" it some time ago so the Mullins owned it outright.

The 1915 Partition Order for Orimupiko Block 22 was issued under Section 21 of the West Coast Settlement Reserves Amendment Act 1913 and 1914 and the Native Land Act 1909.

The United States held that the pledge not to "occupy" required renunciation on Britain's part of certain interests, viz., a protectorate over the Mosquito Coast, a settlement in British Honduras and the Bay Islands.