Sentence examples for extensive settlement from inspiring English sources

Extensive settlement, however, was still hundreds of years away.

Early Khmer societies developed extensive settlement complexes that were largely made of non-durable materials.

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.

Al-Maʿādi was an extensive settlement that traded with the Middle East and probably acted as an intermediary for transmitting goods to the south.

Meanwhile, Begin inaugurated a policy to strengthen Israel's hold on the West Bank through an extensive settlement program overseen by Ariel Sharon, the minister of agriculture.

The Niari basin attracted extensive settlement after World War II, spurred by the construction of the Brazzaville Pointe-Noire railway through the Niari valley.

There also was extensive Roman settlement in the county.

Angkor, the most extensive urban settlement of pre-industrial times, is now an archaeological park in northwestern Cambodia.

Considered the most extensive urban settlement of pre-industrial times, and boasting a highly sophisticated water management system, Angkor's supposed decline has long occupied archaeologists.

The problem all along has been that certain things never changed -- anti-Israel terror and incitement on the Palestinian side, extensive Jewish settlement building in the West Bank and Gaza Strip by Israel.

After opening Eritrea to private capital and extensive land settlement, Baratieri attempted, in 1895, to extend its borders into Ethiopia but was gravely defeated by the forces of the Ethiopian emperor, Menilek II, in the Battle of Adwa in 1896.