The city's name comes from the location of its first settlement, on the left bank of the Bat River.
The first settlement of Cape Town was situated between Table Mountain and Table Bay.
In Veracruz they established the town of San Lorenzo de Los Negros (now called Yanga), the first settlement of freed African slaves in North America.
The works of Shakespeare have been an integral part of the American dream since the first settlement of the Thirteen Colonies, in part through the accident of timing.
And the first settlement of the Americas from Asia, genetically dated to about 15,000 years ago, matches the archaeology pretty well too.
We can look to the first settlement of this type with a bank – last November's deal with JPMorgan Chase – and draw some conclusions.
The deal, the first settlement of a government action against Mr. Merkin, was approved by a New York State judge late on Friday, according to the office of Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman.
In the first settlement of a lawsuit resulting from the collapse of the Enron Corporation two years ago, the network of foreign accounting firms once linked to Enron's auditor, Arthur Andersen, will pay $40 million, according to court papers.
Geneticists re-examining the first settlement of Australia and Papua-New Guinea by modern humans have concluded that the two islands were reached some 50,000 years ago by a single group of people who remained in substantial or total isolation until recent times.
But what we see now is something new: a speed of destruction that exceeds even that of the first settlement of the Americas, 14,000 years ago, when an entire hemisphere's ecology was transformed through a firestorm of extinction within a few dozen generations, in which the majority of large vertebrate species disappeared.
The ordinance declares that Texas was received into the Confederated States "as a commonwealth holding, maintaining and protecting the institution known as negro slavery -- the servitude of the African to the white race within her limits -- a relation that had existed from the first settlement of her wilderness by the white race, and which her people intended should exist in all future time".
