The vacancies were partly filled by foreign settlers who were soon assimilated.
Later they took words from foreign settlers: chowder and prairie from the French, scow and sleigh from the Dutch.
Why? "For many centuries it needed a permanent influx of foreign settlers in order to compensate for its high death rate.
The Feria's gardens, decorated with little wooden figurines and a large red windmill, had a curiously European feel to them; I had read that this Panamanian valley was home to quite a few foreign settlers from Germany, Switzerland and Croatia.
He saw it as enlightened self-interest to ensure equal rights for foreign settlers and their families, a policy that made Stuttgart an example of successful integration for other cities to follow.
They included the former Rhodesian white minority leader Ian Smith and other champions of white minority rule who got their economic start in life in 1945 by defining African farmers as squatters and throwing them – without compensation – off land that the foreign settlers' government designated as the exclusive preserve of white people.
With widely open access to China that the Silk Road to the west facilitated, many foreign settlers were able to move east to China, while the city of Chang'an itself had about 25,000 foreigners living within.
Indeed, Mr. Larsen's battle is being watched closely throughout Santa Cruz, where foreign agricultural settlers include Brazilians, Canadian Mennonites, Okinawans and a handful of Americans.
One of the Anuak elders, Ochodo Obang, sees all Nuer settlers as foreign colonisers.
Other immigrants came to Trinidad after 1838 from the smaller British Caribbean colonies, Africa (as free settlers rescued from foreign slave ships), Madeira, China, Syria, Lebanon, Venezuela, and the United Kingdom.
