Sentence examples for inhabited settlements from inspiring English sources

Tourist brochures have long described Varanasi, India's holiest city and one of the oldest continually inhabited settlements in the world, as "eternal" or "unchanging".

It all began, though, in Nagada, one of the oldest inhabited settlements in the world.

That these villages, the world's northernmost inhabited settlements, survive owes much to the Hurtigruten fleet.

Both contained some of the earliest inhabited settlements in North America, both had a strong maritime and fishing tradition, and both are blessed, though some might say cursed, by long stretches of sandy beach and proximity to a major population center.

Travel to the country's north and you'll find the historic port town of Acre, one of the oldest continuously inhabited settlements of modern israel.

It is the world's oldest continually inhabited settlement, dating to the fifth millennium B.C.

Although the state of Baja California has long been inhabited, settlement of the area has been sparse.

She grew up in the Acoma pueblo, a Pueblo Indian community and the oldest continuously inhabited settlement in North America.

The 1972 Island of Rockall Act formally declared it as part of Invernesshire, even though the nearest permanently inhabited settlement is 228 miles away in the Outer Hebrides.

Aleppo, which can lay claim to being the world's oldest continuously inhabited settlement of substantial size, has had a symbiotic relationship with its citadel over the centuries.

"We Hopi, we just do what we do," a woman in Old Oraibi, the oldest continuously inhabited settlement in North America, told me.