Sentence examples for lands settled from inspiring English sources

Generations of different migrants traveling by way of the Mediterranean from the Middle East and Africa and through Europe from Central Asia and the Nordic lands settled permanently in France, forming a variegated grouping, almost like a series of geologic strata, since they were unable to migrate any farther.

He has called immigrants "scum" and has proposed selling off lands settled by indigenous Brazilians and the descendants of enslaved Africans.

This existence was common throughout rural areas of the country, particularly the Southern highlands and swamps, the marginal lands settled by people from Ulster, the Scottish highlands and border regions of Britain that made their way to Philadelphia in late summer and autumn of 1717.

And she will be able to rear her sons on the land settled by their German forebears.

While I slept, Qinghai, a barren, inhospitable land settled by Chinese political prisoners in the nineteen-fifties and sixties, passed in the night.

The city grew from a ferry landing settled in 1757 by Quakers; it was named for John Lynch, the ferry operator who owned the original town site.

The country's capital is built on land settled without any negotiation or treaty or compensation, not even ten shillings and some frilly hats.

Nonindigenous landowners, meanwhile, many of whom live on land settled decades ago by their own ancestors under the government's so-called colonization programs, are just as attached to their claims.

The southern and the southeastern boundaries delimit it towards a matrix of farm and grazing land settled by subsistence farmers.

Could that explain why I had always felt at home in a land settled by Scots?

By 1930 the railway map of Victoria was largely complete, with the best land settled and the remaining land marginal for agriculture, with a number of lines built across the state border into the Riverina of NSW.