The presence of large settler populations delayed the achievement of self-government by the African peoples of South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Angola, and Mozambique and resulted in much bitterness between the indigenous peoples and settlers.
And the two towns alone account for half of all settler growth, so if removed from the equation, the larger settler challenge takes on more manageable proportions.
Though the stage upto here is clear, the contribution and role of this sizably large earliest settlers' component in the contemporary Indian populations, coupled with later migrations during the last 10 thousand years (ky) from west and east of the subcontinent has been an issue of controversy.
It is a continuous process, done in large mixer-settlers.
Settlement opponents disagree, saying that the larger the settler population, the more resources — water, roads, security — will be needed for them and the harder it will be to get Israelis to agree to a Palestinian state.
With the discovery of coal, a large influx of settlers led to an early breakdown of the isolation of this part of the Appalachians.
Reclamation of its alluvial marshlands for paddy-rice cultivation early in the 20th century attracted a large number of settlers, primarily Burmans and Karens.
In Vestlandet the industrial city of Stavanger has attracted large numbers of settlers and has continued to expand as Norway's oil capital.
It became profitable to have free tenant farmers, rather than serfs, cultivate the land, which attracted large groups of settlers from as far away as the Rhineland and the Low Countries.
A large group of settlers moved into the house, close to the religious site known as the Tomb of the Patriarchs to Jews and the Ibrahim Mosque to Muslims, in the early hours of last Thursday under police and army protection.
