Population is confined to the lower slopes, with the upper limit of settlement at about 7,000 feet.
By the royal Proclamation of 1763, a line was drawn down the Appalachians marking the limit of settlement from the British colonies, beyond which Indian trade was to be conducted strictly through British-appointed commissioners.
During the years of Mexican control, the bay was put off limits to settlement by the authorities.
The extreme limit of Frankish settlement at this time is marked by the linguistic frontier that still divides the Romance-speaking peoples of France and southern Belgium from the Germanic-speaking peoples of northern Belgium, the Netherlands, and Germany.
For a very long time, it was thought that Exeter was the limit of Roman settlement in Britain in the south west, with the rest being inhabited by local unfriendly tribes.
As part of the Continental Divide, it was the limit of European settlement in the region at the time, with the land to the west reserved for the Ute people.
For nearly one decade, the German political and research-agenda has been to a large extent determined by the ongoing question of how to limit the expansion of settlement areas around cities in order to preserve natural resources, make settlement growth more sustainable and to strengthen the re-use of existing inner-urban areas (see a.o. Kötter et al. 2009a, 2010; Schetke et al. 2009, 2010b).
A condition that, as Piercarlo Palermo emphasises in his paper (Palermo 2014), cannot have as its prevalent base a notion of landscape limited to settlement environments with a low human impact, but that covers a more radical notion of urban landscape as an interweaving of forms, meanings and experiences of urban life.
The foundation has long been accused of stretching the limits of the tobacco settlement.
Discussing the limits of the mortgage settlement with voters would not be a winning electoral strategy, said James Tierney, director of the National State Attorneys General Program at Columbia Law School.
