Sentence examples for peasant settlement from inspiring English sources

The present city profile traces the area's change from a peasant settlement to a major mountain city that is now undergoing major restructuring by globalization-driven processes.

Much of this rural settlement was the result of spontaneous peasant colonization based on a now largely lost communal farming (open-field) system.

This was a peasant village.

It was founded in 1651 by Frederick III as a settlement for Dutch peasants brought to nearby Amager Island.

Although Siberia was used as a place of exile for criminals and political prisoners, Russian settlement (by state peasants and runaway serfs) remained insignificant until the building of the Trans-Siberian Railroad (1891 1905), after which large-scale in-migration occurred.

On occasion, the court forcibly moved peasant farmers to new frontier settlements, along with government-owned slaves and convicts who performed hard labor.

Based on the idea that the Scots controlled much of modern Cumbria, it had been supposed that William Rufus's new castle at Carlisle and his settlement of English peasants in the surrounds was the cause.

He promoted large-scale foreign colonization and peasant resettlement in the south with only mediocre success so far as agricultural settlements went but with great success in the foundation and rapid growth of such towns and ports as Odessa, Kherson, Nikolayev, Taganrog, and Mariupol (Pavlovsk).

The socialist regime that came into office in 1970 expedited the expropriation process and the creation of settlement groups or cooperative farms under peasant committees.

According to documents produced in December 1940, the annexed territory would consist of nine French departments, and the Germanization action would require the settlement of a million Germans from "peasant families".

Some peasants lived in large settlements that numbered as many as 700 inhabitants.