Sentence examples for populated settlements from inspiring English sources
Today mainly populated by Kurds, many archaeologists consider Hasankeyf one of the world's oldest continuously populated settlements, inhabited by nine civilisations over some 10,000 years – including Neo-Assyrian, Roman, Persian, Byzantine and Ottoman.
The country's Jews were confined to densely populated settlements, or shtetls, for long stretches under the czars.
We included all types of populated settlements, encompassing isolated clusters of only a few houses to large cities.
Several densely populated settlements, notably the city of Catania, are found on the lower slopes, but settlements become less frequent as the height increases.
Densely populated settlements occur along the coast, in the Yoruba-inhabited area in the southwest, and in the Hausa- and Kanuri-inhabited areas of the far north.
Thus Buddhist monks, living not in forests but in retreats close to populated settlements, are traditionally bound to laymen by an ethic of social responsibility.
This, he and President Clinton proposed and Yasser Arafat rejected, would let Israel keep the densely populated settlement "blocks" abutting the old border (see map) and compensate the Palestinians with land elsewhere.Mr Sharon drove Mr Barak from office but in time he accepted his thinking.
Though one road essentially matched MacMillan's description, it was located next to a populated settlement rather than deserted as she had claimed.
I have just spent two days in Barcelona, one of the most densely populated urban settlements in the world.
Morning comes early at Thaingkhali, part of a group of camps that has grown to be one of the most densely populated refugee settlements in the world, with more than 800,000 residents.
It proposes that an interim Palestinian state would be established by the end of this year and a state with permanent borders by 2005.The outposts which Mr Sharon said would be removed are mainly sparsely populated hilltop settlements put up without the approval of the Israeli government.
