Sentence examples for river settlements from inspiring English sources

But the threat of catastrophic disease has turned these river settlements into a corridor of fear.

The country's largest rivers are in Kalimantan, and include the Mahakam and Barito; such rivers are communication and transport links between the island's river settlements.

Prior to the river settlements, the region was inhabited for at least 11,000 years by nomadic tribes that hunted now extinct animal species.

In Chinese, "Kangchu" (Chinese: 港主, Pinyin: Gáng Zhǔ, Teochew: Kaang6 Zhu8) literally means 'lord of the river', and was the title given to the Chinese headmen of these river settlements.

The archaeologists at the site – known as Must Farm – believe that the extended family that built and lived in the stilted river settlement was very wealthy.

In the Netherlands, Germany and Switzerland, late Bronze Age people sometimes lived in  stilted villages on lakes – but the Must Farm site is an ultra-rare example of a stilted river settlement.

A young man (played by Felix Lajko) returns home to a Hungarian river settlement after a long absence and encounters his mother and her male companion, who don't appear very glad to see him, and his sister (played by Orsi Toth), who does.

Nine years later he returned to the Three Rivers settlement in New France and became the colony's official interpreter.

Originally called the Outlet because of its location where the lake empties into the river, the settlement adopted an abbreviation of Memphremagog for its name in 1855, when it was incorporated as a town.

In addition to legal recognition of the personhood of the Whanganui river, the settlement provided financial redress to the iwi of NZ$80m, and an additional NZ$1m contribution to establish the legal framework for the river.

Bistriţa ("swift"), Crasna ("nice" or "red"), Sibiu ("dogwood"), and many other rivers and settlements with names of Slavic origin also evidence the presence of Slavs in Transylvania.