Sentence examples for settlement of the area from inspiring English sources

More than 50 megalithic funerary monuments (hunebedden, "huns' graves") attest to prehistoric settlement of the area.

Anglo-Saxon settlement of the area began in the 5th century.

Although the state of Baja California has long been inhabited, settlement of the area has been sparse.

The original road, which facilitated settlement of the area, has been replaced by a modern highway that is called Cariboo Highway along part of its extent.

Settlement of the area began in 1820 when John Kelly built a cabin on what is now the corner of Second and Jefferson streets.

Settlement of the area dates to Roman times or earlier, and many of its place-names may be of ancient derivation.

Before the white settlement of the region, the area that is now East Lansing was a combination of dense virgin oak forest and tamarack swampland.

The aboriginal settlements of the area were involved in more or less constant low-level warfare with each other (head-hunting raids and looting of property), and an alliance with Sinkan put the Dutch at odds with the foes of that village.

The highway passes alongside the Resurrection Creek, which was the source for the settlement of this area.

The results from our excavations at Mochena Borago Rock-shelter and evidence from open-air-sites that were recorded during intensive surveys on the slopes and plateau of the mountain, allow a first reconstruction of the settlement history of the area.

Known as the Franches Montagnes (French: "Free Mountains"), a name acquired in 1384 when the bishop of Basel freed the inhabitants from taxation to encourage settlement of the remote area, this tableland is characterized by mixed agriculture and dairying.