Penal colony, distant or overseas settlement established for punishing criminals by forced labour and isolation from society.
Great Britain made its first tentative efforts to establish overseas settlements in the 16th century.
One exception to the overseas settlements was the Bank of Kuwait, which settled early last year with about 20 clients who had invested via its Swiss bank.
That long head start would have let the visitor predict correctly that today, most of the world's richest and most powerful countries would be Eurasian countries (and their overseas settlements in North America, Australia and New Zealand).
They were the prime movers in the more or less organized or, at any rate, remembered and recorded phase of Greek overseas settlement, a process known as colonization.
Oglethorpe petitioned King George II to allow the country's worthy poor a second chance in an overseas settlement, and then instituted laws that sought to erase class distinctions while prohibiting alcohol and slavery.
Given Euboean priority in overseas settlement, it is natural to suppose that the links implied by the traditions about the Lelantine War were the result of Euboean overseas energy, but that energy would hardly have turned casual contacts into actual alliances without a preliminary network of guest-friendships.
Migrants' emotional support for parents was a significant element of the changed meaning of filial piety for them following overseas settlement.
In the case of the one-child transnational families, where parents and only children are separated by distance and borders, the tension between the needs of ageing parents and a child's overseas settlement is likely to be increasingly accentuated.
According to these cultural ties, people migrated again to the world, especially to the traditional overseas Chinese settlements in the new migration trend after there form and opening up.
