The settlement was called Shawomet.

Founded in the Ninth Century B.C. it was called Byzantium 200 years later when Byzas, ruler of the Megarians, expanded the settlement and named it after himself.

At the same time, a settlement of residences, saloons, and various industries grew around the wharf area called " Ocean View.

Connecticut's first European settlers were Dutch and established a small, short-lived settlement in present-day Hartford at the confluence of the Park and Connecticut rivers, called Huys de Goede Hoop.

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Their main settlement was located in the area now known as the city of Quito, and its inhabitants were called Quitus.

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It is also believed by the Rosicrucian organization AMORC, that Bacon would have influenced a settlement of mystics in North America, stating that his work " The New Atlantis " inspired a colony of Rosicrucians led by Johannes Kelpius, to journey across the Atlantic Ocean in a chartered vessel called Sarah Mariah, and move on to Pennsylvania in late XVII Century.

The fort was named " Fort William "' after William of Orange, and the settlement that grew around it was called " Maryburgh ", after his wife.

In the end an out-of-court settlement granted only £ 8600 for promoting the new alphabet, which is now called the Shavian alphabet.

Because Greater Poland was the settlement area of the Polans and the core of the early Polish state, the region was at times simply called " Poland " ( Latin Polonia ).

Christopher Columbus established a small settlement called La Navidad, near the modern town of Cap Haitien, built from the timbers of his wrecked ship Santa María, during his first voyage in December 1492.

A second settlement was established on the north coast in 1504 called Puerto Real near modern Fort Liberte-which in 1578 was relocated to a nearby site and renamed Bayaha.

There is a reference to a settlement called Kabura by the rulers of the Achaemenid Empire, which may be the basis for the future use of the name Kabura ( Κάβουρα ) by Ptolemy.

During the reign of the Kalhora Dynasty, the present city started life as a fishing settlement when a Sindhi Balochi fisher-woman called Mai Kolachi took up residence and started a family.

In the late 9th century, a Slavic Pomeranian fortified settlement was built at the site of modern part of Kołobrzeg county called Budzistowo near modern Kołobrzeg, replacing nearby Bardy-Świelubie, a multi-ethnic emporium, as the center of the region.

In the Scottish settlement of Glengarry County in present day Eastern Ontario, there is a lake called Loch Garry.

The Romans built a military camp, which they called Lousanna, at the site of a Celtic settlement, near the lake where currently Vidy and Ouchy are situated ; on the hill above was a fort called ' Lausodunon ' or ' Lousodunon ' ( The ' y ' suffix is common to many place names of Roman origin in the region ( e. g. ) Prilly, Pully, Lutry, etc .).

Brazilian law establishes no difference between cities and towns ; all it takes for an urban settlement to be called a " city " is to be the seat of a municipality, and some are very small.

Since independence, with Jaja Wachuku as the first Minister of Foreign Affairs and Commonwealth Relations, later called External Affairs, Nigerian foreign policy has been characterized by a focus on Africa as a Regional power and by attachment to several fundamental principles: African unity and independence ; Capability to exercise hegemonic influence in the region: peaceful settlement of disputes ; nonalignment and nonintentional interference in the internal affairs of other nations ; and regional economic cooperation and development.

During the first year of the settlement, which was also called " Sydney " like its parent, more convicts and soldiers were sent to the island from New South Wales.

Early maps do not, however, actually show a settlement called " Jamestown ", only " Morton's Bay ", and later maps show that all that was left of Jamestown / Morton's Bay in 1818 was a building labelled " Pleasure House ".

The earliest traces of human settlement in the Nuoro area ( called " the Nuorese ") are the so-called Domus de janas, rock-cut tombs dated at the third millennium BC.

A plea bargaining, also called as plea agreement or negotiated plea is an alternative and consensual way of criminal case settlement.

The Carthaginian general Hamilcar Barca established the fortified settlement of Akra Leuka ( Greek:, meaning " White Mountain " or " White Point "), where Alicante stands today.

Coconut Plantation, East Point ( former main settlement )

On Diego Garcia, the main plantations were located at East Point, the main settlement on the eastern rim of the atoll ; Minni Minni, north of East Point ; and Pointe Marianne, on the western rim, all located on the lagoon side of the atoll rim.

At a site now called Bloody Point, which housed the island's main Kalinago settlement, over 2, 000 Kalinago men were massacred, many of whom were from Waitikubuli, who had come overnight planning to attack the Europeans the day after.

* On the coast of New Hampshire, the settlement of Hilton's Point that will become Dover is established by men from London, England, the first European settlers in the state.

Memory of the early Finnish settlement lived on in place names near the Delaware River such as Finland ( Marcus Hook ), Torne, Lapland, Finns Point and Mullica.

After a lethal 1752 hurricane, the county courthouse was relocated from Town Point to Wantland ’ s Ferry ; this settlement was eventually incorporated in 1842 and named Jacksonville after President Andrew Jackson.

James Butler, from Ohio, followed in 1820 and settled in the Catlin area ; within a few years, the settlement grew to encompass several families and became known as " Butler's Point ".

With construction of Chapman Road from West Point, Georgia to Ft. Williams, Alabama on the Coosa River, land areas opened up to white settlement.

The original settlement in Noank along Elm Street ( Route 215 ) and east of it towards Morgan Point is listed as a historic district on the National Register of Historic Places.

This settlement was originally called Butler's Point when James Butler settled here in 1820.

The predecessor of the village of Onekama was the settlement of Portage at Portage Point, first established in 1845, at the western end of Portage, at the outlet of Portage Creek.

The first settlement in New Hampshire, originally named Pannaway, was established in 1623 at Odiorne's Point by a group of fishermen led by David Thompson.

Settled in 1623 as Hilton's Point by brothers William and Edward Hilton, London fishmongers, Dover is the oldest permanent settlement in New Hampshire, and the seventh oldest in the United States.

Until 1818, when the West Point Foundry was established by Gouverneur Kemble, Cold Spring was a small settlement nestled on the shores of the Hudson River near the river's narrowest point.

At the time, Southwest Point was on the fringe of the legal settlement area for Euro-Americans.

Somers Point was once known as the Somerset Plantation and its settlement started around 1693.

The first name given to the settlement was Omni Point, and Richfield was called Omni.

After the West family sold off parts of the plantation, a settlement started at what became called West Point, which had access to the York River.

Initially the settlement was called Point Elliott, the name given the location by the Wilkes Expedition in 1841.

" Camp Point Pleasant " was established by Col. Lewis at the time of the Battle and the settlement that followed also took that name.

The settlement at Point Pleasant did not receive an official charter until 1794.