" The Greeks, who were the most dominant culture on the island of Sicily due to the powerful city state of Syracuse to the east, instead called the settlement Panormus.

After the Norman conquest the population of the Maltese islands kept growing mainly through immigration from the north ( Sicily and Italy ), with the exile to Malta of the entire male population of the town of Celano ( Italy ) in 1223, the stationing of a Norman and Sicilian garrison on Malta in 1240 and the settlement in Malta of noble families from Sicily between 1372 and 1450.

Although the Carthaginians recaptured the city in 255 BC the final peace settlement gave Punic Sicily and with it Akragas to Rome.

The History of Sicily from the Earliest Times: From the beginning of Greek settlement to the beginning of Athenian intervention.

Outside Spain, in Palermo, Sicily, the district called Cassaro corresponds to the Punic settlement of Zis, on high ground that was refortified by Arabs and called القصر al qasr, and was further expanded as the site of the later Norman palace.

By the 12th century, Swabian kings granted immigrants from northern Italy ( particularly Piedmont, Lombardy and Liguria ), Latium in central Italy, and the south of France settlement into Sicily, re-establishing the Latin element back to Sicily, a legacy which can be seen in the many Gallo-Italic dialects found in the interior and western parts of Sicily, brought by these settlers.

The first settlement in the place of today's town of Vis was built in the fourth century BC by Greek colonists from Sicily under the name of Issa.

In 2007 the Los Angeles J. Paul Getty Museum was forced to return 40 artifacts, including a 5th century BC statue of the goddess Aphrodite, which was looted from Morgantina, an ancient Greek settlement in Sicily.

The specific epithet thapsus had been first used by Theophrastus ( as θάψος, " thapsos ") for an unspecified herb from the Ancient Greek settlement of Thapsos, near modern Syracuse, Sicily, though it is often assimilated to the ancient Tunisian city of Thapsus.

: Examining the geography and bathymetry of the globe to find a spot in the ocean where to establish a permanent research settlement I came upon Seamount Ampere, east of Gibraltar, and Skerki Bank near Sicily.

The war secured the Spanish throne for the Bourbon Philip as Philip V of Spain at the Peace of Utrecht but in the war's settlement, Spain had to give up the Spanish Netherlands, Naples, Milan, Sardinia, Sicily, Gibraltar and Minorca to the Habsburg allies.

In the 12th century, William II of Sicily built a cathedral here and further enlarged the settlement.

Then, after overtures to accept a settlement and go through with a divorce, Miriam gave a ghastly echo of Mrs. Micawber by suddenly stating, `` I will never leave Mr. Wright ''.

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.

A new settlement close to Amathus but further inland, Agios Tychonas, is named after the bishop Saint Tychon of Amathus.

The local Ojibwa named the settlement kaw-goosh-kaw-nick, after the sound of Allen's sawmill.

Shortly after establishing the settlement at Port Jackson, on 15 February 1788, Phillip sent Lieutenant Philip Gidley King with 8 free men and a number of convicts to establish the second British colony in the Pacific at Norfolk Island.

The settlement was named Meyerton after Captain H. A.

Londinium was a relatively new settlement, founded after the conquest of 43AD, but it had grown to be a thriving commercial centre with a population of travellers, traders, and, probably, Roman officials.

The central-bank money after aggregate settlement – " final money " – can take only one of two forms:

Following the defeat of Japan in 1945, the war between the KMT and the CPC resumed, after failed attempts at reconciliation and a negotiated settlement.

The village was incorporated as a city in 1877 and renamed Cadillac, after Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, a Frenchman who made the first permanent settlement at Detroit in 1701.

In the early days of European settlement in North Dakota, American beavers were the most valued and sought after furbearers, though other species were also taken, including coyotes.

It was founded, as Nea Korinthos or New Corinth in 1858, after an earthquake destroyed the existing settlement of Corinth, which had developed in and around the site of ancient Corinth.

Goyder named the settlement Palmerston, after the British Prime Minister Lord Palmerston.

Ships may be lost if the attack is unsuccessful, but after three successful attacks, the pirate fortress is converted into a settlement.

For 20 years, Yale was part of the British East India Company, and he became the second governor of a settlement at Madras ( now Chennai ), India, in 1687, after Streynsham Master.

The town grew up as a settlement next to a fort constructed to control the population after Oliver Cromwell's invasion during the English Civil War, and then to suppress the Jacobite uprisings of the 18th century.

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

This settlement was later renamed " Gordonsburgh ", and then " Duncansburgh " before being renamed " Fort William ", this time after Prince William, Duke of Cumberland ; known to some Scots as " Butcher Cumberland ".

Most of the place-names date from after the ninth-century Norse settlement of the Northern Isles.

The name of a settlement was recorded after St. Adalbert's death in 997 AD as urbs Gyddanyzc and later was written as Kdanzk ( 1148 ), Gdanzc ( 1188 ), Danceke ( 1228 ), Gdansk ( 1236, 1454, 1468, 1484, 1590 ), Danzc ( 1263 ), Danczk ( 1311, 1399, 1410, 1414 – 1438 ), Danczik ( 1399, 1410, 1414 ), Danczig ( 1414 ), Gdąnsk ( 1636 ).

Mudbrick buildings just south of Khufu's Valley Temple contained mud sealings of Khufu and have been suggested to be a settlement serving the cult of Khufu after his death.

The settlement was named Itascatown after the USCGC Itasca that brought the colonists to Howland and made regular cruises between the other Line Islands during that era.

The Hebrides were settled during the Mesolithic era around 6500 BC or earlier, after the climatic conditions improved enough to sustain human settlement.

This settlement served as the capital of both Spanish and English Jamaica from its foundation in 1534 until 1872 after which the capital was moved to Kingston.

The defeat of Lempira's revolt, and the decline in fighting among rival Spanish factions all contributed to expanded settlement and increased economic activity in Honduras.

After the defeat of the Persians by the Greeks, Lycia became open to further Greek settlement.

These sixteen categories are pramāṇa ( valid means of knowledge ), prameya ( objects of valid knowledge ), saṁśaya ( doubt ), prayojana ( aim ), dṛṣṭānta ( example ), siddhānta ( conclusion ), avayava ( members of syllogism ), tarka ( hypothetical reasoning ), nirṇaya ( settlement ), vāda ( discussion ), jalpa ( wrangling ), vitaṇḍā ( cavilling ), hetvābhāsa ( fallacy ), chala ( quibbling ), jāti ( sophisticated refutation ) and nigrahasthāna ( point of defeat ).

Britain ceded control of the territory back to Spain in 1783, after its defeat in the American Revolutionary War, and The settlement at the Cow Ford continued to grow.

The area was made safe for white settlement in 1794 through the defeat of the Shawnee at the Battle of Fallen Timbers by General " Mad " Anthony Wayne.

After their defeat in the Blackhawk War in 1832, settlement proceeded quickly.

After the Dutch arrival to the region in the 1620s, the Lenape were successful in restricting Dutch settlement to Pavonia in present-day Jersey City along the Hudson until the 1660s and the Swedish settlement to New Sweden ( 1655-The Dutch defeat the Swedes on the Delaware ).

The states were encouraged to settle their claims by the US government's de facto opening of the area to settlement following the defeat of Great Britain.

The Allies had confidently expected that victory in a major set-piece battle would compel Louis XIV to accept peace on Allied terms, but after Malplaquet ( the bloodiest battle of the war ), that strategy had lost its validity: Villars had only to avoid defeat for a compromise peace settlement to become inevitable.

After the defeat of the uprising, the administrative centre of the Roman province moved to the newly established commercial settlement of Londinium ( London ).

This was a substantial Māori settlement, so to the British it was a victory, but the Māori warriors escaped with their arms, so the Māori did not see it as defeat.

Some of the members argued that the offensive represented an opportunity to defeat the North Vietnamese on American terms while others pointed out that neither side could win militarily, that North Vietnam could match any troop increase, that the bombing of the North be halted, and that a change in strategy was required that would seek not victory, but the staying power required to reach a negotiated settlement.

Duarte directed military actions against the French-allied Caetés Indians and upon their defeat in 1537 established a settlement at the site of a former Marin Indian village, henceforth known as Olinda, as well as another village at Igarassu.

Following the defeat and the subsequent confiscation of 1. 2 million acres of their homelands the King Movement tribes were left with a legacy of sadness, poverty, and bitterness that would last for generations, which was partly assuaged in 1995 when the Waikato Tainui tribe completed negotiations with the NZ government and accepted a settlement package worth approximately 1 percent of the value of the lands confiscated in 1863.

That case against two Security Trust executives and one banker had appeared to be Spitzer's strongest, and the settlement seemed to reflect Spitzer's weakening hand in the wake of his defeat in the Sihpol case.

After the bloody defeat from Dacian forces under the leadership of king Burebista ( shortly after the middle of 1st century BC ) rest of the Celts retreated to the site of Devín, creating a smaller, more easily protectable hill-fort settlement.

He was involved in the settlement of the terms of peace after the defeat of the Schmalkaldic League at the Battle of Mühlberg in 1547, a settlement in which, to say the least, some particularly sharp practice was exhibited.

Britain won virtually all the major battles of this war, and in the final settlement, the Treaty of Gandamak, saw a government installed which was both by personality and law receptive to British demands ; however, the human and material costs and relative brutality of the brief guerilla war ( the war resulted in great loss of life on all sides, including civilians ) became major issues in the defeat of Disraeli's Conservative government by Gladstone's Liberals in 1880.

< p align = justify > A few years after their defeat, the survivors of the said battle who fled to Silae slowly returned to the area ans established a new settlement near the Sacub River ( present-day Rizal Park ) under the protection of Datu Mampaalong.

Survey parties accompanied by federal troops, railroad construction, permanent settlement and development, along with the discovery of gold in nearby South Dakota, all served as a backdrop leading up to the Battle of the Little Bighorn and the defeat of General George Armstrong Custer in 1876.

The last great resistance to white settlement in the area was during the War of 1812, when Tecumseh led a war against the Americans that ended in the defeat of him and his people.