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Old and Norse-speaking
Similarly, Vestmaðr ( English: Man from the West ) was an Old West Norse-speaking Briton.

Old and population
Among the early Old World cities, Mohenjo-daro of the Indus Valley Civilization in present-day Pakistan, existing from about 2600 BC, was one of the largest, with a population of 50, 000 or more.
The surviving tropical population of primates, which is seen most completely in the upper Eocene and lowermost Oligocene fossil beds of the Faiyum depression southwest of Cairo, gave rise to all living species — lemurs of Madagascar, lorises of Southeast Asia, galagos or " bush babies " of Africa, and the anthropoids: platyrrhine or New World monkeys, catarrhines or Old World monkeys, and the great apes, including humans.
* Old Sarum, England – population moved to nearby Salisbury although the owners of the archaeological site retained the right to elect a Member of Parliament to represent Old Sarum until the nineteenth century ( see William Pitt ).
According to conservative estimates, the introduction of the potato was responsible for a quarter of the growth in Old World population and urbanization between 1700 and 1900.
* Stare Miasto (" Old Town "), population 161, 200, area, covering the central and northern parts of the city
Some believe that the death of up to 95 % of the Native American population of the New World was caused by Old World diseases such as smallpox, measles, and influenza.
Hungarians ( Székely and other Magyars ; see Hungarians in Romania ), especially in Harghita, Covasna, and Mureş counties, and the Roma are the principal minorities, with a declining German population ( Banat Swabians in Timiş ; Transylvanian Saxons in Sibiu, Braşov and elsewhere ), and smaller numbers of Czechs, Slovaks, Serbs, Chinese, Croats, and Banat Bulgarians ( in Banat ), Ukrainians ( especially in Maramureş and Bukovina ), Greeks of Romania ( especially in Brăila and Constanţa ), Turks and Tatars ( mainly in Constanţa ), Armenians, Russians ( Lipovans, Old Believers in Tulcea ), Jews and others.
The vast majority of the human population of Scandinavia are Scandinavians, descended from several ( North ) Germanic tribes who originally inhabited the southern part of Scandinavia and what is now northern Germany, who spoke a Germanic language that evolved into Old Norse and who were known as Norsemen in the Early Middle Ages.
Old mining camps that have lost most of their population at some stage of their history, such as Aspen, Central City, Crested Butt, Cripple Creek, Deadwood, Marysville, Oatman, Park City, St. Elmo, Tombstone, and Virginia City, are sometimes included in the category, although they are active towns and cities today.
Over the first century and a half after Columbus's voyages, the native population of the Americas plummeted by an estimated 80 % ( from around 50 million in 1492 to eight million in 1650 ), mostly by outbreaks of Old World diseases but also by several massacres and forced labour ( the mita was re-established in the old Inca Empire, and the tequitlequivalent of the mitain the Aztec Empire ).
The city's population continued to swell with an influx of Mormon converts and Gold Rush gold seekers, making it one of the most populous cities in the American Old West.
Wells was listed in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Welle, from the Old English wiells, which was not listed as a town, but included four manors with a population of 132, which implies a population of 500 – 600.
Eventually, after the 16th and 17th centuries, and especially after the Anglican Reformation and the Plantation of Ulster, many of the " Old English " settlers were gradually assimilated into the Irish population, in large part due to their relative reluctance to give up Roman Catholicism ( those who worshiped in the Church of Ireland were rewarded with a higher status ).
Approximately one-third of East Prussia's population died in the plague and famine of 1709 – 1711, including the last speakers of Old Prussian.
In 1789, the population of Częstochowa ( also called Stara Częstochowa, Old Częstochowa ) was app.
In 1821, the government of Congress Poland carried out a census, according to which the population of New Częstochowa was 1, 036, while the population of Old Częstochowa was 2, 758.
As per 2003 census results, 63. 49 % of the population declared their native language as Serbian, compared to 21. 96 % who declared as Montenegrin, the latter being mainly concentrated in Old Montenegro.
Its population moved to Antalya, and Side became known as Eski Adalia (" Old Antalya ") and was buried.
K. A. Bard is more cautious and estimates the city's population to have amounted to about 6, 000 inhabitants during the Old Kingdom.
Until the 1980s and before the Fuzhou influx, what is now the western section of Chinatown or known as the Old Chinatown of Manhattan was the original size of Manhattan's Chinatown with The Bowery at the time serving as the original eastern borderline of Chinatown and this was where the Chinese population mostly concentrated on the Lower East Side, mostly the Cantonese.
Its population resides for the most part in the three Russian Old Believer villages of Voznesenka, Kachemak Selo, and Razdolna.

Old and settled
During this time, England played at a number of different venues across the country, though by the time of the 2006 World Cup qualifiers this had largely settled down to having Manchester United's Old Trafford stadium as the primary venue, with Newcastle United's St. James ' Park used on occasions where Old Trafford was unavailable.
In England, he settled back in the family home at Southwold, renewing acquaintance with local friends and attending an Old Etonian dinner.
Both the Parker Chronicle and Peterborough Chronicle annals of AD793 record the Old English name, Lindisfarena, which means " of the travellers from Lindsey ", indicating that the island was settled from the Kingdom of Lindsey, or possibly that its inhabitants travelled there.
The union of the regions of Transylvania, Maramureș, Crișana and Banat with the Old Kingdom of Romania was ratified in 1920 by the Treaty of Trianon, which recognised the sovereignty of Romania over these regions and settled the border between the independent Republic of Hungary and the Kingdom of Romania.
In 385, Jerome was forced out of Rome, and eventually settled in Bethlehem, where he was able to use a surviving manuscript of the Hexapla, likely from the nearby Theological Library of Caesarea Maritima, a columnar comparison of the variant versions of the Old Testament undertaken 150 years before by Origen.
The Vikings ( from Old Norse ) were the Norse explorers, warriors, merchants, and pirates who raided, traded, explored and settled in wide areas of Europe, Asia and the North Atlantic islands from the late 8th to the mid-11th century.
Bede offers a different, and probably older, account wherein Dál Riata was settled by a certain Reuda, which is more internally consistent, given that Old Irish Dál means portion or share, and is usually followed by the name of an eponymous founder.
The name is a souvenir of the Moors ( Maures in Old French ), Arabs and Berbers from North Africa, who settled on the coast of Provence in the 9th and 10th centuries.
The site of Andorra la Vella ( literally, " Andorra the Old ") has been settled since prior to the Christian era — notably by the Andosin tribe from the late Neolithic.
Referred to as the " Old Settlers ", a reunion is held every year in the Remus area to celebrate those that originally settled here.
The town was settled by a group of Old Believers of the Russian Orthodox Old-Rite Church around 1968, and remains a largely ethnic Russian town to this day.
Aleneva is a settlement of Russian Old Believers whose ancestors settled in Woodburn, Oregon after the October Revolution forced them out of Russia.
The east bank site of Old Copper Center apparently was settled in 1901 1902 by prospectors intent on investigating mineral prospects on that side of the river.
The area was settled in 1829 when Concord Methodist Church was organized near present today Old Stagecoach Road.
The area now known as Waycross was first settled around 1820, locally known as " Old Nine " or " Number Nine " and then Pendleton.
Going out from teh present town centre, the Old Town, the surrounding area was settled after the removal of the fortress nature of the town in 1869.
The Wood family settled in the vicinity of present-day West Seventh and Bethel Streets, near what would become known as the Old Rock Spring.
Old Greenbelt was settled in 1937 as a public cooperative community in the New Deal Era.
Old farm buildings of the countryside contribute to the landscape, and help define the history of the location, i. e. how farming took place in the past, and how the area has been settled throughout the ages.
The Old Village of Le Roy was the first area in the township to be settled.
Livingston was settled by emigrants from the older counties and others from the Upper South states of Kentucky and Tennessee, as well as Ohio and other " Old Northwest " states, as the westward migration continued.
Olivette was settled in the mid-19th century as a small farming community along an old Indian trail originally called the Bonhomme Road ( now known as Old Bonhomme, which meets and essentially turns into Olive Boulevard ).
In 1722, John Goffe settled beside Cohas Brook, later building a dam and sawmill at what was dubbed Old Harry's Town.

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