It was therefore not until the publication of J.H. Round's `` The Settlement Of The South And East Saxons '', and W.H. Stevenson's `` Dr. Guest And The English Conquest Of South Britain '', that a scientific basis for place-name studies was established.

The Act of Settlement is an act of the Parliament of England that was passed in 1701 to settle the succession to the English and Irish crowns and thrones on the Electress Sophia of Hanover ( a granddaughter of James I ) and her Protestant heirs.

The Act of Settlement was thus passed and granted Royal Assent in 1701.

The Act of Settlement was, in many ways, the major cause of the union of Scotland with England and Wales to form the Kingdom of Great Britain.

The Parliament of Scotland was not happy with the Act of Settlement and, in response, passed the Act of Security in 1704, through which Scotland reserved the right to choose its own successor to Queen Anne.

Since the passage of the Act of Settlement, the most senior member of the Royal Family to have married a Roman Catholic, and thereby been removed from the line and later lines of succession, is Prince Michael of Kent, who married Baroness Marie-Christine von Reibnitz in 1978 ; he was fifteenth in the lines of succession at the time of his marriage.

In the Australian Capital Territory, the Act of Settlement was, on 11 May 1989, converted, from an act of the Parliament of England into an ACT enactment, by section 34 ( 4 ) of the Australian Capital Territory ( Self-Government ) Act 1988 ( Cwlth ), and then renamed The Act of Settlement 1700 by the Legislation Act 2001.

It was reported in October 2011 that the Australian federal government had reached an agreement with all of the states on potential changes to their laws in the wake of amendments to the Act of Settlement.

In 2002, O ' Donohue launched a court action that argued the Act of Settlement violates the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, but the case was dismissed by the court, which found that, as the Act of Settlement is part of the Canadian constitution, the Charter of Rights and Freedoms does not have supremacy over it.

With the announcement in 2007 of the engagement of Peter Phillips to Autumn Kelly, a Roman Catholic and a Canadian, discussion about the Act of Settlement was somewhat reinvigorated.

) Criticism of the Act of Settlement due to the Phillips-Kelly marriage was muted when Autumn Kelly converted to Anglicanism shortly before her marriage thus preserving her husband's place in the line of succession.

Adrian Hilton, writing in The Spectator in 2003, defended the Act of Settlement as not " irrational prejudice or blind bigotry " but claimed that it was passed because " the nation had learnt that when a Roman Catholic monarch is upon the throne, religious and civil liberty is lost.

The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act ( ANCSA ) was signed into law by President Richard M. Nixon on December 23, 1971, the largest land claims settlement in United States history.

In 1867 the Dual Monarchy was created ; Croatian autonomy was restored in 1868 with the Croatian – Hungarian Settlement which was comparatively favourable for the Croatians, but still problematic because of issues such as the unresolved status of Rijeka.

An example of this is the Royal Dutch Shell Oil Reserves Settlement that was declared binding upon both US and non-US plaintiffs.

The authorities made efforts to Germanize the region, particularly after the founding of Germany in 1871, and from 1886 onwards the Prussian Settlement Commission was active in increasing German land ownership in formerly Polish areas.

The religious issue which had divided the country since Henry VIII was in a way put to rest by the Elizabethan Religious Settlement, which re-established the Church of England.

As a result of the Pale of Settlement many Jews settled in Latgalia and were confined to the cities.

Settlement in Shefar ‘ am has existed without interruption since the Roman period, when it was one of the cities of the Sanhedrin.

The United States Department of Transportation, some U. S. cities, counties and toll-road operators, most Canadian provinces as well as the Hong Kong Highways Department, the Turkish Ministry of Public Works and Settlement and the Nigerian Association of Public Highway and Transportation Officials have non-voting associate memberships.

Many of the towns and cities belonged to the Pale of Settlement and had a substantial amount of Jewish population, while the Polish-speaking nobility was mostly Roman Catholic.

Settlement progressed rapidly during the spring and summer with the greater number of settlers located along the Neosho River.

Settlement came to Blandford and other " hilltowns " some 75 years after more fertile alluvial lowlands along the Connecticut River where tobacco and other commodity crops were cultivated.

Miller's Settlement refers to an area that straddled Clayton and Gaines geographical township area along what is now Morrish Road.

The Miller cut a road from Flint to Miller's Settlement along that route.

* McIntyre Settlement – A former hamlet along County Road 6 between Strong and Culver roads about 1 mile south of Mecklenburg.

Craig's Scotch-Irish Settlement was established in 1728, and is the oldest settlement in Northampton County along the Catasauqua Creek.

Settlement of Jackson began along the Forked Deer River before 1820.

However, a larger group congregated at what became known as the Lower Settlement just over a mile northwest of the present center of Spanish Fork along the Spanish Fork River.

Once called " Stringtown " due to the early homes being strung along a single road and the Weber River, Riverdale was also known as " Jack Thompson's Settlement " and " Union " before the name of Riverdale was given to the town.

It is recorded in Goodspeed's " History of Tennessee " that Gideon, along with an unspecified number of his siblings, arrived in the area of present-day Morristown from the Watauga Settlement, a short-lived semi-autonomous settlement located in northeast Tennessee that was originally leased from the resident Cherokee tribes during the 1770s.

Settlement continued southward along the river and was known as Petit Cote ( Small Coast ), which was a reference to the shorter length of river frontage compared to the Detroit side.

When river frontage along Petit Cote was occupied, settlement began to extend toward Lake St. Clair, which became known as the Assumption Settlement.

Settlement along the South American coast in what is today French Guiana began in 1624, and a colony was founded on Saint Kitts in 1625 ( the island had to be shared with the English until the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713, when it was ceded outright ).

In the mid nineteenth century Metis settlements became important along stretches of the rivers ( notably at the Southbranch Settlement, Prince Albert, Saskatchewan and St. Albert, Alberta ).

On 14 May 1607, the London Company established the Jamestown Settlement about 40 miles inland along the James River, a major tributary of the Chesapeake Bay in present-day Virginia.

His ( now ship-borne ) explorations found no Norse survivors along the western shore and future work was misled by the two mistaken beliefs both prevalent at the time that the Eastern Settlement would be located on Greenland's east coast ( it was later established it had been among the fjords of the island's extreme southwest ) and that a strait existed nearby communicating with the western half of the island.

Settlement in the valley consists of several booths, originally established in the 13th century as ' vaccaries ' ( cattle farms ) along the valley of the River Noe, which have since developed into the hamlets of Upper Booth ( once Crowdenley Booth and Over Booth ), Barber Booth ( once Whitmorely Booth ), Grindsbrook Booth, Ollerbrook Booth and Nether Booth ( also known as Lady Booth and, formerly, Lower Booth ).

In the late Wisconsin era, a land bridge across the Bering Strait allowed the first humans to reach North America from Asia ( an alternative theory is migration along the coast ; see Settlement of the Americas ).

In the centuries after his death, the importance of Dutch whalers actually led the settlements along Greenland's western coast to be called " Straat Davis " after their name for the Strait, while " Greenland " was used to refer to the eastern shore, erroneously presumed to be the site of the Norse Eastern Settlement.

Settlement in the area was scattered along a line some twelve kilometres ( 7. 5 mi ) in length.

The area centres on a section of Zhongshan Road ( East-1 Zhongshan Road ) within the former Shanghai International Settlement, which runs along the western bank of the Huangpu River, facing Pudong, in the eastern part of Huangpu District.

Municipally, Provideniya is subordinated to Providensky Municipal District and is municipally incorporated along with the former Rural Settlements of Novoye Chaplino and Sireniki as Provideniya Urban Settlement.

In 1915 a greater crisis arouse with the Jewish communities of the Pale of Settlement caught up in the fighting along the Eastern Front.