While at the time the process was openly referred to as colonization (" takushoku " 拓殖 ), the notion was later reframed by Japanese elites to the currently common usage " kaitaku "( 開拓 ), which instead conveys a sense of opening up or reclamation of the Ainu lands.

In Commentaries on the Laws of England ( Bk I, ch. 4, pp 106 – 108 ), Sir William Blackstone described the process by which English common law followed English colonization:

Those voyages, and his efforts to establish permanent settlements on the island of Hispaniola, initiated the process of Spanish colonization, which foreshadowed the general European colonization of what became known as the " New World ".

This effectively began the process of colonization, although French control of Casablanca was not formalised until 1910.

The ecology of metapopulations is a dynamic process of extinction and colonization.

The colonization process is completed in 1162.

* March – Treaty of Alcaraz, the king of Castile turns the independent Muslim kingdom of Murcia into a protectorate and initiates the process of colonization and christianization of the region.

Parasites employ numerous strategies for getting from one host to another, a process sometimes referred to as parasite transmission or colonization.

An increasing number of scholars and analysts describe contemporary Muslim immigration to Europe as a process of colonization.

The specific aquatic ancestors of the tetrapods, and the process by which land colonization occurred, remain unclear, and are areas of active research and debate among palaeontologists at present.

During the second half of the 19th century, there was an intense process of colonization of the territory in the form of latifundia.

It was a metaphor for the idealized process of immigration and colonization by which different nationalities, cultures and " races " ( a term that could encompass nationality, ethnicity and race ) were to blend into a new, virtuous community, and it was connected to utopian visions of the emergence of an American " new man ".

Despite the number of Caribs and their well-known warring culture, they would end up dominated or exterminated by the Spaniards in the process of conquest and colonization.

Another early process is physical breakup or fragmentation of the plant material into smaller bits which have greater surface area for microbial colonization and attack.

However, in the end of the series, the Earth is doomed to a slow radioactive process that will leave the planet uninhabitable, causing a more rapid expansion of colonization from Earth.

The Scramble for Africa, also known as the Race for Africa or Partition of Africa was a process of invasion, occupation, colonization and annexation of African territory by European powers during the New Imperialism period, between 1881 and World War I in 1914.

Due to the severe depopulation, a process of organized colonization commenced that lasted for several decades.

The evolving structure of colonial government was not fully formed until the third quarter of the 16th century ; however, los Reyes Católicos designated Juan Rodríguez de Fonseca to study the problems related to the colonization process.

Ecological succession is the phenomenon or process by which an ecological community undergoes more or less orderly and predictable changes following disturbance or initial colonization of new habitat.

Tau Kappa Epsilon also had an interest group on campus in the 1990s ; however, the group never became a chartered chapter. Delta Tau Delta began their colonization process in March 2012.

Polish colonization and Polonization of the upper class soon became replaced by a systematic process of Russification, culminating in the Ems Ukaz of 1876, which restricted the printing of books in Ukrainian language.

In light of this, historians have sought to define romanitas using a number of approaches: one way is to consider the general ideals Romans attributed to themselves ; another approach, which has achieved consensus amongst scholars, is to consider the construction of Roman identity during the process of colonization.

A very limited amount of interbreeding could explain the findings, if it occurred early enough in the colonization process.

British colonization was particularly strong in the Bay Islands, and alliances between the British and Miskito as well as more local supporters made this an area the Spanish could not easily control and a haven for pirates.

Full European colonization did not come, however, until the early 20th century, when the area would be divided between:

* Planning Publicizing, and Politicking a vision of Mars colonization in the Dallas area and beyond.

The Roman commander quickly abandoned the area, however, deeming it too poor to warrant colonization.

The only documented inhabitants of Uruguay before European colonization of the area were the Charrúa, a small tribe driven south by the Guaraní of Paraguay.

The only documented inhabitants of Uruguay before European colonization of the area were the Charrua, a small tribe driven south by the Guaraní of Paraguay.

The area that would become Frederick County, Virginia was inhabited and transited by various indigenous peoples for thousands of years before European colonization.

The area they covered before Russian colonization was 301, 500 km² ( 116, 410 mi² ), roughly corresponding to the Koryak Okrug, of which the administrative centre is Palana.

On March 25, 1584, Queen Elizabeth I granted Raleigh a charter for the colonization of the area of North America known as Virginia.

Early interaction of these Native Americans with Europeans came with the Spanish colonization via the establishment of missions in this area, with the missions in San Jose, Sonoma, and San Francisco and particularly the establishment of a Presidio ( a military establishment ) in 1776.

After the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railroad the Russian colonization of the area strongly increased.

By the time of English colonization, there were 32 Algonquian-speaking American Indian tribes in the present-day coastal Tidewater Virginia area, including those of the Patawomeck and numerous tribes that were part of the Powhatan Confederacy.

It is also one of the few to retain a name which derived from the Native Americans who inhabited the area before colonization by the English began in the 17th century.

Within a decade of the Native American immigration, Spanish authorities showed an interest in opening the area to colonization by Americans.

The area had been home to the historic Muscogee-speaking Creek ; Yuchi, people speaking a language isolate ; and Iroquoian-speaking Cherokee for years prior to European colonization.

Prior to 1782, with the exception of occasional failed colonization schemes, the Europeans ignored the vast Ouachita Valley, which extended from the area around Hot Springs, Arkansas southward towards the Mississippi River in Louisiana.

A government survey in 1831 laid out the Sabine area in townships and sections and this, together with the clearing of the Red River " raft " by Henry Miller Shreve, in 1838, opened the Red River to steamboat traffic and gave impetus to the colonization of the area.

Mesoamerica or Meso-America () is a region and culture area in the Americas, extending approximately from central Mexico to Honduras and Nicaragua, within which a number of pre-Columbian societies flourished before the Spanish colonization of the Americas in the 15th and 16th centuries.

It was named by French explorers in the area in the early 18th century to describe the unique location in the Wabash Valley and beside the Wabash River ( see French colonization of the Americas ).

The land grant was a reward for his military service during the establishment of the Franciscan Missions in California while being the attendant of colonization for the area.

Beginning in 1664 British colonization began ; after a series of wars between the Dutch and English, the area stabilized under British rule, with strong influences from the Quaker communities under the auspices of Proprietor William Penn.

Though the Jacksonville Beaches region was one of the first parts of what is now the continental United States to see settlement during the period of European colonization, the area of Jacksonville Beach itself was not settled until the 19th century.

At the time of European colonization, the area was home to the Hackensack tribe of the Lenape, who maintained a large settlement to the north on Overpeck Creek.

Prior to colonization by white settlers, the area was inhabited at different times by Potawatomi and Iroquois native people.