The earliest inhabitants of the islands were probably Arabs and Africans, the latter probably Bantu-speaking ; the earliest evidence of settlement of the islands dates from the eighth century.

The earliest wave dates back to hundreds of years as early marriage and high birthrates propelled Hindu settlement eastward across Nepal, then into Sikkim and Bhutan.

The oldest evidence of human settlement dates from the prehistoric era ; archeological finds from the north of Erfurt revealed human traces from the paleolithic period, ca.

The city was first officially mentioned in chronicles from 1004, although settlement dates to the 7th century.

According to several ancient sources, including occasions by the Dictionnaire de pédagogie et d ' instruction primaire by Ferdinand Buisson in 1887, the first French settlement in Senegal dates back to the Dieppe Mariners in the 14th century.

The settlement of South Sulawesi by modern humans is dated to c. 30, 000 BC on the basis of radiocarbon dates obtained from rock shelters in Maros.

Pottery shards found at the important site of Jarlshof also indicate that there was Neolithic activity there although the main settlement dates from the Bronze Age.

The dates of the initial settlement of Tonga are still subject to debate, nonetheless one of the oldest occupied sites is found in the village of Pea on Tongatapu.

Human settlement in Trinidad dates back at least 7, 000 years.

Archaeological evidence of the first permanent settlement on the site of modern Tartu dates to as early as the 5th century AD.

The earliest evidence of settlement in the region dates from the 8th century BC: the inhabitants were apparently linked with the Lusatian and East Pomeranian cultures.

* Interest at Maturity, usually loan or deposit given for special period with only two principal exchanges made at the settlement and maturity dates

Sehr al-Jedid ( near Orhei ), an important settlement of the Golden Horde, dates from this period.

* The earliest known settlement in Plymouth, England dates back to this era.

Fully documented Amerindian settlement dates to between about 350 to 650 AD, by a group known as the Saladoid-Barrancoid, who arrived from mainland South America.

The city was at the forefront of the Ostsiedlung, or intensive German settlement of the rural Slavic lands east of the Elbe, and its reception of city rights dates to 1332.

While evidence of settlement at present-day Wiesbaden dates back to the Neolithic era, historical records document continuous occupancy after the erection of a Roman fort in 6 AD which housed an auxiliary cavalry unit.

The Kunda Culture received its name from the Lammasmäe settlement site in northern Estonia, which dates from earlier than 8500 BC.

The first recorded mention of the settlement which would later become known as Rockville dates to the Braddock Expedition in 1755.

The city charter dates back to 1692, but settlement activity in the area dates back to the 14th century.

The ancient settlement of Brighthelmstone dates from before Domesday Book ( 1086 ), but it emerged as a health resort featuring sea bathing during the 18th century and became a destination for day-trippers from London after the arrival of the railway in 1841.

The earliest permanent settlement as proved by ceramic dating dates to 3500 BC by the Valdivia on the coast of Ecuador.

White settlement of the area probably dates from 1824, when a homestead or station was built on what is now the Acton peninsula by stockmen employed by Joshua John Moore.

The earliest settlement in Arnhem dates from 1500 BC, where traces have been found on the Hoogkamp, where the Van Goyenstraat is currently located.

It might be rough on Edythe at first, but Linda and John between them could make a settlement handsome enough to soothe her, to send her back to Cleveland or anywhere.

There had been settlement on this part of the Abens river since long before the High Middle Ages, dating back to Neolithic times.

Thus the use of abeyance provided the security of a settlement for the pro-life campus club, while preserving the student society's voting membership's ability to take the matter back to court should they choose in the future to deny resources to the club.

Bliss finally brought his lawyers back to the OCCC, and both parts reached a settlement:

The oldest settlement found in the region goes back to 125, 000 BCE.

Traces of human settlement that date back to 40, 000 BCE were found near Lake Kezanoi.

This has caused some scholars to conclude that the settlement turned its back on Gregory VII and Urban II's genuine hopes for reform.

The Maritimes are home to Mi ' kmaq, Maliseet and Passamaquoddy people and have an extensive history of French and British settlement dating back to the seventeenth century, forming a unique culture that predates Canada.

Today, very few of them still exist ; when the Keyboard Component was officially canceled, part of Mattel's settlement with the FTC involved offering to buy back all of the existing Keyboard Components from dissatisfied customers.

Jericho is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, with evidence of settlement dating back to 9000 BCE.

At the end of the day, the sails were unfurled, and the train cars whisked back to the settlement by the prevailing southeastern winds.

The settlement included 2 temples dating back to 9650.

One such girl is Marie, who wants to return home, and so hitches a ride back to the capital of Lalonde after settlement, in an attempt to return to Earth.

the start of the colonis in Syria go back to the beginning of human settlement in the stone age.

One of the Sotho-Tswana chiefs, Chief Moroko of the Barolong people, who had earlier fled the Difaqane to the south to create the settlement of Thaba Nchu, sent fresh livestock to Potgieter to draw his party's wagons back to the safety of the Rolong stronghold of Thaba Nchu, where the Sotho-Tswana chief offered the Boers food and protection.

** Daniel Boone leads the first attempt by British colonists to establish a settlement in Kentucky, but is turned back in an attack by American Indians in which his son is killed.

Muhammad Nawaf Hamad al-Taban, 17, of al-Zawaida, near Deir al-Balah, Gaza, killed by IDF gunfire to his back during a demonstration near the Kfar Darom settlement.

Though settlement in the area goes back to Roman times, the medieval town of Perpignan seems to have been founded around the beginning of the 10th century ( first mentioned in a document as villa Perpiniarum in 927 ).

Evidence for human settlement in the area now known as Palermo goes back at least to the Mesolithic period, perhaps around 8000 BC, when a group of cave drawings at nearby Addaura represent a new level in the representation of the human figure.

However, settlement in the area can be traced much further back in time — evidence given by two rock slabs carved with petroglyphs found at Bjørset, west of the city centre.

There is some evidence of Amerindian presence on the islands as far back as 1500 BC, although there is little academic support for the idea of a permanent settlement on any of the current British Virgin Islands at that time.