In early medieval Riez in upper Provence, alluvial silt from two small rivers raised the riverbeds and widened the floodplain, which slowly buried the Roman settlement in alluvium and gradually moved new construction to higher ground ; concurrently the headwater valleys above Riez were being opened to pasturage.

From their settlement south of Bondoukou, the Abron gradually extended their hegemony over the Juula in Bondoukou, who were recent émigrés from the market city of Begho.

According to the descriptions of Strabo, Dio Cassius and other Graeco-Roman geographers, the lands of Asturias were inhabited in the beginning of the Christian era by several peoples, amongst whom the more important were: From the Cantabrians, the Vadinienses, who inhabited the Picos de Europa region and whose settlement gradually expanded southward during the first centuries of the modern era ; the Orgenomesci, who dwelled along the Asturian eastern coast ; and from the Astures, the Saelini, whose settlement extended through the Sella valley ; the Luggones, who had their capital in Lucus Asturum and whose territories stretched between the rivers Sella and Nalón ; the Astures ( in the strictest sense ), who dwelled in inner Asturias, between the current councils of Piloña and Cangas del Narcea ; and the Paesici, who had settled along the coast of Western Asturias, between the mouth of the Navia river and the modern city of Gijón.

For some reason, settlement persisted at the same spot, and gradually the site rose above the marshes-partly from the accumulation of debris, and partly through the efforts of the inhabitants.

In 1881 the Texas and St. Louis Railroad laid out the town of Rector about two miles to the south of an existing settlement named Scatterville, and the population of Scatterville gradually migrated to the new and booming town.

Although nearby Madisonville, a settlement established along the stagecoach route on the Natchez Trace, had a race track, two banks, a wagon factory and at least one hotel, its residents gradually moved to the new town.

They maintained their culture partially despite their native language gradually disappearing a few generations after settlement.

Alfred the Great gradually shifted the settlement into the old Roman town of Londinium from around 886 AD onwards, leaving no mark of the old town, and the site returned to fields.

He felt gradually more confident and in 1764 when a dispute broke out in the settlement of Patna he captured its British garrison and threatened to execute them if the East India Company responded militarily.

In 1670 this settlement gradually growing around the Salas tavern became known as Jēkabpils ( Jakobstadt in German ) in honor of the Duke of Courland, Jacob Kettler, who granted it its city charter.

However trade and social interaction with the mainland groups gradually diminished due to the outward march of pastoral settlement on the mainland.

According to the Cold War scholar John Lewis Gaddis in his book " The Cold War: A New History " ( 2005 ), " Leonid Brezhnev had looked forward, Anatoly Dobrynin recalls, to the ' publicity he would gain ... when the Soviet public learned of the final settlement of the postwar boundaries for which they had sacrificed so much '... ' the Helsinki Accords gradually became a manifesto of the dissident and liberal movement '... What this meant was that the people who lived under these systems — at least the more courageous — could claim official permission to say what they thought.

As a result, what came to be known as the Nag Hammadi library ( owing to the proximity of the find to Nag Hammadi, the nearest major settlement ) appeared only gradually, and its significance went unacknowledged until some time after its initial uncovering.

: I shall relate how the new settlement was, during many troubled years, successfully defended against foreign and domestic enemies ; how, under that settlement, the authority of law and the security of property were found to be compatible with a liberty of discussion and of individual action never before known ; how, from the auspicious union of order and freedom, sprang a prosperity of which the annals of human affairs had furnished no example ; how our country, from a state of ignominious vassalage, rapidly rose to the place of umpire among European powers ; how her opulence and her martial glory grew together ; how, by wise and resolute good faith, was gradually established a public credit fruitful of marvels which to the statesmen of any former age would have seemed incredible ; how a gigantic commerce gave birth to a maritime power, compared with which every other maritime power, ancient or modern, sinks into insignificance ; how Scotland, after ages of enmity, was at length united to England, not merely by legal bonds, but by indissoluble ties of interest and affection ; how, in America, the British colonies rapidly became far mightier and wealthier than the realms which Cortes and Pizarro had added to the dominions of Charles the Fifth ; how in Asia, British adventurers founded an empire not less splendid and more durable than that of Alexander.

This information is confirmed by sagas and archaeological evidence, which suggests that Ladoga gradually evolved into a primarily Varangian settlement.

Alfred the Great gradually moved the settlement into the old Roman town of Londinium from around 886 AD onwards, leaving no mark of the old town, and the area returned to fields.

The Oder-Neisse line has been gradually accepted to be the eastern German boundary by all post-war German states ( East and West Germany as well as reunited Germany ), dropping all plans of ( re -) expansion into or ( re -) settlement of territories beyond this line.

This gradually became a permanent settlement and was subsequently separated off as a separate manor.

From that point, the settlement gradually expands into town, but World War I interrupt its development.

* 1870s The bush is gradually felled and the Manawatu opened up for European farms and settlement.

The populace has intimate connection with the settlement of the interior of the Brazilian center-west, gradually attracted mainly by migrants from the interior of Goiás, and other regions in other states of Brazil.

Between 874 and 890 Ptuj gradually came under the influence of the Archbishopric of Salzburg ; city rights passed in 1376 began an economic upswing for the settlement.

The British Pacific Island Company acquired the rights to Clipperton's guano deposits in 1906, and built a mining settlement on the island in conjunction with the Mexican government.

As additional lands were acquired by the United States from Spain, France and other countries, the United States Congress directed that they be explored, surveyed, and made available for settlement.

During the 3rd century BC, in the Hellenistic period, the settlement of Patmos acquired the form of an acropolis with an improved defence through a fortification wall and towers.

As part of the French settlement of the Gulf Coast, the bayou was originally called " Riviere D ' Erbane " and acquired the present name from the French-maintained battery of artillery on the west bank (" bayou of the battery ").

Deciding that this was an excellent place to set up home, Murphy acquired a Spanish Land Grant, allowing him and his family to establish a settlement along the St. Francois River.

Its first settlement dates back to the emigration of the Magees and Thornhills from South Carolina and is located on a tract of land originally acquired by J. Thornhill September 20, 1816.

The first European settlement in what is now Mount Holly came in 1677, when Walter Reeves acquired land from Native Americans living in the area.

On August 28 the US government opened up the Uintah Basin to settlement of land they had acquired from the Ute Indians under the allotment act of 1891.

From the 14th century, in old texts ( until the 16th / 17th c .) and in Latin, the terms Prut ( h ) enia and Prut ( h ) enic refer not only to the original settlement area of the extinct Old Prussians ( Prusowie, see: Prussia ) along the Baltic Coast east of the Vistula River, but also to the adjacent lands of the former Samboride dukes of Pomerelia, which the Teutonic Knights had acquired from Poland in the 1343 Treaty of Kalisz and added to their Order's State.

His successors acquired almost the whole Vogtland by feuds or marriage settlement, although in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries they lost the greater part of their possessions, most of which fell to the Electorate of Saxony.

One of the most interesting provisions of the settlement privileges granted to Jews was that a Jew could not be made Gewährsmann, that is, he could not be compelled to tell from whom he acquired any object which had been sold or pledged to him and which was found in his possession.

The other group members are ConocoPhillips Transportation ( shares formerly owned by ARCO and acquired by Phillips during its acquisition of ARCO Alaska as part of the settlement between BP and the FTC ) ( 28. 29 %), Exxon Mobil ( 20. 34 %), Koch Alaska Pipeline Company ( 3. 08 %), and Unocal ( 1. 36 %).

By the time of the American Revolution the prosperous settlers had all acquired other land and the settlement was defunct.

The settlement of 1806 was reversed, and while Schleswig remained as before, the duchies of Holstein and Lauenburg, the latter acquired in personal union by a territorial swap following the Congress of Vienna, were included in the new German Confederation.

The settlement of Gera acquired the rights of a city later in the 13th century.

* In Barker v Cox ( 1876 ) 4 Ch D 464 the purchaser of property which was included in a matrimonial settlement paid the price in advance to one of the trustees, and the purchaser was held to have an equitable lien in investments which the trustees subsequently acquired with the purchase price.

Often railroads sold some of their government acquired land to homesteaders immediately to encourage settlement and the growth of markets the railroads would then be able to serve.

There, the industrialist Johann Gottlob Nathusius had acquired various estates and was using them to found a sprawling industrial settlement.

Under the terms of the settlement MicroProse became the sole owner of the rights of the name Civilization and Activision acquired a license to publish a Civilization computer game which was later called Civilization: Call to Power.

The Verve imprint itself manages much of the jazz catalog that once belonged to PolyGram ( not including recordings by Herb Alpert for his A & M Records label which Alpert acquired in a legal settlement with Universal Music and are licensed to Shout!

Negotiations for a privately run settlement were also started with a consortium of four gentlemen headed by Potter McQueen, a member of Parliament who had already acquired a large tract of land in New South Wales.

More immediately it dates from 1624, when the little community acquired a permanent settlement in the Collège des Bons Enfants in Paris.

European settlement in their territory did not begin until 1635, and in 1636 Roger Williams acquired land use rights from the Narragansett sachems.

In 2000, Alpert acquired the rights to his music from Universal Music ( current owners of A & M Records ) in a legal settlement and began remastering his albums for compact disc reissue.