In 1513, Ferdinand II of Aragon issued a decree establishing the encomienda land settlement system that was to be incorporated throughout the Spanish Americas.

The village was incorporated as a city in 1877 and renamed Cadillac, after Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, a Frenchman who made the first permanent settlement at Detroit in 1701.

Dublin was incorporated into the English Crown as The Pale, which was a narrow strip of English settlement along the eastern seaboard.

Dispute settlement features are only incorporated in some European countries.

In 1859, the settlement having grown to nearly 3, 000 and encompassing about in area was incorporated as a city.

Initially an agricultural settlement, Moncton was not incorporated until 1855.

* March 3 – The early settlement of Taunton, Massachusetts is incorporated as a town.

The Swedish settlement was incorporated into Dutch New Netherland on September 15, 1655.

The settlement was laid out in April 1737, and was incorporated as a town in 1742.

In New York State, a village is an incorporated settlement ; a hamlet is an unincorporated settlement.

In 1826, the Missouri legislature first met here and in 1839 the settlement was incorporated as a city.

Within the framework of administrative divisions, it is, together with the settlement of Zhatay and eleven rural localities, incorporated as the city of republic significance of Yakutsk — an administrative unit with a status equal to that of the districts.

The settlement of Zhatay is not a part of Yakutsk Urban Okrug and is independently incorporated as Zhatay Urban Okrug.

After the conquest of Majorca, it was loosely incorporated into the province of Tarraconensis by 123 BC ; the Romans founded two new cities: Palma on the south of the island, and Pollentia in the northeast-on the site of a Phoenician settlement.

Its post office was opened in 1821, and the settlement was incorporated as Blountsville on December 13, 1827.

With Dublin, an early Viking settlement, as the setting for Finnegans Wake, it is perhaps not surprising that Joyce incorporated a number of Norwegian linguistic and cultural elements into the work ( notably Riksmål references for the most part ).

Puigcerdà is located near the site of a Cerretani settlement, which was incorporated into Roman territory.

Within the framework of administrative divisions, it is, together with one urban-type settlement and seventy-nine rural localities, incorporated as the City of Sochi — an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts.

In some small counties with no incorporated municipalities, a large settlement may serve as the county seat.

By 1680, the settlement was known as Hampton, and it was incorporated as a town in 1705 and became the seat of Elizabeth City County.

After a lethal 1752 hurricane, the county courthouse was relocated from Town Point to Wantland ’ s Ferry ; this settlement was eventually incorporated in 1842 and named Jacksonville after President Andrew Jackson.

Later, when the Danson estate was sold to developers, the land to the south was opened up to suburban sprawl and the settlement incorporated the local parishes of St Michael's East Wickham and St Johns Welling.

The settlement also incorporated as a village in 1817 and became the county seat of Monroe County.

The county's sole incorporated settlement is the city of Rising Sun, which is located in the far east part of the county on the banks of the Ohio River.

and ( 2 ) such other special funds as may, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, be required each to be a claims fund to be known by the name of the foreign government which has entered into a settlement agreement with the Government of the United States as described in subsection ( A ) of Section 4 of this Title.

a special fund created for that purpose pursuant to subsection ( A ) of this section any amounts hereafter paid, in United States dollars, by a foreign government which has entered into a claims settlement agreement with the Government of the United States as described in subsection ( A ) of Section 4 of this Title.

Thus at the same time that William Henry Harrison was preparing to pacify the aborigines of Indiana Territory and winning fame at the battle of Tippecanoe, Anglo-Saxon settlement made a great leap into the center of the North American continent to the west of the American agricultural frontier.

After the settlement of the Israelites in Canaan, the Ark remained in the Tabernacle at Gilgal for a season before being removed to Shiloh until the time of Eli, between 300 and 400 years ( Jeremiah 7: 12 ), when it was carried into the field of battle, so as to secure, as they had hoped, victory to the Hebrews.

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.

On both sides of the road, the local settlement, Bonna, grew into a sizeable Roman town.

An inscription on a stone built into the wall of a summer house in Lancarffe furnishes proof of a settlement in Bodmin in the early Middle Ages.

There is speculation that Viking explorers discovered and settled in the Vinland region around 1000 AD, which is when the L ' Anse aux Meadows settlement in Newfoundland and Labrador has been dated, and it is possible that further exploration was made into the present-day Maritimes and northeastern United States.

British settlement of the Maritimes, as the colonies of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island came to be known, accelerated throughout the late 18th century and into the 19th century with significant immigration to the region as a result of Scottish migrants displaced by the Highland Clearances and Irish escaping the Great Irish Famine ( 1845-1849 ).

Originally founded as a Viking settlement, it evolved into the Kingdom of Dublin and became the island's principal city following the Norman invasion.

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.

In other scenarios, the board is divided into islands, and if the player builds a settlement on an island other than the ones they begin on, the settlement is worth extra victory points.

Ships may be lost if the attack is unsuccessful, but after three successful attacks, the pirate fortress is converted into a settlement.

The land was cleared and turned into pasture by Dutch and freed African settlers in the 1630s, who named their settlement Noortwyck.

A Solemn League and Covenant was entered into, guaranteeing the Scottish Church settlement and promising further reform in England.

While the settlement today referred to as Hedeby / Haithabu lies on the south side of the Schlei inlet, the settlement that grew up at around the same time on the north side has had a continuous history of habitation to modern times, and has now grown into the town known as Schleswig and given its name to the surrounding province.

The settlement grew into a group of shacks built mostly with wreckage from the Amaranth ( lumber from which was also used by the young Hawaiian colonists to build surfboards ), but later, stone and wood dwellings were built and equipped with refrigeration, radio equipment, and a weather station.

* 1788 – The British First Fleet, led by Arthur Phillip, sails into Port Jackson ( Sydney Harbour ) to establish Sydney, the first permanent European settlement on the continent.

* 1793 – John Graves Simcoe decides to build a fort and settlement at Toronto, having sailed into the bay there.

After a few centuries it was abandoned for a second settlement, established in 6800 BCE, perhaps by an invading people who absorbed the original inhabitants into their dominant culture.

Wedgwood made it into a commemorative medallion titled " Hope encouraging Art and Labour, under the influence of Peace, to pursue the employments necessary to give security and happiness to an infant settlement ".

Voroshilov was born in the settlement of Verkhnye, Bakhmut district ( uyezd ), Yekaterinoslav Governorate ( now part of Lysychansk city in Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine ), in the Russian Empire, into a railway worker's family of Russian ethnicity.