But Thorpe saw also the hardships of pioneer existence, the cultural poverty of the frontier settlements, and the slack morality which abounded in the new regions.

The municipalities merged in the course of the latest municipal reform of the 1970s are also called Stadtbezirke ( quarters or districts ), and are Ortschaften (“ settlements ”) in terms of Baden-Württemberg ’ s Gemeindeordnung ( municipal code ), which means, each of them has its own council elected by its respective residents ( Ortschaftsrat ) and is presided by a spokesperson ( Ortsvorsteher ).

It also allows most private litigants to settle their disputes in an amicable manner through discovery and pre-trial settlements in which non-contested facts are agreed upon and not dealt with during the trial process.

A map of Cyprus in the later Bronze Age ( such as is given by J. L. Myres and M. O. Richter in Catalogue of the Cyprus Museum ) shows more than 25 settlements in and about the Mesaorea district alone, of which one, that at Enkomi, near the site of Salamis, has yielded the richest Aegean treasure in precious metal found outside Mycenae.

Other examples which have brought together ideas of cognition and landscape include studies of the cosmic order embedded in the roads of settlements.

There have been settlements there since the medieval period, likely in the Grange Lane and Black Abbey area, and the King's Highway which passes above the town was at one time used by the kings and queens of England when they used the area for hunting when the Forest of Accrington was one of the four forests of the hundred of Blackburnshire.

Representation in the House of Commons was decided by the House itself, which resulted in boroughs ' being established in some small settlements for the purposes of parliamentary representation, despite their possessing no actual corporation.

It is the declared intention of the Interior Ministry to use the borough mechanism in order to facilitate municipal mergers in Israel, after a 2003 wide-reaching merger plan, which, in general, ignored the sensitivities of the communal settlements, and largely failed.

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 ".

Columbus's strained relationship with the Spanish crown and its appointed colonial administrators in America led to his arrest and dismissal as governor of the settlements on the island of Hispaniola in 1500, and later to protracted litigation over the benefits which Columbus and his heirs claimed were owed to them by the crown.

Isma ' il also sought to modernize the city, which was merging with neighboring settlements, by establishing a public works ministry, bringing gas and lighting to the city, and opening a theater and opera house.

These " coupon settlements " ( which usually allow the plaintiffs to receive a small benefit such as a small check or a coupon for future services or products with the defendant company ) are a way for a defendant to forestall major liability by precluding a large number of people from litigating their claims separately, to recover reasonable compensation for the damages.

The dry bed of the Hakra River runs through the area, along which many settlements of the Indus Valley Civilization have been found.

In 1715 the French established their first permanent settlements in Dominica following a revolt of " poor white " smallholders in the north of Martinique, known as La Gaoulé, which caused an exodus of them to southern Dominica.

The Ravenna Cosmography includes the last two names ( in slightly different forms, as " Tamaris " and " Uxelis "), and adds several more names which may be settlements in the territory.

Along with the concept of ships, Seafarers also introduces the notion of the pirate, which acts as a waterborne robber which steals from nearby ships ( similar to how the robber steals from nearby settlements ).

The game board consists of the main Settlers island as well as a few smaller islands, which award a special victory point to each player for their first settlements on them.

Players begin with settlements on the outside of the map, but may build ships to reach the Forgotten Tribe's islands, which are in the center.

Players earn victory points for connecting their settlements with settlements ( not necessarily theirs ) from the opposite island using ships, or to another player's shipping lines which connect two settlements together.

Hexes on the main island for which there are no number tokens do not produce resources, but number tokens are moved in such a way so as to avoid rendering a city unproductive ; furthermore, whenever possible number tokens must be reassigned from hexes bordering a player's own settlements and cities, so as to prevent harming another player's economy without harming a player's own economy at the same time.

After selling off some of his Connecticut properties, he began buying wild lands further north in the territory, which he sold at a profit as the southern settlements grew and people began to move further north.

Strabo, in his Geographia, comments on the former beauty of Calydon, which by his time lay desolate: '... Calydon and Pleuron, which are now indeed reduced, though in early times these settlements were an ornament to Greece.

* In Australia, the term refers to relatively small Aboriginal settlements ( referred to also as ' Outstations ') where people with close kinship ties share lands significant to them for cultural reasons.

The first refers primarily to the main cluster of settlements in the valley of the Eurotas River: Sparta.

Fighting Pioneer Youth ) refers to an Israel Defense Forces program that combines military service and establishment of new agricultural settlements, often in outlying areas.

The New Yishuv refers to those, who began building homes outside the Old City walls of Jerusalem in the 1860s, to the establishers of Petah Tikva and the First Aliyah of 1882, followed by the founding of neighbourhoods and settlements until the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948.

There are so many settlements as villages, towns in Turkey which refers Kipchaks.

The Germanic name hall of several settlements refers to the region's numerous salt mine, which had been in use at least since the days of the Celtic Hallstatt culture, centered at the mining town of Hallstatt.

Howard City refers to multiple settlements in the United States:

In the history of ancient Greece, this term refers to the political process by which a group of villages and settlements are synchronized to form a polis.

The name refers to a series of cascades and waterfalls on the river, as well as to the native settlements and trading villages that existed there in various configurations for 15, 000 years.

The two Kamboja settlements on either side of the Hindu Kush are also substantiated from Ptolemy's Geography, which refers to the Tambyzoi located north of the Hindu Kush on the river Oxus in Bactria, and the Ambautai people on the southern side of Hindukush in the Paropamisadae.

Dryburgh Bridge refers to two different footbridges erected near Dryburgh Abbey, Borders, Scotland, between the villages of Dryburgh and St. Boswells ( part of a ribbon of settlements including Newtown St. Boswells ), across the River Tweed.

The name refers to a chain of forts built by the French in the Richelieu Valley during the 17th and 18th centuries to defend their colonial settlements from the Iroquois.

While referring to the invasion of Alexander of Macedon, Dasam Granth a seventeenth century text of Punjab refers to Kambuj and Kamboj obviously two distinct settlements

Professor Diogo Correia, in his book Toponímia do Concelho de Cascais, refers to the topology in these terms: " In the opinion of authorative specialists, the walls that gave the name to the homonymic settlements, were from ruined castles, dismantled redoubts, and many times, hilltop rocks.

) as well as San Costantino Albanese and San Paolo Lucano in southern Basilicata ; ( vi ) settlements in southern Calabria, e. g. San Nicola dell ' Alto and Vena di Maida ; ( vii ) Sicilian zone: Piana degli Albanesi and two nearby villages near Palermo ; ( viii ) formerly also Villabadessa in Abruzzi ; an outlying dialect of Albanian

At last her lawyer, Arthur D. Cloud, gave up the case because she turned down three successive settlements he arranged.

They threatened constantly to give the British a hold on this region, from whence they could move easily down the rivers to the French settlements near the Gulf.

It is quite probable, however, that stupidity, inexperience and childish adherence to slogans like `` unconditional surrender '' had more to do with the unsatisfactory settlements at the end of the war than treason or sympathy with Communism.

The Atlantic has been extensively explored since the earliest settlements along its shores.

Unlike the Bosphorus, the Dardanelles has fewer settlements along its shores.

Hannibal may have crossed the Alps with a herd of elephants, and the Romans had settlements in the region.

Early human settlements are believed to have been established on Achill around 3000 BC.

Modern Pueblo oral traditions hold that the Pueblo originated to the north of their current settlements, from sipapu, where they emerged from the underworld.

The population of the region continued to be mobile, abandoning settlements and fields under adverse conditions.

This forced the abandonment of settlements in the more arid or over-farmed locations.

Many modern Pueblo tribes trace their lineage from settlements.

* 2005 – Israel's unilateral disengagement plan to evict all Israelis from the Gaza Strip and from four settlements in the northern West Bank begins.

* 1862 – American Indian Wars: The Dakota War of 1862 begins in Minnesota as Lakota warriors attack white settlements along the Minnesota River.

No larger settlements, however, have been found to have existed in this remote rural area, located at least 15 km from the nearest road even in Roman times, up to the early medieval period when the place is mentioned as a king's mansion for the first time, not long before Charlemagne became ruler of the Germanic Franks.

Due to intermarriage with the Japanese and ongoing absorption into the predominant culture, there are no truly Ainu settlements existing in Japan today.

Acropolis is also the term used by archaeologists and historians to the urban Castro culture settlements located in Northwestern Iberian hilltops.

While both the Anglo-Saxons and the Danes attacked settlements to seize wealth and other resources, they employed very different strategies.

The Northern and Central European settlements in this region have built up a large-scale production of chocolate and its by-products, thus rendering them quintessential products to the region.

Some of the earliest settlements were made on the slopes of Mount Benacantil.

As of 2002, the city of Seattle had paid over $ 200, 000 in settlements of lawsuits filed against the Seattle Police Department for assault and wrongful arrest, with a class action lawsuit still pending.

The only exception is Unterentfelden whose settlements are divided from Aarau by the extensive forests of Gönhard and Zelgli.

* 1606 – The Charter of the Virginia Company of London is established by royal charter by James I of England with the purpose of establishing colonial settlements in North America.