As Cape Colony attracted increasing Dutch and European settlement, the Dutch founded the city of Kaapstad ( Cape Town ).

) He said that his settlement was to be a haven for those " distressed of conscience ", and it soon attracted quite a collection of dissenters and otherwise-minded individuals.

The coal mine, established by Friedrich Reden, attracted workers, and a settlement was soon established around it.

The remoteness of the area during early settlement attracted some interesting local characters, some of whom came to the area to avoid unwanted official scrutiny.

Being the only German colony considered suitable for white settlement at the time, Namibia attracted a large influx of German settlers.

The Spanish sent some settlers, creating the first permanent European settlement in the continental United States at St. Augustine, Florida in 1565, but it attracted few permanent settlers.

Its situation having attracted fishermen from the Cinque Ports, a permanent settlement was made, and the town numbered 70 burgesses before the Norman Conquest.

However, due to the flood-prone, low-lying topography, the neighborhood attracted a lower-income population became an area for African-American settlement.

Carmichael opened a store, which attracted more settlers to the area, and by the next year a post office was relocated from the settlement of Drake Eye to the north to Enterprise.

Wood's settlement soon attracted others, and a pioneer village emerged.

Its function as a trading and shipping centre attracted settlement of well-to-do merchants from Holland.

The settlement continued to grow from early farmers attracted by the city's rich soil.

By 1899 the huge coal deposits in the settlement had attracted additional settlers and the Pennsylvania Railroad installed a spur line through the community that year.

Prior to European settlement, these marshes attracted local wildlife.

The first archaeological dig in 1954 uncovered the remains of the early settlement, including a workshop area which attracted international interest.

The Portuguese, attracted by the riches of Asia, made no permanent settlement at the Cape Colony.

Busying himself with the political settlement of his conquests in the French interests and, as he hoped, for his own ultimate benefit as a possible candidate for the Portuguese throne, he attracted the hatred of Republican officers in his Army.

This new settlement attracted affluent workers from The City who could live outside the city centre ( with its attendant noise, pollution and overcrowding ) and yet easily travel to work.

The settlement of the Oregon boundary dispute with Britain in 1846, the conclusion of the Mexican American War in 1848, and the California Gold Rush in 1849 and other gold and silver strikes rapidly attracted increased emigrant traffic west.

Therefore Northern Rhodesia attracted little white settlement, in contrast to its southern neighbour.

Belfort's strategic location, in a natural gap between the Vosges and the Jura, on a route linking the Rhine and the Rhône, has attracted human settlement and made it a target for armies.

New settlement had to be attracted to the virgin lands west of the Missouri River, which had been previously regarded by the public as worthless to the needs of agriculture due to insufficiencies of the soil as well as the arid climate.

Ayalon has attracted widespread following as a co-initiator with Palestinian dignitary Sari Nusseibeh of the non-governmental Peoples ' Voice initiative to petition the governments in Israel and the Palestinian Authority for a permanent settlement.

The monarchs of the early French dynasties lived here, attracted by the proximity of the Chantilly Forest and its venison, and built a castle on the foundations of the Roman settlement.

Anaktuvuk Pass is the last remaining settlement of the Nunamiut ( People of the Land ) Inupiat Eskimo in Alaska.

Anaktuvuk Pass is the only Nunamiut settlement.

Yet when, at war's end, the ex-Tory made the first move to resume correspondence, Jay wrote him from Paris, where he was negotiating the peace settlement:

His trading goods came from Canada to the Forks of Red River and from Selkirk's settlement he brought them south in carts.

As these Swiss were moving from the Selkirk settlement to become the first civilian residents of Minnesota, Dousman of Michilimackinac, Michigan, and Prairie Du Chien was traveling to Red River to open a trade in merchandise.

Others carried pemmican from `` the Forks '' to St. Paul and goods from St. Paul to Red River, as in the summer of 1847 when one trader, Wells, transported twenty barrels of whisky to the British settlement.

Wakefield had read accounts of Australian settlement while in prison in London for attempting to abduct an heiress, and realised that the eastern colonies suffered from a lack of available labour, due to the practice of giving land grants to all arrivals.

The government also purchased 1. 3 million acres from large estate holders for subdivision and closer settlement by small farmers.

* 1590 – John White, the governor of the Roanoke Colony, returns from a supply trip to England and finds his settlement deserted.

Records from the early 19th century survive to this day describing the distinct dialect that had surfaced in the colonies since first settlement in 1788, with Peter Miller Cunningham's 1827 book Two Years in New South Wales, describing the distinctive accent and vocabulary of the native born colonists, different from that of their parents and with a strong London influence.

After the American Civil War, the settlement of the western territories by migrants from the east led to dialect mixing and levelling, so that regional dialects are most strongly differentiated in the eastern parts of the country that were settled earlier.

* the " Lost Colony " of Roanoke Island: In 1587, Sir Walter Raleigh recruited over 100 men, women and children to journey from England to Roanoke Island on North Carolina's coast and establish the first English settlement in America under the direction of John White as governor.

Near the location of the present train station, the ruins of a settlement from the Bronze Age ( about 1000 BC ) have been excavated.

Lord Sydney, often criticised as an ineffectual incompetent, had made one fundamental decision about the settlement that was to influence it from the start.

The ruins of the town may still be seen on Cape Balastra ; they cover seven small hills, and extend from an eastern to a western harbor ; on the southwestern hills are the remains of the medieval settlement of Polystylon.

One persistent fiction, widely publicized, was that his divorce settlement from Micheline Musseli Pozzo di Borgo ( his fourth wife ) cost him an estimated $ 1 million in 1965.

The settlement compensated the Natives for the collaborative use of their lands and opened the way for all Alaskans to profit from oil, one of the state's largest natural resources.

The Latin name for that settlement, " Bonna ", may stem from the original population of this and many other settlements in the area, the Eburoni.

From the fort, the Bonnburg, as well as from a new medieval settlement to the South centred around what later became the minster, grew the medieval city of Bonn.

Joshua forms part of the biblical history of the emergence of Israel which begins with the exodus of the Israelites from slavery in Egypt, continues with their conquest of Canaan under their leader Joshua ( the subject matter of the book of Joshua ), and culminates in Judges with the settlement of the tribes in the land.

The word borough derives from the Old English word burh, meaning a fortified settlement.

During the 7th millennium BC, the northern half of Chad was part of a broad expanse of land, stretching from the Indus River in the east to the Atlantic Ocean in the west, in which ecological conditions favored early human settlement.

Specific early human settlement sites from the very early human habitation in Chile include the Cueva del Milodon and the Pali Aike Crater's lava tube.

In 1511, Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar set out from Hispaniola to form the first Spanish settlement in Cuba, with orders from Spain to conquer the island.