Image: Tulor Settlement Chile. jpg | Remains of the Tulor settlement ( 800 BC ) near San Pedro de Atacama

Long settled by the Mi ' kmaq Nation, the valley experienced French settlement at the Habitation at Port-Royal, near modern day Annapolis Royal in the western part of the valley, beginning in 1605.

Two territorial areas are being developed as settlement exclusively for Boer / Afrikaners, Orania in the Northern Cape and Kleinfontein near Pretoria.

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

Most were situated near a settlement, and served as that community's " graveyard ".

In the late 1940s and early 1950s, hundreds of religious documents dated between 150 BCE and 70 CE were found in caves near the ancient settlement of Qumran, about a mile inland from the northwestern shore of the Dead Sea ( presently in the West Bank ).

The merchant can only be deployed through the use of a Merchant progress card ( of which there are six ), on a land hex near a city or a settlement.

During the Middle Ages, the Old Prussian settlement of Truso was located at Lake Drużno near the current site of Elbląg in historical Pogesania ; the settlement burned down in the 10th century.

The exact location of Truso was not known for a long time, as the seashore has significantly changed, but most historians trace the settlement inside or near to modern Elbląg on Lake Drużno.

During the period of Israeli control, Israel created a settlement bloc, Gush Katif, in the southwest corner of the Strip near Rafah and the Egyptian border.

Christopher Columbus established a small settlement called La Navidad, near the modern town of Cap Haitien, built from the timbers of his wrecked ship Santa María, during his first voyage in December 1492.

The Spanish returned to western Hispaniola in 1502, establishing a settlement at Yaguana, near modern day Léogane.

A second settlement was established on the north coast in 1504 called Puerto Real near modern Fort Liberte-which in 1578 was relocated to a nearby site and renamed Bayaha.

In the rural areas of the alluvial plain and in the lower Diyala region, settlement almost invariably clusters near the rivers, streams, and irrigation canals.

The first Spanish settlement was founded in 1509 near St Anne's Bay and named Seville.

The first permanent settlement was built near the Ein as-Sultan spring between 10000 and 9000 BCE.

In the late 9th century, a Slavic Pomeranian fortified settlement was built at the site of modern part of Kołobrzeg county called Budzistowo near modern Kołobrzeg, replacing nearby Bardy-Świelubie, a multi-ethnic emporium, as the center of the region.

The descriptions given by the contemporary chroniclers make it possible that a second, purely militarily used castle existed near the settlement, yet neither is this certain nor have archaeological efforts been able to locate traces thereof.

* Çatalhöyük – A Neolithic and Chalcolithic settlement, located near the modern city of Konya, Turkey.

The Romans built a military camp, which they called Lousanna, at the site of a Celtic settlement, near the lake where currently Vidy and Ouchy are situated ; on the hill above was a fort called ' Lausodunon ' or ' Lousodunon ' ( The ' y ' suffix is common to many place names of Roman origin in the region ( e. g. ) Prilly, Pully, Lutry, etc .).

Approximately 3, 000 members of the Loyalist migration were Black Loyalists who founded the largest free Black settlement in North American at Birchtown, near Shelburne.

The lowest point is at sea level, and the highest is an unnamed point near Mutalau settlement, at 68 m.

The town of Nashville was founded by James Robertson, John Donelson, and a party of Overmountain Men in 1779, near the original Cumberland settlement of Fort Nashborough.

The nearest permanently inhabited settlement is 366. 8 km, or 198. 1 nmi, west of the headland of Aird an Runair, near the crofting township of Hogha Gearraidh on the island of North Uist at.

There, a new settlement was formed, being granted a council two years later ( 1706 ), with the name of San Roque, and being considered by the Spanish Crown as the heir to the lost town of Gibraltar ( historical objects and records predating 1704 were subsequently taken to San Roque where they remain to this day.

Although the trial was scheduled to start Monday, April 30, 2007 in U. S. District Court in San Francisco, the parties announced on April 25, 2007 that a settlement had been reached.

The same year he founded the San Juan de los Caballeros colony, the first permanent European settlement in the future state of New Mexico,

With the hope of negotiating a peace settlement, on 7 November 1998, President Andrés Pastrana granted FARC-EP a safe haven meant to serve as a confidence building measure, centered around the San Vicente del Caguán settlement.

San Francisco Bay continues to support some of the densest industrial production and urban settlement in the United States.

There is a 1. 5 km aerial tramway connecting the city of San Marino on top of Monte Titano with Borgo Maggiore, a major town in the republic, with the second largest population of any Sammarinese settlement.

In 1592 Antonio de Berrio established the first lasting settlement, the town of San José de Oruña ( the modern St. Joseph ).

* April 9 – San Luis, the oldest permanent settlement in the state of Colorado, is founded by settlers from Taos, New Mexico.

* April 27 – Cebu City ( originally named San Miguel ) is established by López de Legazpi, becoming the first Spanish settlement in the Philippines.

* May 14 – Charles III of Spain sends Spanish missionaries, who found California missions in San Diego, Santa Barbara, San Francisco and Monterey and begin the settlement of California.

* January – A Spanish force under the command of Captain Juan Pardo establishes Fort San Juan in the Native American settlement of Joara.

Other cities in North America where Chinatowns were founded in the mid-nineteenth century include almost every major settlement along the West Coast from San Diego to Victoria.

Historic Chinatowns-such as that in San Francisco, California-have had a significant influence on the perception of Chinatowns in western countries, although it and other North American Chinatowns fall outside the tradition of Chinese settlement in having significant numbers of Chinese women.

In 1580 he arrived in the newly granted lands but it was not until 1582 that he established a settlement called San Luis Rey de Francia within present-day Monterrey.

The origin of Ferrara is uncertain, it was probably settled by the inhabitants of the lagoons at the mouth of Po river ; there are two early centers of settlement, one round the cathedral, the other, the castrum bizantino, being the San Pietro district, on the opposite shore, where the Primaro empties into the Volano channel.

The Romans gave their settlement the name Tridentum ( Tri Dentum, meaning ' Three Teeth ') because of the three hills that surround the city: the Doss Trent, Sant ' Agata and San Rocco.

The Spanish founded San Sebastian de Uraba in 1509 — abandoned within the year, and in 1510 the first permanent Spanish mainland settlement in America, Santa María la Antigua del Darién.

The island was further explored by Spain in 1789 with Esteban José Martínez, who established the settlement of Yuquot and the artillery battery of Fort San Miguel at Friendly Cove, which Spain called Puerto de San Lorenzo de Nuca.

The Spanish established a settlement at Santissima Trinidad, building Fort San Salvador on the northwest coast of Taiwan near Keelung in 1626 which they occupied until 1642 when they were driven out by a joint Dutch – Aborigine invasion force.

While returning to Monterey, he located the original sites for Mission Santa Clara de Asis and the town of San José de Guadalupe ( modern day San Jose, California ), but again did not establish either settlement.