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A depiction of the first medieval settlers arriving in Iceland, 1850. A settler is a person who establishes or joins a permanent presence that is separate to existing communities, as with a settlement.
A settlement may have known historical properties such as the date or era in which it was first settled, or first settled by particular people. The process of settlement involves human migration. In the field of geospatial predictive modeling, settlements are "a city, town, village or other agglomeration of buildings where people live and work ...
Settlement geography, investigating the part of the Earth's surface settled by humans; Settlement movement, a Victorian era reformist social movement; Settlement school, social reform institutions established in rural Appalachia in the early 20th century; Settler colonialism, replacing the original population with a new society of settlers
An illustration of Providence Plantations as it appeared c. 1650. In the history of colonialism, a plantation was a form of colonization in which settlers would establish permanent or semi-permanent colonial settlements in a new region.
The word city and the related civilization come from the Latin root civitas, originally meaning 'citizenship' or 'community member' and eventually coming to correspond with urbs, meaning 'city' in a more physical sense. [17] The Roman civitas was closely linked with the Greek polis —another common root appearing in English words such as ...
The Greek term barbaros was the etymological source for many words meaning "barbarian", ... the settled Gauls, and the raiding Huns as barbarians, ...
The majority of cases are decided by a settlement. Both sides (regardless of relative monetary resources) often have a strong incentive to settle to avoid the costs (such as legal fees, finding expert witnesses, etc.), the time and the stress associated with a trial, particularly where a trial by jury is available.
The word shekhinah is first encountered in the rabbinic literature. [5]: 148–49 [6] The Semitic root from which shekhinah is derived, š-k-n, means "to settle, inhabit, or dwell". [7] [8] In the verb form, it is often used to refer to the dwelling of a person [9] or animal [10] in a place, or to the dwelling of God. [11]