Questions tagged [settlement]
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Why are Ukranian town and city names so (relatively) repetitive?
I've been browsing the map of Eastern and Southern Ukraine over the recent couple of years (looking at where the war is being conducted), and I noticed a very high rate of name repetition: There are ...
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Why did nucleated communities never form in medieval Iceland?
The Icelandic language is surprisingly homogeneous compared to other regions settled by Norsemen. It is theorized that villages and isolated communities never form in Iceland, where there are only ...
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How did really small municipalities function in The Netherlands in the 19th and 20th century?
I'm always amazed by the small villages in The Netherlands that used to be separate municipalities well into the 20th century.
Take for instance Ellewoutsdijk. It was an independent municipality until ...
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Did Bamako exist as a major settlement of trade and culture during the Mali empire?
Someone insisted to me there's no good evidence Bamako was a major city during or before the Mali empire. The best source I could track down on its existence and prominence from that time was this, ...
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How did the layout of a Medieval European village typically change as it grew into a town?
Some of the research I've done so far
WordlbuidingSE: How did the layout of a village change over time?
This question was too broad, it's now more specific:
It is not about settlements that were ...
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Did migrating people ever maintain contact across the Bering Strait?
The Inuit ranged from Alaska to Greenland. The Yupik were in Alaska and Russia. Would peoples have kept in contact across islands in the Arctic but not across the Bering Strait? This question could be ...
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Are there historical instances of settlers who were largely uncontacted and undisturbed after settling?
I am looking for historical instances of a rather specific and strange scenario:
Settlers who settled a wild/unclaimed territory (ideally 100-300 in number) who after settling in the new place, were ...
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Why are most of the world's oldest buildings in Europe and not in the Fertile Crescent?
Looking at the list of the world's ten oldest surviving human constructed buildings, many are in Europe while the oldest building in what (with a generous interpretation of the concept) could be ...
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Did families heading west ever settle along the Oregon Trail (instead of at the final destination)?
The history of the Oregon Trail is well known, in that thousands of people used the trail (and other similar routes) to emigrate to western areas of the United States. What isn't clear to me, however, ...
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Did Indigenous Australians burn land to get Europeans to move on, and did Europeans follow suit?
I was told by a guide that when European settlers originally arrived in Australia, Indigenous populations burnt their land to get the Europeans to move on.
I am aware that the Indigenous did burn ...
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Who was the American settler Tolman of Kamchatka?
In To the Pacific and Arctic with Beechey: The Journal of Lieutenant George Peard of HMS Blossom, 1825–1828, Peard mentions visiting "Mr. Tolman an American Settler" in Avatcha, Kamchatka, "7 or 8 ...
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Information on first stages of road formation between villages and towns
I am researching how road networks are formed over time. I've read several papers on the topic but they are all from a macro point of view. They list formative factors such as trade and environment ...
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What are the oldest Celtic and pre-Celtic settlements/oppida in France/Belgium?
I am looking for a list of old Celtic and pre-Celtic settlements/oppida in France/Belgium and the period during which they were found. I found some information on Wikipedia on cities in France that ...
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How were settlers' houses in Kamchatka built?
As Imperial Russia settled Kamchatka, how did the new arrivals build their houses? Was construction identical to that of Siberia or were local adaptations made?
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Historical Instances like the settlement of Pitcairn Island
Are there any more instances in recorded history where a group of people have formed a isolated island society like the mutineers of the HMS Bounty and their Tahitian captives did on Pitcairn Island?
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When and where arose the first civilization?
I'm reading a bit about early human history, and was asking myself when and where the civilization showed up.
First of all, Ancient Egypt came to mind, and I figured out that this civilization ...
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How was real estate from Germans expelled after WWII redistributed?
After World War II, tens of millions of ethnic Germans from Central and Eastern Europe were forcibly expelled into Allied-occupied Germany and Austria. What happened to all the homes they left behind?...
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Did Canada or Mexico have an equivalent of Manifest Destiny at some stage in their development?
The term Manifest Destiny is defined as an outlook of the United States.
However, the other two major nations on the North American continent also grew from port settlements and trading posts; so I ...
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Is there any evidence of post-landbridge travel across the Bering Strait?
During the era of the landbridge across the Bering Strait, evidence suggests that people traveled from Asia to North America by foot, becoming the first humans in the Americas and the ancestors of the ...
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Explaining differences in settler-first peoples mating [duplicate]
There was fairly little mixing between European settlers and the first peoples in what is today USA and Canada. There was extensive mixing in what is today Mexico (modern day: 65% Mestizo, 17.5% ...
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Has there been other settlements in occupied territories in recent history?
The issue of Israeli settlements in the West Bank (and other territories) is quite controversial, including its legality and its impact on the peace process. I'm wondering if there was any similar ...
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How large were Bronze Age settlements?
How large was the typical settlement in Europe during the Bronze Age? Did most people live in isolated farmsteads or something more like small villages?
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Recommended Reading 19th Century US Settler Daily Life?
At the time of this writing, I am riding in the comfort of an air conditioned minivan, traveling through the deserts of Arizona and California along I-10. I began to think about 19th century settlers ...
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Why did Arthur Philip decide to move to Port Jackson two days after arriving in Botany Bay?
This wikipedia article on Botany Bay suggests the following reason:
Governor Arthur Phillip sailed the Armed Tender Supply into the bay on
18 January 1788. Two days later the remaining ships of ...
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