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== Settlements == * [[Reductions]], settlements in Spanish America intended to control and Christianize Indians ...

...Monferrato map (018 003).jpg|thumb|In this seventeenth-century plan of the fortified city of [[Casale Monferrato]] the citadel is the large [[Bastion fort|star- ...ified area of a town or [[city]]. It may be a [[castle]], [[fortress]], or fortified center. The term is a [[diminutive]] of ''city'', meaning "little city", be ...

...0 (the only town in the Gooi with these rights) and later developed into a fortified garrison town with a textile industry. Naarden is an example of a [[star fort]], complete with [[fortification|fortified]] walls and a [[moat]]. The moat and walls have been restored on numerous o ...

==Settlements== ...e''. This is reflected in the Welsh name for Exeter: ''Caerwysg'' meaning "fortified settlement on the river Uisc". ...

...2,000 years ago—the [[Paleo-Indians]]. Although "no traces of established settlements have ever been found," flints showing evidence of these nomadic people have Circa approximately 1000 B.C., settlements appeared in [[Hamilton County, Ohio]]. ...

...er early group of slavs(Veneti/Venedi/Venedae?). Rare, few and short-lived settlements of the Slavs were located "in unusual topographic conditions: in low places ...y AD. (based on archaeological data in the town on Mayat river). The first settlements near the [[Polans (eastern)|Polans]] and [[Severians]] arose in the region ...

...lans (western)|Polans]] begins the construction of the following fortified settlements ([[Giecz]], [[Bnin, Kórnik|Bnin]], [[Ląd, Greater Poland Voivodeship|Ląd]], ...

...and living by robbery and piracy.<ref>[[Thucydides|Thuc.]] 1.5.</ref> The settlements of [[Alyzeia]], [[Coronta]], [[Limnaea (Acarnania)|Limnaea]], [[Medion (pol ...amed [[Olpae]], near the [[Amphilochian Argos]], which the Acarnanians had fortified as a place of judicial meeting for the settlement of disputes.<ref>[[Thucyd ...

...fter destroying their [[suburb]]s, the Xanthians withdraw into the heavily fortified city. The Roman [[legionary|legionaries]] (2,000 men) force the gate and fi ...eturns to Rome and arranges for ± 40,000 [[legionary|veterans']] [[Settler|settlements]] in [[Campania]], [[Etruria]], [[Picenum]], [[Samnium]], [[Umbria]], and i ...

...erm used by archaeologists and historians for the urban [[Castro culture]] settlements located in Northwestern Iberian hilltops.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Sinner |fi ...aly]], many small rural [[Comune|communes]] still cluster at the base of a fortified habitation known as {{lang|it|[[Rocca (fortification)|rocca]]}} of the comm ...

...[[Early Helladic II]]. He suggested that the invaders of Early Helladic II settlements may have been Greeks speaking a prototype of the later Greek language. Howe ...tion that (proto-Greek) Indo-European invaders destroyed Early Helladic II settlements throughout Greece.<ref>{{harvnb|Dietrich|1973|pp=1–3}}.</ref>{{r|group=Note ...

...treck|Duri|1960|p=484}} As the western gate to central Mesopotamia, it was fortified by the [[Sasanian]] ruler [[Shapur I]] ({{reign|241|272}}) to shield his ca The city was fortified by a double wall, possibly through the use of Roman prisoner labour; it was ...

...panish settlements south of the colony of Georgia, so the Spanish governor fortified the Diego farmhouse which was already being called Fort San Diego. After Og ...

...rusalem]], [[Palestinian right of return|Palestinian refugees]], [[Israeli settlements]], [[security]] and [[History of the State of Palestine|borders]] would be ...er major issues such as [[Jerusalem]], [[Palestinian refugee]]s, [[Israeli settlements]], and security and borders were to be decided at these permanent status ne ...

...sely, these English placename elements derive from [[Latin]] ''castrum'' ("fortified post") and its plural form ''castra'' ("[[military camp]]"), making them th ...n invasion of Wales|Normans]], "caer" was and remains used to describe the settlements around some of them as well. An example is the [[Segontium|Roman fort]] at ...

They had a circumference of about ten kilometres, and were fortified with towers at regular intervals.<ref name="eb">{{cite EB1911|wstitle=Alexa {{Former settlements in Turkey}} ...

...ed Taos "Old Town", was attacked by [[Comanches]] who took 50 women from a fortified house, the home of the Vidalpando family, and killed the men of the settlem [[Category:Spanish mission settlements in North America]] ...

...huyler]] was constructed south of the Mohawk River near one of their major settlements at the time. ...

...defensive strong points ([[burh]]s); in order to maintain these particular settlements, he granted them a degree of autonomy. After the [[Norman Conquest]], when ...English]] word {{lang|ang|burg}}, {{lang|ang|burh}}, meaning a [[fortress|fortified]] settlement; the word appears as modern English ''bury'', ''-brough'', [[S ...

...]. It was later used as a depot for [[convict]]s on their way to the penal settlements of [[New Caledonia]] and [[French Guiana]]. Prisoners included [[Alfred Dre During World War II, the beaches of the Île de Ré were fortified by German forces with [[bunker]]s, in order to block a possible seaward inv ...