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7 unusual facts about human settlement


Ararat, Victoria

It is the largest settlement in the Rural City of Ararat local government area and is the administrative centre.

Douar Ain Chami

Douar Ain Chami is a settlement in northwestern Morocco somewhat to the north of the city of Meknes.

Kambalda, Western Australia

Kambalda's first modern settlement was located at the base of nearby Red Hill in 1897.

Kapuzinerberg

Earliest human settlements on the eastern slope of Kapuzinerberg date back to neolithic period.

Le Lioran

It consists of the original settlement of Le Lioran in the valley bottom as well as the settlements of Prairie de Sagnes, Font d'Alagon, Font de Cère, and Prat du Bouc, all of which are geared towards the mountain tourism market.

Lutzomyia

Deforestation, with the establishment of settlements at the periphery of primary or secondary forest, increases the risk of Leishmania transmission by creating a selection pressure for the adaptation of sand flies to these new peridomestic environments.

New Lamka

The community started out as neighborhoods known as vengs, such as College Veng, Dorcas Veng, Elim Veng, Go Cin Khup Veng, Hebron Veng, Sim Veng, Zion Veng, Veng Nuam and Khomin thang, and today it is one of the most rapidly expanding parts of the city.


Hans-Georg Stephan

Stephan's areas of specialization include interdisciplinary archaeological research in the first and second millennia A.D., medieval settlement and landscape archaeology, urban topography and architectural history, renaissance material culture (especially ceramics, glass, and oven tiles), economic history (especially pottery, metallurgy and glass production), and archaeometry.

Judaization

Due to the cultural ties of Judaism with the Hebrew language, it can be alternately designated as Hebraization in regards to the renaming of geographic areas and personal names with Hebrew appellations, as has been the case with Jewish immigration and human settlement in Israel and Israeli settlements in the Occupied Territories.


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Balcones Fault

Springs such as San Pedro Springs, Comal Springs, San Marcos Springs, Barton Springs and Salado Springs are found in the fault zone and provide a source of fresh water and a place for human settlement.

Moorhen

Apart from the 1-3 extinctions in more recent times, another 1-4 species have gone extinct as a consequence of early human settlement: Hodgen's Waterhen (Gallinula hodgenorum) of New Zealand—which belongs in subgenus Tribonyx—and a species close to the Samoan Moorhen from Buka, Solomon Islands, which is almost certainly distinct from the Makira Moorhen as the latter cannot fly.

Ottenby

The oldest known human settlement on the southern part of Oland is slightly to the north at Alby dating to the mesolithic era showing the presence of hunter-gatherers.

Pärnu County

In Pärnu county there is the oldest known human settlement in Estonia, from town of Sindi 2 km upstream by Pärnu River, near village Pulli.

Rottweil

Rottweil was founded by the Romans in AD 73 as Arae Flaviae and became a municipium, but there are traces of human settlement going back to 2000 BC.

Strzemieszyce Wielkie

Traces of ancient human settlement date back to the Lusatian culture period (ca. 700 BC).

Traffic sign

Prior to widespread human settlement, this area was part of the Kenai National Moose Range.