Примеры settlement

• People described the region as basically one of thick forests, interspersed with swidden settlements, lorded over by despotically powerful janmis.

• The altar represented the same sacred gathering around a common centre as did the hearth in the first human settlements.

• I would suggest extreme variation, especially in the hinterland settlements.

• Small, kinship-based settlements were headed by a leader, called mbuyi or mtwa, who held secular as well as ritual authority.

• What is impor tant is how these settlements were perceived by locals and the upheaval they brought to their lives.

• They were designed as autonomous settlements capable of guaranteeing work, housing and services efficiently and cheaply, within a territory totally lacking any kind of urbanization.

• While fields were enclosed, settlements were dispersed, farm organisation made geometric, the inside of tenant farmhouses were not rationalised or subdivided into individual spaces.

• The opportunities to monopolize trade flows are influenced by the number of alternative routes that have to be controlled and the distribution of settlements.