In the second half of the 19th century many European immigrants formed colonial settlements.

Not all slaves who ran away formed settlements in Brazil.

It starts to form a self-sufficient rural settlement around the end of the 18th century.

That could include an entire collective-bargaining package, but who knows what form a settlement would take?

Only about 200 remained, forming a small settlement until the remnants were removed in 1813.

They were seeking to buy vast areas of land with a view to forming a permanent European settlement.

The word was later used of a group of houses forming a settlement.

Within weeks his fleet departed, having made no attempt to form a settlement, due to lack of supplies.

In ancient times, this geographic situation must have been highly favorable for forming settlements.

When huts were built on top of one another to form settlements that rose high in the sky like the distant mountains.