dispersed settlement

collocation in English

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disperse
verb[I or T]
uk
/dɪˈspɜːs/us
/dɪˈspɝːs/
to spread across or move away over a large area, or to make something ...
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settlement
noun
uk
/ˈset.əl.mənt/us
/ˈset̬.əl.mənt/
an official agreement that finishes ...
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I suspect that if the study is taken further, some evidence for regional variations may emerge, for example between towns and areas ofdispersedsettlement.
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Dispersedsettlementmight be seen as part of the regimentation of the landscape through state intervention in local communities.
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Dispersedsettlementappears to be the dominant pattern, with few concentrated households.
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This can be explained in part by institutional factors, since the predominance ofdispersedsettlement implied that land was frequently traded in large complexes of parcels.
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However, the scarcity of land capable of cultivation, together with the dispersion of the pastures, was such that the population centres themselves followed a verydispersedsettlementpattern.
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The farmsteads which make up thedispersedsettlementare often surrounded by small irregularly shaped fields.
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The tribal organization was based on the clan system of loyalties, and thedispersedsettlementpattern of separate, scattered, mostly fortified homesteads.
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It has a peculiar form lying somewhere between a classicdispersedsettlementand a nucleated village.
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A model ofdispersedsettlementof politically affiliated villages rather than one large nucleated town better fits the archaeological and ethnohistoric information at hand.
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Like most other villages around, it is adispersedsettlementwith greenhouse gardens and banana plantation within the village.
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They used their inaccessibility anddispersedsettlementpattern to protect their traditions.
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Adispersedsettlementcontrasts with a nucleated village.
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Further, the dwellings of a village are fairly close to one another, not scattered broadly over the landscape, as adispersedsettlement.
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Before the building of new housing in the 20th century, it was adispersedsettlement.
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Itsdispersedsettlementpattern may have resulted in a lack of a sense of common purpose that may have united more orderly and arranged communities.
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It is adispersedsettlementand there is no church in the parish.
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The people of the tribe lived in a widelydispersedsettlementpattern, mainly in small hamlets and on family farms.
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Scargill is adispersedsettlementconsisting of a number of farms scattered over a wide area.
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They were of considerable influence and frequently so vigorous that we can speak of ' local communities ' despite the pronounced mode of dispersed settlements.
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These dispersed settlements were sited within individual complexes of enclosed fields (figure 7).
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