settlement

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, there were a few attempts by European Christians to settle in the Holy Land or Palestine, whether by the initiative of religious sects such as the German Templer Society or through settlement organizations such as The German Association of...

In OTL the first people to make their homes in Iceland were (according to the sagas) the Irish Papar monks followed by the Norse. My question is: What is the earliest feasible date that Iceland could have been settled by humans and who could have done it? Is it possible for the Neolithic...

So when we talk about colonization of Africa we always talk about people of European descent settling into Africa, what about Indians? Could've we perhaps create a few majority Indian colonies (and somewhere in the 21st century, countries) I think about colonial governments importing Indians...

I am currently creating an idea for my alternate history timeline, basically it will be a very eurocentric world. In this world Russia is very successful, and be among the wealthiest, biggest and most influential nations. Russia would make a lot of settler colonialism, where russians will settle...

I was always curious to see why the Pacific Islands never saw massive European settlement unlike OTL. What must happen for more Europeans to settle the islands? Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia that is. What prevented them in the past from settling in large numbers? And could it be possible...

Could it be possible that in the 20th Century that waves of European immigrants could settle in various African colonies like Namibia, South Africa, Algeria, Rhodesia, and Kenya? What would have to require for this to happen? Could large white majorities be formed in the colonies? And what would...

IOTL, in the 19th century, droves of Han Chinese started pouring into Manchuria, violating the Qind Dynasty's edicts in regards to settlement and thus forcing them to be revised. The region then saw a boom in population and industry, and is now a quite developed and majority-Han part of China...

I'm thinking of something along the lines of Mahakhitan where some Sinicized nomads conquer an area (and possible displace a bunch of natives) and settle down to form their own little Chinese empire. Could areas like Persia, the Caucasus, or Western Russia be good for this purpose or are they...

We had significant white settlement in the semi-arid zones of South Africa, why not in the semi-arid Sahel? The Sahel is also primarily out of range for the Tsetse fly, especially in Niger and Chad. This area seems like a good location for European settlement, so why did the Sahel get so little...

Seen this map before? Ok, Maybe not this one specifically, but it still should tell you about what went down OTL Drang Nach Osten & Ostsiedlung, I.E German settlement east. I'm not gonna bore you with the explanation of why this happened (mostly because I know too little to add much). But as...

On looking at the family tree of the Palatinate for alternatives to the Hannovers (specifically I was trying to find a Catholic son to convert early and provide an interesting discussion for Parliament on whether he would count etc) I noticed Sophie's elder sister Henriette Marie married the...