Settler

Under settlers (plural ) refers to a group of people trying a piece of land that appear to have been used and cultivated agricultural or forestry by anyone before nor to make reclaimed by clearing, planting, irrigation and development to make it permanent to inhabit.

These settlers have been mostly to populations that were either persecuted or discriminated against because of their religion, culture, language or nationality in their original homeland, or a because of a general crisis (climate disasters, famines, epidemics or wars) in a new place wanted to build new lives from hardship.

They were exploited as a rule by a group of ruling elites that their services often by contract insured, as they, mortgaged only by the permanent settlement of the entrusted them or leased lands were able to assert their own claim to power over higher instances. The possible legal claims of indigenous people is ignored in this context either by pointing out that they had the land not used and thus do not possess it, would or by reference to their foreign religion or low level of civilization.

An important difference to the colony is the autonomy of the settlement.

Examples in history

In ancient settlers founded the Hellenistic poleis later Katöken were used specifically to the military power of their kings to secure locally. In Central Europe in the Middle Ages settlements were extended to previously inhospitable areas such as the Holler colonization shows. In the 14th century placed the German Order, with its military successes laid the foundation for the German Ostsiedlung. The first permanent European continent Siedlungem in America were in the territory of the present U.S. states of Virginia and Maryland. Today in Palestine targeted Israelis are located.