In 1890 it was known as the incorporated rural settlement of Askania-Nova.

Nevertheless, the home location of the Kamash indios (hispanized to Camacho or Camach) is known as the first permanent human settlement of Barranquilla.

The city is well known as the first settlement in Europe to be granted its own coat-of-arms.

Negash is known as the earliest Muslim settlement in Africa; a seventh century cemetery has been excavated inside the village boundaries.

Its radical mixture of capitalist dynamism and socialist compassion became known as the 'Australian settlement'.

His house later became known as the Old Frenchman's Place, and the small settlement as Frenchman's Bend.

Over time the location of the station and the shops around it became known as Toongabbie and the original settlement was called Old Toongabbie to differentiate the two.

It formed one part of a larger body of legislation enacted known as the permanent settlement.

During that era, Yeadon was known as the Swedish settlement of Mölndal (founded in 1645).

Though formally the factory was built on the lands belonging to the village of Zhereslo, the factory settlement became known as the settlement of Parfino.