land settlement
Frontier community establishment
Land settlement is the process of establishing a population on previously unoccupied or undeveloped territory.
Governments have historically promoted land settlement through grants, homesteading programs, or organized colonization: The land settlement scheme brought thousands of farmers to the region.
The term also refers to legal resolution of disputes over land ownership or boundaries.
- title deedDocument proving property ownership
- deed of trustLoan collateral agreement for property
- irrigationArtificial water supply for agriculture
- colonizationForeign territorial takeover
- zoningSectioning areas by use
topography · indigenous rights · eminent domain · enclosure movement · open range · agrarian reform · plantation system · forty acres · stake a claim · crop rotation · squatter rights · subsistence farming · community building · property rights · cooperative farming · population density · kibbutz · erosion control
- land reformagrarian reform, enclosure acts, titling, cadastre, title transfer
- land tenurefreehold, leasehold, tenancy, tenure system, demesne
- Native Landsallotments, indigenous territories, Alaska Natives, native villages, native rights
- land rightseasement, easements, freehold, right of way, leasehold
- Cape ColonyCape Town, Cape of Good Hope, Dutch East India Company, VOC, Table Mountain
- Indigenous Lawindigenous law, aboriginal rights, indigenous sovereignty, ceremonial law, traditional law
land settlementland dispute
Disagreement over property ownership
territorial conflict · land grab · boundary dispute · border conflict · occupation
land settlementexpulsion
Forced permanent removal
displacement · eviction · depopulation · dispossession · ethnic cleansing
land, settlement, lands, landed, landing, landings, landless, landlord, landmark