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A settler is a person who has human migration, migrated to an area and established a permanent residence there, often to colonize the area.
A settler who migrates to an area previously uninhabited or sparsely inhabited may be described as a ...
is a person who has migrated, who takes up residence on land and cultivates it, as opposed to a nomad.
Settler or settlers may also refer to:
Books
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''The Settlers'' (novel), a Swedish novel by Vilhelm Moberg
*''The Settlers'', Canadian novel, published in 1844 by
Frederick Marryat
Captain Frederick Marryat (10 July 1792 – 9 August 1848) was a Royal Navy officer, a novelist, and an acquaintance of Charles Dickens. He is noted today as an early pioneer of nautical fiction, particularly for his semi-autobiographical novel ...
*''The Settlers'', an American novel set in Palestine, by
Meyer Levin
Meyer Levin (October 7, 1905 – July 9, 1981) was an American novelist. Perhaps best known for his work on the Leopold and Loeb case, Levin worked as a journalist (for the ''Chicago Daily News'' and, from 1933–1939, as an editor for ''Esquire ...
in 1972
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Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat'', 1983 book by J. Sakai
Film and TV
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''The Settlers'' (2016 film), an Israeli documentary film directed by Shimon Dotan
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''The Settlers'' (2023 film), an internationally co-produced Western drama film directed by Felipe Gálvez Haberle
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''Settlers'' (film), a 2021 film by Wyatt Rockefeller
Games
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The Settlers of Catan
''Catan'', previously known as ''The Settlers of Catan'' or simply ''Settlers'', is a multiplayer board game designed by Klaus Teuber. It was first published in 1995 in Germany by Franckh-Kosmos Verlag (Kosmos) as ''Die Siedler von Catan''. Pl ...
'', a German board game also known as simply ''Settlers''
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''The Settlers'' (video game series), a video game series
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''The Settlers'' (1993 video game), the first game in the series
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The Settlers DS'', a Nintendo DS video game
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The Settlers HD'', a portable video game
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''The Settlers'' (2020 video game)
Music
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The Settlers (band)
The Settlers are an English folk-orientated music group, originally from the English West Midlands, who formed in the mid-1960s. The band folded in the early 1980s, relaunched in 2018, and disbanded again in 2021.
Formation and genre
The group ...
, a British folk band of the 1960s and early 70s
Other
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Sporting Life Settler, an electronic betting calculator designed by Sinclair
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Israeli settler
Israeli settlements, or Israeli colonies, are civilian communities inhabited by Israeli citizens, overwhelmingly of Jewish ethnicity, built on lands occupied by Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War. The international community considers Israeli se ...
s, civilians who moved to lands occupied by Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War
See also
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The Settlers (disambiguation)
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Settler Swahili, a Swahili pidgin
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Charles Carroll the Settler
Charles Carroll (1661–1720), sometimes called Charles Carroll the Settler to differentiate him from his son and grandson, was a wealthy lawyer and planter in colonial Maryland. Carroll, a Catholic, is best known because his efforts to hold off ...
(1661–1720), lawyer and planter in colonial Maryland
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Settling
Settling is the process by which particulates move towards the bottom of a liquid and form a sediment. Particles that experience a force, either due to gravity or due to centrifugal motion will tend to move in a uniform manner in the direction e ...
, the process where particulates settle to the bottom of a liquid
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