Settlement schemes in Europe

peloponnesian War, 416 BCE

Nazi plan for the creation of a new German metropolis in German-occupied Norway

human settlement

thumb|Polish military settler from Osada Krechowiecka in the Wołyń Voivodeship (1921–39)|Wołyń Voivodeship, 1928 Osadniks (, "settler/settlers, colonist/colonists") were veterans of the Polish Army and civilians who were given or sold state land in the Kresy (current Western Belarus and Western Ukraine) territory ceded to Poland by Polish-Soviet Riga Peace Treaty of 1921 (and occupied by the Soviet Union in 1939 and ceded to it after World War II). The Polish word was also a loanword that was used in the Soviet Union.

Government body for Germanization of Polish lands

colonial attempts by Poland

colonization of Galicia by Joseph II of Austria

18c. Swedish autonomous island territory