arroccamenti
English translation: settlements
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| 14:04 Nov 5, 2012 |
| Italian to English translations [PRO] Environment & Ecology / research, surveys | |||||||
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|  Selected response from: Jo Macdonald Spain Local time: 19:34 | ||||||
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| 4 | enclaves /small local communities |
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| 3 | shorings up |
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| 3 | settlements |
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shorings up Explanation: It's a bit of an odd one perhaps but it might communicate both geographical and psycological meanings. Egs: Personal Impressions About The Trail . news.google.com/newspapers?nid... - Traduci questa pagina —with a few million dollars' worth of improve ments, like a bridge at Bullfrog Creek, gravel in some washouts and shorings up here and there, the dirt road would ... [PDF] 59101 - CONSTRUCTION I https://www.eupc.uclm.es/escuela/guiadocente2/ingles/.../591... Formato file: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - Visualizzazione rapida building, shorings up and underpinnings, arches and vaults, these two last topics being of a great interest for the thorough understanding of the constructive ... Slog Comments - The Stranger www.thestranger.com/.../Comments?oid... - Traduci questa pagina 9 Dec 2008 – Petards are auto-hoisting in China, and he prescribes massive emergency bank shorings-up and stimuli to protect them against a protectionist ... |
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settlements Explanation: Hi Peter, Methinks fortified settlements which have turned into towns or cities such as Ravenna. See maps of the park here http://ambiente.regione.emilia-romagna.it/parchi-natura2000/... Basically imo what they're saying is the current delta is the result of settlements being built and developed and zones being allocated, forming an archipelago of islands (some settlements built on actual islands), etc. insediamenti e arroccamenti come la città-fortezza edificata da Cosimo http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd... Some more references here https://www.google.com/search?q=arroccamenti delta po&ie=utf... |
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enclaves /small local communities Explanation: Enclaves in the broad sense has strong ethnic connotations. Alternatively, since nobody seems to have come up with a near synonym, just say what they are, small local communities. |
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