The initial settlers were predominantly of German stock, and emigrated from Pennsylvania.

More than 2400 settlers emigrated from the Nashville and Sumner County areas.

A British governor was appointed to the region and many settlers emigrated from Europe and the Cape Colony.

The town was reorganized in 1718 as Biddeford, after Bideford, a town in Devon, England, from which some settlers had emigrated.

Irish and Scottish settlers emigrated in the 17th century, working in the tobacco industry, bringing still more new music to the island.

Except for its volcanoes and hot springs, Iceland looked rather similar to areas of Norway and Britain whence the settlers had emigrated.

New Holstein is named after the Schleswig-Holstein region in Germany from which many early settlers emigrated.

In the 1890s, Ukrainian agricultural settlers emigrated to first to Brazil, and Argentina.

These early settlers had largely emigrated from Ireland to Virginia, then to Kentucky, and finally to the area of Hanover.

The Kristang community still has surprising cultural and linguistic continuities with today's Portugal, especially with the Minho region, from where many early settlers emigrated.