#settlement

• Adamstown — The sole permanent settlement and official capital of the Pitcairn Islands, an isolated British Overseas Territory located in the southern Pacific Ocean. The locality houses the entire population of the island (a few dozen residents), primarily composed of the direct descendants of the famous mutineers from the British ship HMS Bounty and their Tahitian companions who settled there in 1790.
• Agribiciu — The name of two rural localities in Romania: a village in Budești commune, Bistrița-Năsăud county, and a village in Ciucea commune, Cluj county. These localities are situated within the rolling hills of the Transylvanian Plateau, preserving traditional architecture and being documented since medieval centuries.
• Alande — A rare toponym or local geographical name designating a hamlet, an isolated rural settlement, or a micro-region historically documented in European administrative registers; in certain older documentary sources, it represents an alternative graphic variant or a regional adaptation for the names of certain border localities. This structural term appears in specialized geographical gazetteers intended for the historical tracking of small landforms and land estates.
• Aledarești — A name of a rural locality, hamlet, or historical microtoponym attested in old land registries or administrative maps within the Romanian territory. Structurally and onomastically, the name indicates the geographical settlement of the descendants or subjects of a local leader named Aledar or Aldea, being specific to the formative pattern of genealogically linked villages.
• Amicable — Being understanding, friendly, benevolent, or conciliatory; relating to disputes, conflicts, or litigations that are resolved peacefully through direct talks, negotiations, or agreements between parties, without resorting to courts of law or coercive measures.
• Angeresti — A Romanian oiconym (place name), used historically or regionally as a toponym to designate rural settlements, villages, or hamlets whose name originates from a founder or a group of locals with the surname Anghel, Anger, or Angelescu. This territorial structure reflects a traditional pattern of forming place names in the Romanian space by appending the collective suffix of family belonging.
• Angherești — A geographical proper name representing a locality, village, hamlet, or neighborhood in Romania, formed with a classic collective-patronymic suffix indicating the original settlement of Anghene's or Anghel's descendants. As a structural entity in the official gazetteer of localities, it preserves the historical value of old land grants and how rural communities developed around a family nucleus.
• Anghinești — A geographical proper name representing a locality, village, or territorial component within the Romanian space, formed with a traditional collective-patronymic suffix indicating the hearth or original settlement of the descendants of the Anghene or Anghel lineage. As an entity in official gazetteers and onomastic databases, it preserves the memory of rural social organization around historical family nuclei.
• Antemia — An archaic geographical designation or rare toponym historically used to denote certain micro-regions, ancient settlements, or territorial formations in the Mediterranean or Balkan basin. In some ancient cartographic sources, the term may represent a corrupted variant, an alternative transcription, or a regional name attributed to localities whose exact coordinates were modified in contemporary official gazetteers.
• Antichresis — A convention or real security contract (specific to old civil law and commercial law) whereby a debtor yields the use and possession of an immovable (or movable) property to their creditor, allowing them to retain the fruits, rents, or revenues generated by the asset to cover interest or partially or fully extinguish the principal debt.
• Antonești — The name of several rural localities and geographical settlements within the Romanian area (located in counties from Romania such as Vâlcea or in districts of the Republic of Moldova), a designation historically formed through collective derivation from the name of a founder or estate owner named Anton or Antonescu. In a geographical and administrative sense, it represents a stable territorial unit, historically populated by structurally related families, whose name preserves the traditional Romanian pattern of group toponym formation.
• Apateu — A large locality and its homonymous commune located in Arad County, within the historical region of Crișana, Romania. The territory is positioned in the Crișurilor Plain and is administratively and economically recognized as a traditional rural settlement primarily focused on agricultural activities, vegetable farming, and livestock breeding.
• Apatiu — A rural locality forming part of Chiochiș town in Bistrița-Năsăud County, located within the historical region of Transylvania, Romania. The settlement is positioned in an area of low rolling hills and is demographically recognized as a small traditional community historically focused on fruit growing and subsistence farming.
• Arbitration — Secondary, neologistic, or legal form of the term 'arbitraj'; an alternative dispute resolution method conducted by an impartial third party designated by the participants or a court. In finance, it represents the operation of simultaneously buying and selling the same asset in different markets to profit from price imbalances.
• Arjanu — A Romanian toponym designating a locality, a village, or a landform within the territory of Romania, such as Arjanu village in Teleorman County. This place name preserves a special ethno-linguistic value for the history of rural communities in the Romanian Plain, reflecting ancient landownership structures, stable peasant settlements, or the physical and hydrographic features of the local terrain.
• Armășești — A Romanian toponym designating a commune located in Ialomița County, consisting of the villages Armășești, Malu Roșu, Nenișori, and Bihori. The settlement's name is historically linked to ancient agrarian occupations and local stud farms or to the name of landowners (armăși), representing a stable administrative entity in the Romanian Plain.
• Armeniș — A geographical proper name borne by a commune in Caraș-Severin county, Banat, Romania, composed of several villages, most notably the homonymous residential village. Located in a mountainous and picturesque landform area, the locality is historically and administratively recognized in the national cadastre as a landmark along traditional transport corridors in the west of the country.
• Arsura — The official name of several rural localities and watercourses in Romania, including the commune and village of Arsura in Vaslui County, as well as homonymous villages in counties like Vâlcea or Galați. Etymologically, the structural name originates from the historical practices of clearing forest land through burning to create agricultural spaces, referred to as village hearths, preserved as such in administrative documents.
• Settlement — An old regional form or archaic phonetic variant for the noun 'așezare' (settlement/placement); the act of placing or settling and its result; geometric location, arrangement, organization of a space, a settlement, village, or human colony established in a specific geographic point.
• Placement variant — An incorrect and non-literary spelling variant for the noun 'așezare' (settlement / arrangement); the act of placing or its result; a mode of structural arrangement, location of an object, or establishment of a human community in a specific geographic place (village, town, colony). It is a lexical deviation generated by faulty derivation from the erroneous infinitive 'așaza'.