What is "colonised"

Usage examples of "colonised".

But it was a Shaara ship that made the first landing, so it was colonised by the Shaara, as was Brooum, a very similar world.

It was strange, but no matter what system was set up to run a newly colonised planet, some elite always developed which took for itself advantages that the average citizen could not access.

The Phoenicians and the Greeks, with unremembered drifts behind them, colonised the Mediterranean.

The Sh'im had colonised three different star systems, one quite far from the home world, which proved they had been space-faring for a significant period of time.