What is "thickly settled"

Usage examples of "thickly settled".

For most of the 19th Century this remained the most thickly settled and richest zone of the Domination, and a source of surplus Citizen population for frontier settlement.

While the Picts are besieging the fort, war-parties will range the road far to the east - might even cross Thunder River and raid the thickly settled country behind Velitrium.

This steading had been long planned as a barrier to protect the more thickly settled lands to the east, and perhaps to encourage peaceful commerce once the raiders found their sport growing too expensive.

Late on the second day, the thickly settled shores of the trading capital of Lakazsh D'Nali came into view.

While the Picts are besieging the fort, war parties will range the road far to the east -- might even cross Thunder River and raid the thickly settled country behind Velitrium.

Too many Aquilonian raiders had crossed the mountains in not too-distant days for the countryside to be thickly settled as it was farther to the east.

Too many Aquilonian raiders had crossed the mountains in not too distant days for the countryside to be thickly settled as it was farther to the east.

Too many Aquilonian raiders had crossed the mountains to not too-distant days for the countryside to be thickly settled as it was farther to the east.

It was once thickly settled by the Maya who used the rivers for intercity commerce, and several times they had glimpsed gray ruins through the trees.

The thought of attacking the thickly settled Sharon Valley was distasteful.

We rode leisurely along until we had reached the more thickly settled portion of the city, when we halted, and after taking the bridles from our horses to allow them to graze, we prepared for a regular attack upon its inhabitants.

I observed artificial mounds (or as I may more justly term graves) which to me is a EM evidence of this country being once thickly settled.