poblar

Las aldeas se poblaron cada vez más por niños y ancianos.	Villages increasingly became populated by the young and elderly.
En primer lugar se poblaron y se trazaron calles en los terrenos del Golfo y el Cascajal que se rellenaron para aumentarles su nivel, llamándosele Cascajal a esta superficie de tierra, por encontrarse ahí gran cantidad de cascajo o conchas marinas.	First new streets were traced on the Gulf and Cascajal lands that were filled to increase their sizes, this new land was renamed Cascajal given the large amount of sea shells found.
Las islas se poblaron durante un período de 40.000 años.	The Islands were settled over a 40,000-year period.
En la primera mitad del s. IV las zonas desérticas de Egipto septentrional se poblaron de colonias de eremitas, cuyos dichos se recogieron en los Apophtegmata Patrum.	In the first half of the fourth century, the desert areas of northern Egypt were populated by colonies of hermits, whose sayings (dicta) were gathered together in the Apophthegmata Patrum.
Con el tiempo, las tierras de Oriente Medio se poblaron principalmente con pueblos semitas, aunque también se encontraron familias anteriores de estirpe hamita a lo largo de la llanura marítima y de la costa mediterránea.	Eventually, the lands of the Middle East were settled primarily by Semitic people, even though earlier families of Hamitic stock were also to be found along the maritime plain and Mediterranean seacoast.
Ambos países se poblaron de colonos que se posaban sobre un terreno de tierra salvaje y lo hacían suyo, y que en muchos casos defendían incluso con el uso de la fuerza, como los libros y el cine ya nos han relatado.	Both countries were filled with settlers who came to a wild land and made it their own, and in many cases had to make use of force to defend it, as books and movies have already told us.