Before the unification of Egypt, the land was settled with autonomous villages.

In 1893 Montford was incorporated as an autonomous village to the north of Asheville.

At the same time, the tribe began to move from autonomous villages and towns, to a more centralized government.

Prior to the beginning of the Hồng Bàng period, the land was settled by autonomous villages.

The two once autonomous villages are separated by the A 3.

Arbanasi was populated (or repopulated) in the late 15th century and as an administratively autonomous village in the Ottoman Empire attracted many settlers.

This title had no traditional meaning for the Delawares, who lived in autonomous villages.

Heuweiler is one of the smallest autonomous villages of the district Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald.

Buttino was inhabited until the late 19th Century and was an autonomous village as far back as the 13th Century.

Before the 20th century, Torajans lived in autonomous villages, where they practised animism and were relatively untouched by the outside world.