After this the population dwindled, with a moderate surge of reoccupation in the 12th century before declining again to a small agricultural village. (actionboysbelize.com)
The new tyranny on the horizon was not the jackbooted totalitarian state of Orwell's 1984; that was the tyranny that had haunted our dreams during what Jeane Kirkpatrick once aptly described as the «Fifty - Five Years» Emergency» — the civilizational crisis that ran from Hitler's military reoccupation of the Rhineland in 1936 to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. (firstthings.com)
In formerly glaciated regions, the Holocene has been a time for the reinstitution of ordinary processes of subaerial erosion and progressive reoccupation by a flora and fauna. (britannica.com)