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You can only ever place a settlement somewhere that is connected by your roads and you need to be at least two spaces away from another settlement, including your own. That means no settlement can be adjacent to another settlement.

From the official FAQ: Can the roads I build go through other players' settlements and cities? No. If you build a new road, it must always connect to one of your own roads, settlements, or cities.

Definite "yes." It is an inexpensive way to gain control of an intersection you and your opponent may be competing to build on if you have enough resources for roads but not enough for a settlement. In fact, you can even build a settlement on an opponent's road if one of your road segments intersects with it.

Consider building near one of the trade ports on the edge of the board. Starting on a port is probably a bad idea because you'll want your initial settlements on the intersection of three resource tiles, not only two.

No. If you build a new road, it must always connect to one of your own roads, settlements, or cities. In the situation depicted above, the blue player would not be connecting his road piece to his own road but to the red player's settlement, which the rule prohibits.

Yes, settlements do break up other player's roads. If the blue player has a road that is six segments long, and the red player builds a settlement between two of the blue roads, than we say that the blue player's road is "broken". A broken road can not be counted for the Longest Road card.

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