A settlement characterized by a concentrated center of political/economic control that exerts influence over a series of smaller less significant settlements over a a great distance. The further the lesser settlements are from the elite center the less allegiance they have towards their the capital settlement.
Dendritic
i'm not sure. I think it's a dendritic pattern
Dendritic pattern
The word is spelled dendritic, just as you spelled it. The word means relating to or resembling a dendrite.
The Amur River features dendritic drainage. This pattern of river system resembles the branching of tree roots and is common in areas with homogenous rock structures, where water flows in a branching pattern towards lower elevations.
I don't know about 'treillis' rivers, but the Loire river seems to me to be dendritic (in the sense of arborescent)
Most Indo-Gangetic Rivers have dendritic (tree-like) drainage pattern.
The dendritic pattern develops where the river channel follows the slope of the terrain. The stream with its tributaries resembles the braches of a tree , thus the name dendritic. It also flows underneath a rock that is the same hardness.
dendritic cell
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I would say Trellis because it doesn't look dendritic, but I can't be sure.
Dendritic because the rivers cross a gradual slope over one basic type of rock.