Sentence examples for a trading station from inspiring English sources

A trading station for spice imports in the 10th century, Montpellier acquired a charter in 1141.

In 1879 the British-American explorer Henry (later Sir Henry Morton Stanleyy opened a trading station there.

The city was founded in 1771 and was formerly the capital of the sultanate of Pontianak, a trading station that later became the chief gold city of Borneo.

In the 1870s a trading station was opened at Port Hunter (now Balanawang Harbour), and the area's first Methodist mission was established in 1880.

Already a flourishing port when the Portuguese arrived in the 16th century, Makassar subsequently came under the control of the Dutch, who built a trading station in 1607 and finally deposed the sultan in 1669.

Madox, a protégé of the Earl of Leicester, had volunteered to join an expedition to the Far East, originally supposed to be led by Martin Frobisher, with a view to building a trading station in the Spice Islands.

It was founded in 1851 as a trading post and provisioning station to serve passing wagon trains along the Emigrant Trail.

The site was originally a Portuguese settlement that became the seat of a Dutch trading station and an important river anchorage for Dutch shipping.

Call to see if your local radio station has a trading post.

The town of Kufra in Libya's distant southern desert is a long way from anywhere - historically it was a key trading station and place of rest for travellers between central and northern Africa.

Chinsurah was an important 17th-century settlement of the Dutch, who built a factory (trading station) there in 1656.