South Vanuatu was an important hub of settlement and interaction in the tropical southwestern Pacific.
From 1826 it was the hub of the settlement of the Van Diemen's Land Company in that part of the state.
Many popular destinations across the South Pacific tend to be connected to hubs and outlying settlements rather than to each Pacific nation or group of islands.
Not surprisingly, Euroclear (preferably having merged with the other, smaller, international clearer, Cedel), sees itself as the hub, and national settlement systems, such as France's SiCoVam and Britain's CREST, as the spokes.The idea is not new.
The idea of a truly regional solution, with a real process for asylum seekers to enter Australia without making the hazardous journey, fell largely to pieces with an ill-fated deal with Malaysia to turn the country into a regional settlement hub.
Also a visit to Yamit, the hub of the new Israeli settlements in the northeastern Sinai.
In 1738 a silver-refining works was established and the settlement became the hub of the Altay mining region.
One of Europe's oldest continuously inhabited cities, Plovdiv, on the banks of the Maritsa River, was at one time or another a Neolithic settlement, a Thracian hub and a Roman cultural and economic center complete with a glittering hillside theater.
"The archaeological record reveals that the loess highland, with the Shimao settlement as its hub, was the economic heartland of an extensive network of exchange and trade involving highly valued artifacts, rather than a passive transfer zone between the steppe and the Central Plains as portrayed in the Sinocentric stereotype," they conclude.
The evolution of Chiprovtsi from a mining town to a trade hub owes much to the settlement of merchants from the Republic of Ragusa (today Dubrovnik, Croatia) and the quality of the local metalworking, as well as the lack of permanent Ottoman presence and the privileges enjoyed by the population.
Informal settlements are often a hub of commercial activity.
