Sentence examples for merchant town from inspiring English sources

Fortified in the 12th century, it became a free imperial city in 1275 and was a prosperous merchant town along the trade route from Italy.

Salt has a history of being an important merchant town, trading with Nablus in the modern-day West Bank; indeed Salt's trade links were so prominent that it very nearly became Jordan's capital.

In A.D. 179 Marcus Aurelius built his Castra Regina fortress here, and over the next two centuries, Regensburg was reinvented as the capital of the East Frankish kingdom after Bavaria became part of Franconia, a center of monastic art and culture, a free Imperial City, and a wealthy merchant town.

In the 17th century, Chiprovtsi was a rich merchant town in its cultural heyday.

Our last stops were in the old 17th- to 19th-century Edo Period merchant towns of Uchiko, Hagi and Omori.

"But it's the last bastion of a small, local-merchant town".

One of the first world heritage cities to be designated by UNESCO, the 13th-century merchants' town is home to Europe's largest market square and a hilltop palace.

Lassalle was born of Jewish parents; his father, Heymann Lasal, or Loslauer, was a wholesale silk merchant and town councillor.

It's the story of very young, beautiful lovers, the draft notice that separates them, the girl's concerned mother, an out-of-wedlock pregnancy at a time when that was a problem and a handsome diamond merchant visiting town, capped with a "Splendor in the Grass" ending that could tear your heart out.

According to the interviewed nomad cashmere producers, the local buyers collect cashmere and either sell to a merchant in town or store in their own facility.

An extravaganza of tropical fruits and vegetables that brings Bidayuh, Malay and Chinese farmers and merchants to town from noon to 10 p.m. on Saturday and 5 a.m. to 1 or 2 p.m. on Sunday.