It is a global banking and trading center.
Kandahar is a trading center dating from Alexander the Great.
Mainz, which is along the Rhine River, has been a busy trading center since Roman times.
Mogadishu was once beautiful, cosmopolitan, a trading center with the Arab world.
Greenwood was a cotton trading center where the racist White Citizen Councils maintained their regional headquarters.
It soon became a major trading center, serving boats and stagecoaches traveling along the coast.
The rebels claimed last week that they had captured the port, the main economic trading center for Ethiopia.
A French colony until 1960, the area that is now Mali includes Timbuktu, the legendary trading center.
People from the Middle East, Asia and Europe have visited the Indian Ocean trading center for thousands of years.
The equity desk is based in San Francisco, which remains a trading center, not in New York.
Until about 10 years ago, Oulu was best known as a former trading center for black tar.
