Sentence examples for trading entrepot from inspiring English sources

What I had discovered was the real Dubai, the ageless trading entrepot where Orient and Occident meet.

King George declared Delhi again to be India's capital, as it had been under Mughal rulers, relegating Calcutta to a mere trading entrepot.

Blessed with fewer oil or gas deposits than its neighbours, the emirate has long sought other ways to make a living and has thrived as a trading entrepot living off its wits.

Following the 1997 handover, China became the third-largest user of the canal, after the United States and Japan, and now accounts for 20% of the cargo entering the Colon Free Zone, a huge trading entrepot.

A small river town called Qiaotou became a trading entrepot between Shanghai button makers and garment factories farther down the coast, after Deng Xiaoping allowed free markets to sprout around the country.

This exhibition reveals recent finds from two long-lost Egyptian cities, Thonis-Heracleion and Canopus, both trading entrepots at the mouth of the Nile.

The region has freeway and rail access to Los Angeles and Long Beach, a foreign trade entrepot.

Entrepot trade has been worth billions of dollars a year.

Okinawans mastered the oceans and developed a far-flung, monsoon-borne entrepot trade not just with near-neighbours Japan, Korea anear-neighbours Japanh Indonesia, Malacca (the crossroads of South-East Asian trade), and even Siam (modern-day Thailand).

They lacked natural resources and faced a declining entrepot trade and a growing population which required jobs.

When three Armenian brothers--Arshak, Aviet and Tigran Sarkies--founded the Raffles more than a century ago, Singapore was a frontier town, a sleepy entrepot trade port.