entrepot
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Xi Jinping will leave China for the first time in more than two years this week to meet Vladimir Putin at the ancient Silk Road entrepot of Samarkand.
From Reuters • Sep. 12, 2022
Much of its layout dates back to its time as an Ottoman protectorate and entrepot for corsair plunder, in the centuries before a French expeditionary force landed at Sidi Ferruch in 1830.
From Washington Post • Apr. 22, 2022
The Russian court was an entrepot of power: its role as a broker allowed participants to amass wealth and bonded them in shared loyalty.
From Economist • Feb. 18, 2016
It is a bet that China will grow, but that its legal and financial systems will remain backward enough that Hong Kong will still have a vital role as the mainland’s first-world entrepot.
From Economist • Feb. 4, 2016
In other words, England was to be the commercial entrepot of the whole empire; and the regulation of imperial trade as a whole was to belong to the English government and parliament.
From The Expansion of Europe The Culmination of Modern History by Muir, Ramsay
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