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 the year 1557 an English commercial fleet entered the Baltic Sea and proceeded to the mouth of the Dwina to establish there an entrepot of English merchandise.
From The Empire of Russia by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)
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Southeast Asia - Middle School
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