The boats, which the Romans called Lembi, were well known for their fast manoeuvrability.The many pieces of pottery found indicate that this was a major trading post.And last but not least: about a hundred metres from the harbour site they found an Illyrian settlement....
The estimated population during the Nabataean period is unknown, because evidence of a residential community was obliterated by the later construction phases.However, because the town was likely a major trading post along the same route as Bostra, the population could have been several thousand strong.Numerous Nabataean and Greek tombstones testify to their presence....
Fort Christanna was built to protect the Virginia colony in two critical ways: as a bulwark intended to ward off military assault, and as a center for the Christianization and education of the Saponi and other Southeastern groups.Fort Christanna also served as a major trading post for the corporate Virginia Indian Company.Roughly seventy Saponi children were educated and converted to Christianity at Fort Christanna by the missionary teacher Charles Griffin of North Carolina....
The fort became a major trading post, attracting Native Americans from throughout the northern Great Lakes.After Great Britain defeated France in the Seven Years' War (French and Indian War), their colonial forces took over the fort and territory....
Furthermore, Pratte encircled the fort with a wooden picket fence roughly twenty or thirty feet high to prevent Native attacks.Thus fortified, Fort Kiowa was expanded into a major trading post for Natives in the region....
It was also the capital of the Kingdom of Bonny.Traditionally (especially between the 15th and 19th centuries) it was a major trading post of the eastern delta.Bonny Island, is a major export point for oil....
Its inland location and lack of a port kept it from becoming a major trading post such as Salamis and Paphos.The city also lacked the cosmopolitan character of the island's coastal cities....
Nianing was once a major trading post for cotton and peanuts.Today, the city is situated on the main road that leads from M'Bour to Joal-Fadiouth....
The city served as a major trading post between New Orleans and Natchitoches in the 18th and 19th centuries.Traditionally an area of settlement by French Creoles and Acadians, Opelousas is the center of zydeco music....
The site is located approximately (in river miles) above the hamlet of Sleetmute.The site is the location of a major trading post, which was one of the only ones established deep in the Alaskan interior by the Russian-American Company.The first site established by the Russians, in 1832, was little more than a log cabin near the confluence of the Kuskokwim with the Holitna River, and was known as Kolmakov's Townlet, after the trader Fedor Kolmakov....
In a few years, they had quickly fallen to a small minority, due to more disease, displacement from their land, and the rising European and Asian populations.In the early 19th century, Fort Langley was the Hudson's Bay Company's first major trading post.During this time, trade went on between the Squamish and Fort Langley....
The village grew up around the fortress and became a major trading post between the Norwegians in Finnmark county and the nearby Russians.
Due to its role as a major trading post, the city was the departure point for the Lewis and Clark Expedition in 1804.American and other immigrant families began arriving in St. Louis and opening new businesses, including printing and banking, starting in the 1810s....
The Lawra market is a major trading post in Lawra in Upper West Region of Ghana.
In time, the original name was taken up again.In the 19th century, the town served as a major trading post for the Royal Greenland Trading Department's trade in reindeer hides.There are advanced plans for an Alcoa aluminium smelting plant either at Maniitsoq or Sisimiut....
His expeditions across the Canadian Prairies were mainly to seek contact with the aboriginal population for the purpose of establishing the fur trade, as competition was fierce between the Hudson's Bay Company and the North West Company.By 1795, Fort Edmonton was established on the north bank of the river, as a major trading post for the Hudson's Bay Company.The name of the new fort was suggested by John Peter Pruden after Edmonton, London, the home town of both the HBC deputy governor Sir James Winter Lake, and Pruden....
The French relinquished the fort, along with their territory in Canada, to the British in 1761 following their loss in the French and Indian War.Although British continued to operate the fort as a major trading post, the Ojibwe (Chippewa) in the region resented British policies as harsh.On June 2, 1763, as part of the larger movement known as Pontiac's Rebellion, a group of Ojibwe staged a game of bag'gat'tway (lacrosse) outside the fort as a ruse to gain entrance....
