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Before 1321 Scottish merchants had established a staple in Bruges. The staple was moved to Middelburg in Zeeland several times in the fifteenth century. Although Bruges remained the major trading partner, from the 1460s trade also developed with Veere, Bergen op Zoom and Antwerp. Wool and hides were the major exports in the late Middle Ages.
In the 1904-05 Russo-Japanese War, the Dogger Bank incident forced the Russian fleet to sail around Africa. The European-Asian sea route, commonly known as the sea route to India or the Cape Route, is a shipping route from the European coast of the Atlantic Ocean to Asia's coast of the Indian Ocean passing by the Cape of Good Hope and Cape ...
Dresden, Ontario. / 42.59028°N 82.18167°W / 42.59028; -82.18167. Dresden is an agricultural community in southwestern Ontario, Canada, part of the municipality of Chatham-Kent. It is located on the Sydenham River. The community is named after Dresden, Germany.
Economic history of Venice. Venice, which is situated at the north end of the Adriatic Sea, was for hundreds of years the richest and most powerful centre of Europe, the reason being that it gained large-scale profits from the adjacent middle European markets. Venice was the major centre of trade with the Arabs and indirectly the Indians during ...
Toronto ( / təˈrɒntoʊ / ⓘ tə-RONT-oh) is a lakeside suburb within the City of Lake Macquarie, Greater Newcastle in New South Wales, Australia, approximately 28 kilometres (17 mi) from Newcastle 's central business district and is a commercial hub for the sprawling suburbs on the western shore of the lake. It is one of the major centres ...
The Merchant Navy operated in the Pacific War and European war. Over 200 US Merchant ships took part in the D-day Normandy landings. To make a Normandy breakwater Harbor, called Mulberry harbour, 33 merchant ships were sunk 1,000 yards from shore. Some of the ghosts merchant ships used were damaged and others were deemed too old.
Highway 400 Toronto–Barrie Highway Highway 400 highlighted in red Route information Maintained by Ministry of Transportation of Ontario Length 226.0 km (140.4 mi) History Opened December 1, 1951 – July 1, 1952 Major junctions South end Maple Leaf Drive – Toronto (continues as Black Creek Drive) Major intersections Highway 401 – Toronto 407 ETR – Vaughan Highway 11 – Barrie Highway ...
A trade route is a logistical network identified as a series of pathways and stoppages used for the commercial transport of cargo. The term can also be used to refer to trade over bodies of water. Allowing goods to reach distant markets, a single trade route contains long-distance arteries, which may further be connected to smaller networks of ...