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ENTREPOT. A warehouse; a magazine where goods are deposited, and which are again to be removed. |
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That Singapore would serve as a base for a variety of commercial activities (chapter VII), including smuggling of contraband, is no surprise, given the city-state's historical role as a trading entrepot at the heart of Southeast Asian commerce. The roots of controversy over episcopal control of the province's flourishing entrepot were deep-seated and represented part of a wider on-going, adamantine struggle between rival Catholic traditions. Alexandria was the focus of the Hellenic world, by far the largest city before the rise of Rome: the Greek-speaking world's greatest entrepot and its intellectual powerhouse. |
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