They controlled the Volga trade route ( Route from the Varangians to the Arabs ), connecting the Baltic to the Caspian Sea, and the Dnieper trade route ( Route from the Varangians to the Greeks ) leading to the Black Sea and Constantinople.

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Raynald of Châtillon, in particular, harassed Muslim trading and pilgrimage routes with a fleet on the Red Sea, a water route that Saladin needed to keep open.

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The Directory agreed in order to secure a trade route to India.

Dubai maintained its importance as a trade route through the 1970s and 1980s.

Thus, political or military control of an oasis has in many cases meant control of trade on a particular route.

Another possible link between the Cimmerians from rivers Tyras and Tanais and the Nordic countries and possibly the Sicambri of the lower Rhine is the fact that the eastern amber road was a trade link between the Baltic Sea and the Black Sea over which there was a diffusion of cultures.

In medieval times Merv (today known as Mary) was one of the great cities of the Islamic world, and an important stop on the Silk Road, a caravan route used for trade with China until the mid 15th century.

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International trade, facilitated by the shipping route in adjacent Strait of Malacca, and manufacturing are the key sectors.

As Timbuktu was the southern end of the principal Trans Saharan trade route to the western Mediterranean, it was the source of most European knowledge of the region.

Trade was also flourishing the Venetians, the Genoese and others opened up the ports of the Aegean to commerce, shipping goods from the Crusader kingdoms of Outremer and Fatimid Egypt to the west and trading with the Empire via Constantinople.

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In De Administrando Imperio (c. 950) he described Smolensk as a key station on the trade route from the Varangians to the Greeks.

Muslim Moors, whose prime interests were trade, began to settle in Colombo around the 8th century AD mostly because the port helped their business by the way of controlling much of the trade between the Sinhalese kingdoms and the outside world.

In addition to these, the smaller Port of Eilat is situated on the Red Sea, and is used mainly for trading with Far East countries.

It was the first Japanese port on the Sea of Japan to be opened to foreign trade following the opening of Japan by Matthew Perry.

Susauna is a hamlet on the territory of S chanf municipality, situated on the road to Scaletta Pass, a historic international trading route.

For decades Portugal had been searching for an alternate route to the East, in order to bypass the Mediterranean Sea which was under the control of the Italian Maritime Republics and the Ottoman Empire.

In 1277, the first merchant fleet from Genoa appeared in the port of Bruges, first of the merchant colony that made Bruges the main link to the trade of the Mediterranean.

Only the sea offered alternatives, with most people settling in fishing and trading coastal areas.

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The section along the river Phasis was a vital component of the presumed trade route from India to the Black Sea, attested by Strabo and Pliny.

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As a result, growth in intra regional trade has outpaced overall trade growth, with intra Asian trade now accounting for more than half of the continent s total trade turnover.

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Another route was over the coastal regions until Laguna.

On 28 December 2014, Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501 crashed into the Java Sea while en route to Singapore from Surabaya, Indonesia due to bad weather.

The aridness of the region made agriculture difficult, and its distance from the sea cut it off from much trade.

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The Asian free trade zone, almost free trade zone, that's emerging now has a greater trade volume than trade across the Pacific.

Kandalaksha Gulf lies in the western part of the White Sea it is the deepest part of the sea, reaching 340 metres (1,115 feet).

By 1887, the transcontinental railway was extended to the city to take advantage of its large natural seaport, which soon became a vital link in a trade route between the Orient, Eastern Canada, and Europe.

There's a story in the sea, in the waters of the sea, in the sediments and the rocks of the sea floor.

In ancient times the expedition was regarded as a historical fact, an incident in the opening up of the Black Sea to Greek commerce and colonization.

The Volga route declined by the end of the century, and the trade route from the Varangians to the Greeks rapidly overtook it in popularity.

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The route, approved by military authorities, included a route along the Maginot Line.

In the 15th century, the Portuguese went to Africa in search of a route to India, started producing sugarcane then moved onto the more lucrative business of slavery.

2001 Siberia Airlines Flight 1812 a Sibir Airlines Tupolev Tu 154 crashes into the Black Sea after being struck by an errant Ukrainian S 200 missile.

Studies of juveniles dispersing at sea have suggested an innate migration behaviour, a genetically coded navigation route, which helps young birds when they are first out at sea.

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