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Aden & the Indian Ocean trade : 150 years in the life of a medieval Arabian port
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ISBN: 9780807830765 0807830763 1469614928 1469606712 9798890880390 9781469606712 Year: 2007 Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press,

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Positioned at the crossroads of the maritime routes linking the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, the Yemeni port of Aden grew to be one of the medieval world's greatest commercial hubs. Approaching Aden's history between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries through the prism of overseas trade and commercial culture, Roxani Eleni Margariti examines the ways in which physical space and urban institutions developed to serve and harness the commercial potential presented by the city's strategic location.Utilizing historical and archaeological methods, Margariti draws together a ric

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