Sedat Ozkaya, a local journalist, says the military presence has made an industrial backwater of Gallipoli.

The area has long been known as a rather grim industrial backwater of the city.

From virtually an industrial backwater in 1978, China is now the world's biggest producer of concrete, steel, ships and textiles, and has the world's largest automobile market.

Farther down the waterfront, Jersey City has been transformed from an industrial backwater into a corporate annex to Manhattan's financial district.

Skyscrapers in the Paddy Fields Pudong, on the east bank, was an agricultural and industrial backwater until three years ago.

In the end, though, the loss of a major employer, compounded by the deaths, exposes an industrial backwater here.

Because these traditional industries may be vulnerable to American competition under the free-trade accord, the Premier warns that Ontario could become an industrial backwater.

A two-hour flight east of Moscow, Perm - Europe's eastern-most city - strikes you more as an industrial backwater than it does a future art capital.

An overpoweringly beautiful building with a baroque extravagance of form and an exquisite sensitivity to its site, the Guggenheim Bilbao transformed an industrial Spanish backwater into a cultural mecca.