The tiny Swahili coast island has been known since the 14th century as a sort of intercontinental trading outpost.

The village used to be a prosperous trading outpost in the 8th and 9th centuries.

Qebui would become merely a trading outpost of the empire.

The company rented a trading outpost in Madras in 1639.

He is credited with turning Hakodate from a trading outpost into a thriving city.

It grew, as most frontier towns grew, over the years into a trading outpost for the region.

Typically they act as drydocks, battle stations or trading outposts.

A trade ship may only be moved onto an outpost intersection if they satisfy the requirements for building trading outposts there.

He set up a business in the town, which at the time was a small trading outpost.

First established as a trading outpost, tourism would eventually boom and fuel growth for decades.