Emporium (antiquity)

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An emporium refers to a

Latin: emporium. The plural is emporia in both languages, although in Greek the plural undergoes a semantic shift to mean 'merchandise'.[1] Emporium is a term that has also been used to describe the centres of heightened trade during the Early Middle Ages.[2]

Emporia varied greatly in their level of activity. Some seem to have functioned much like the permanent European trading colonies in China, India and Japan in the

trade fairs
.

Examples

Famous emporia include:

Elim, where Hatshepsut kept her Red Sea
fleet;

Aram, Lebanon, Ammon, Hazor, Moab, Edom, Punt and the Arabian Peninsula from Petra to Midian
;

Greek colony
in Egypt;

Olbia
, which exported cereals, fish and slaves;

and

Sais, where Solon went to acquire the knowledge of Egypt
.

In the

Kanesh and Kadesh. For Phoenicia, it included Cádiz, Carthage, Leptis Magna, and Cyrene
, among others (although Cyrene had been founded by Greeks).

See also

Sources

  • Valente, Marcello (2023). _elementi di razionalità economica nel commercio greco. Pisa: Edizioni ETS.
    ISBN 9788846766588
    .
  • Birley, Anthony. Septimius Severus: The African Emperor. pp. 1–7.

References

  1. Perseus Project
  2. ^ From one sea to another. Trading places in the European and Mediterranean Early Middle ages: Proceedings of the International Conference, Comacchio 27th-29th March 2009. 2012. p. 239.


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