Its chief trade is in grain, dispatched by rail to the Danubian port of Zimnicea, or by river to Giurgiu.

Casablanca is Morocco's largest city as well as its chief port.

The canal fostered a population surge in western New York State, opened regions farther west to settlement, and helped New York City become the chief U. S. port.

Mumbai Port is the chief trading port in India on the coast of the Indian Ocean, often known as " The Gateway of India ".

Zanzibar was once the chief port on the East African, Indian Ocean coast.

St. Thomas city was the capital of the island, then a free port, and the chief station of the steam-packets between Southampton, in England, and the West Indies.

West Timor's largest town and chief port is Kupang.

New London, Connecticut was a chief privateering port for the American colonies, leading to the British Navy blockading it in 1778-1779.

Geographically, the Basseterre port is located at, on the south western coast of Saint Kitts Island, and it is one of the chief commercial depots of the Leeward Islands.

Bujumbura (; ) is the capital and largest city and main port of Burundi and ships most of the country's chief export, coffee, as well as cotton, skins, and tin ore.

It is the home of the national government, principal port, and the chief industrial and cultural centre of the country.

It was the chief port of French Equatorial Africa from 1934 to 1946 and was the central focus of the Battle of Gabon in 1940.

Located on the Gulf of Guinea, Lomé is the country's administrative and industrial center and its chief port.

The chief towns of Roman Numidia were: in the north, Cirta or modern Constantine, the capital, with its port Rusicada ( Modern Skikda ); Hippo Regius or ( near Bône ), well known as the see of St. Augustine.

Matadi is the chief sea port of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the capital of the Bas-Congo province.

The Great Western Railway originated from the desire of Bristol merchants to maintain their city as the second port of the country and the chief one for American trade.

The port of Piraeus is the chief port in Greece, the largest passenger port in Europe and the third largest in the world, servicing about 20 million passengers annually.

During that time the port of Richborough, on the opposite side of the Wantsum Channel ( see Geography below ), became one of the chief ports.

Since the elevation of Tianjin to a provincial-level municipality, Qinhuangdao is the chief port of Hebei.

This five-river junction has become an important alluvial port as well as a chief industrial and commercial center of Brazil.

Poitiers, the former capital of the region, is its chief city, although the port of La Rochelle rivals it in economic importance.

Guayaquil is Ecuador's chief port and principal commercial and manufacturing center.

His chief fortress was said to have been Caer Wyddno (), located somewhere to the north-west of modern-day Aberystwyth.

In the 19th century the town became a spa town and before the growth of Coalville it was the chief town in north-west Leicestershire.

Some Buddhist inscriptions found in the Pal caves, located about a mile north-west of Mhar in Raigad district of Maharashtra, contain a reference to a chief of a Kamboj dynasty, Prince Vishnupalita Kambhoja, as ruling in Kolaba ( near Bombay ) probably around the 2nd century CE.

Governor Phillip in a dispatch of 1790 reported: "... About the north-west part of this harbour there is a tribe which is mentioned as being very powerful, either from their numbers or the abilities of their chief.

Cambodia's chief of state, who has been accused of harboring Communist marauders and otherwise making life miserable for neighboring South Viet Nam and Thailand, insists he would be very unhappy if communism established its power in Southeast Asia.

* Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo arrives in the East and take up an assignment as governor of Asia, with a secret brief from Nero and his chief ministers Seneca and Burrus to return Armenia to the Roman Empire.

His wife, Parysatis, persuades him to appoint his younger son, Cyrus, as satrap ( governor ) of Lydia, Phrygia, and Cappadocia and commander in chief of the Achaemenian forces in Asia Minor in place of Tissaphernes.

* Antipater appoints Antigonus commander in chief of his army in Asia Minor and sends him with Craterus to fight against Eumenes, the satrap of Cappadocia and a supporter of Perdiccas.

In 2011, The New York Times ranked Fudan University as the 34th universities in the world according to a survey of chief executives and chairmen of leading companies, and the second in Asia.

In 413 BC he was satrap of Lydia and Caria, and commander in chief of the Persian army in Asia Minor.

He was then sent back to Asia Minor to his old position as general in chief and satrap of Lydia and Caria.

His chief work with this object is The Light of Asia which was translated into various languages such as Hindi ( tr.

" Mahmud also created an appeal system by a criminal to one of the Kazasker ( chief military judge ) of Asia or Europe, and finally to the Sultan himself, if the criminal chose to persist in his appeal.

James Hardesty Critchfield ( January 30, 1917-April 22, 2003 ) was an officer of the US Central Intelligence Agency who rose to become the chief of its Near East and South Asia division.

He previously served with the Voice of America for over 20 years covering Afghanistan, South and Central Asia, and the Middle East, including assignments as Director of the Afghan Radio Network Project and chief of the Pashto and Persian services.

Controlling both the land ( the Silk Road ) and sea trade routes between South Asia and Rome seems to have been one of Kanishka's chief imperial goals.

Kushks ( Persian, Kushk, " pavilion ", " kiosk "), which comprise the chief remains of Abbasid Merv, are a building type unique to Central Asia during this period.

* Steven L. Herman, South Asia bureau chief and a Radio / TV Correspondent for the Voice of America.

Its ' most famous representatives were the Timurids ( hence, they were the chief tribe of the Timurid Empire who ruled much of Central Asia, Iran, and South Asia in the Middle Ages ).

Zhang Shuting, chief designer of the emergency and rescue system, has said that emergency landing sites have been identified in Australia, Southwest Asia, North Africa, Western Europe, the United States and South America.

Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, the Supreme Allied Commander, South East Asia Command ( SEAC ), had need of a new chief of staff owing to the poor health of Lieutenant-General Henry Royds Pownall.

The Dutch, or Common Hyacinth of house and garden culture ( H. orientalis, native to southwest Asia ) was so popular in the 18th century that over 2, 000 cultivars were cultivated in the Netherlands, its chief commercial producer.

Christopher Van Hollen Senior, is listed as a director at the American Institute for Islamic Affairs http :// www. nndb. com / people / 478 / 000121115 /, http :// www. nndb. com / people / 478 / 000121113 / ; and his mother worked in the Central Intelligence Agency and the State Department, where she served as chief of the intelligence bureau for South Asia.

Then he joined the Associated Press, serving in Asia and Africa before being assigned to Lebanon as the chief Mideast correspondent in 1983.

He is the former chairman and chief executive of News Corp., Europe and Asia, where he oversaw assets such as News International ( British newspapers ), publisher of The News of the World newspaper, SKY Italia ( satellite television in Italy ), Sky Deutschland, and STAR TV ( satellite television in Asia ).

He served three tours of duty in the Middle East as an agency station chief, headed the Afghan Task Force ( 1987-89 ), and was chief of the Near East and South Asia Division.