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		Definition of trade route in English: trade routenoun A long-distance route along which commercial goods are transported.  a system of ancient trade routes linking East and West Asia  Dutch ships explored new trade routes and brought back a great variety of commodities  Example sentencesExamples -  Lodges provided food and shelter along the trade routes.
 -  The fertile land of Syria lies at the crossroads of great trade routes between the East and West.
 -  You can lose livestock or fall short on harvest, but developing trade routes can help you survive these hardships.
 -  We need to build castles of security along trade routes that feature security technology equivalent to the moats, drawbridges, and watch towers of that period.
 -  The major trade routes were sea lanes round England.
 -  They aimed to curtail the aggressive territorial expansion and monopolization of the trade routes of the Adriatic Sea.
 -  The clans formed by the kinship networks each had their own oral traditions of origin, typically of migrations along the trade routes from a conventional place of origin.
 -  By the fourteenth century, trade routes to the wealthy salt, gold, ivory, and slave markets in North Africa, Europe, and the Middle East had sprung up across the territory.
 -  Much came through trade routes from East Africa, above all through Swahili traders, who obtained the tusks from the African interior and exported these to Europe and to the East.
 -  Land and sea trade routes brought an abundance of designs in earlier times, suggesting Ottoman Turkish, Andalusian, Balkan, and Algerian influences.
 
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