Editing Trading post (section)

==Examples==
Major towns in the Hanseatic League were known as ''[[kontor]]s'', a form of trading posts.<ref>{{cite web|title=Hanseatic League |url=https://bbc.co.uk/news/extra/A2MFANtn3Z/hanseatic_league|access-date=2024-01-11|website=BBC News}}</ref>

[[Charax Spasinu]] was a trading post between the Roman and Parthian Empires.<ref>{{cite web|title=Trade between the Romans and the Empires of Asia {{!}} Essay {{!}} The Metropolitan Museum of Art {{!}} Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History|url=https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/silk/hd_silk.htm |access-date=2024-01-11 |website=The Met’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History|language=en}}</ref>

[[Manhattan]] and [[Singapore]] were both established as trading posts, by Dutchman [[Peter Minuit]] and Englishman [[Stamford Raffles]] respectively, and later developed into major settlements.<ref>{{cite journal|author=Matt Soniak|date=October 2, 2012|title=Was Manhattan Really Bought for $24?|url=http://mentalfloss.com/article/12657/was-manhattan-really-bought-24|url-status=dead|journal=Mental Floss|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200212095456/https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/12657/was-manhattan-really-bought-24|archive-date=February 12, 2020|access-date=May 11, 2020}}</ref><ref name="YongRao1995">{{cite book|author1=Mun Cheong Yong|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZdZo5Ui8oS4C&pg=PA3|title=Singapore-India Relations: A Primer|author2=V. V. Bhanoji Rao|publisher=NUS Press|year=1995|isbn=978-9971-69-195-0|page=3}}</ref>

The [[Edmonton|City of Edmonton]], Alberta began as [[Fort Edmonton]] in 1812.<ref>Edmonton House Journals, Correspondence and Reports, 1806-1821 (published by the Historical Society of Alberta), p. 182</ref>

The [[Roman Empire]] was able to control a large amount of land because of its efficient systems for transferring information, goods, and military expeditions across large distances. Goods specifically were vital to maintaining outposts in territories distant from Rome, such as northern Africa and western Asia. Trading posts played a large part in managing these goods, deciding where they were going and when. Goods collected at these trading posts and other parts of the Roman trade system included precious stones, [[fabrics]], [[ivory]], and [[wine]]. There is also evidence that [[cattle]] were traded at the Empúries trading post, established in the 6th century BCE, on the Iberian Peninsula.<ref>Colominas, L., and Edwards, C. J. (2017) Livestock Trade during the Early Roman Period: First Clues from the Trading Post of Empúries (Catalonia). ''Int. J. Osteoarchaeol.'', 27: 167– 179. {{doi|10.1002/oa.2527}}</ref>