free port
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Odesa’s free port status financed its extraordinary architectural flowering in the 1800s and helped build its vibrant multiethnic society.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 21, 2024
It may be that a free port and international status for the town, with Italian sovereignty in cultural questions, would best serve the Allied and European cause, especially during the years of transition.
From The Guardian • May 6, 2020
Other collectors, she added, are starting to move their art to the free port of Luxembourg, where they can store it while the political process unfolds.
From New York Times • Jul. 18, 2015
The crewmen will then berth the vessel to a free port on the underside of the platform.
From BBC • May 24, 2012
About the year 1817 an increased duty was laid on all foreign goods in the Black Sea; but at the same period Odessa was definitively declared to be a free port, without restriction.
From Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. by Hell, Xavier Hommaire de
