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
As the Zollverein policy became accepted throughout Germany, previous privileges were gradually lessened, and since 1888 only Hamburg remains a free port.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 1 "Franciscans" to "French Language" by Various
