| Scholar Voices: Margariti (681 words) |
 | Roxani Margariti in A city and the sea: Maritime trade and urban organization in medieval Aden, focuses on maritime trade and urban organization in medieval Aden (ca. |
| Roxani Margariti first expressed surprise that no comprehensively source-based history of the city had yet been written, although, from the 10th century on, Aden was one of the major entrepots of the India trade. |
| Margariti attributes the enduring long-term success of Aden not to directing traffic through the city or to extracting taxes by force, but to the services that the city had to offer to traders and to the way Aden merchants became major entrepreneurs in the Indian Ocean scene. |
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