In England, the seat of government being in the greatest mercantile city in the world, the merchants are generally the people who advance money to government.

Many of them became farmers and traders and established York as a leading mercantile city.

Before us lay the gray expanse of water, and out upon it moved the busy shipping of the great mercantile city.

Dallas grew up as a mercantile city that, paradoxically enough, clearly used to look down its nose at the cowtown to the West.

Italy's fashion capital is also Italy's most frenetic, mercantile city.

The mercantile city of Novgorod sent its pioneering traders to the region and lay claim to the area until the middle of the 15th century.

Under him, Pavia became a mercantile city.

Well, this was a mercantile city.

Like most great modern libraries, that ancient one also served as a center for writers, the intellectual heart of a democratized, mercantile city.

This was a prestigious post in the mercantile city in the Electorate of Saxony, which he held for 27 years until his death.