Assertion: malacca | /r/HasProperty | situated on main trade route
Facets:
value: to china
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: to japan
type: LOCATION
Source sentences:
text: Malacca was too important for the VOC strategies, as the city was situated on the main trade route to the Far East (Spices islands, China and Japan) and was a formidable strategic outpost.