Definition of "transoceanic" [transoceanic]

• Situated beyond or on the other side of the ocean. (adjective)
• Spanning or crossing the ocean. (adjective)

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• "And on top of that, there was later archaeological evidence that suggested people living and working along the Swahili Coast had been persistent agents in transoceanic networks connecting Africa with contemporaneous European and Asian societies, economies, and politics since as early as the late first millennium CE."
• "They corroborate what people have long suspected, based on such early written sources as Periplus of Maris Erythraei; that is, that East African inhabitants have engaged in transoceanic exchanges since at least, and most likely before, the start of the first millennium CE."
• "Note 1: I believe that this approach would serve us well in transoceanic diasporic studies, as they too commonly are steeped in homogenous ideas about African religious and intellectual histories. back"