Sea Ports
Connected Sites
| Site | Rationale | Link |
| Ahwar of Southern Iraq | Ur was a port at the Persian Gulf | |
| Al Zubarah | "The port was the Gulf’s most important trading hub" (AB ev) | |
| Al-Ahsa Oasis | Al Uquair Port | |
| Amsterdam Canal Ring | ||
| Angra do Heroismo | ||
| Antigua Naval Dockyard | ||
| Aquileia | ||
| Birka and Hovgarden | Birka | |
| Bordeaux | ||
| Bridgetown | ||
| Brugge | ||
| Bryggen | ||
| Byblos | ||
| Campeche | ||
| Cartagena | ||
| Carthage | ||
| Cidade Velha | ||
| Cienfuegos | ||
| Colonia del Sacramento | ||
| Corfu | ||
| Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape | Port of Hayle and Portreath | |
| Coro and its Port | ||
| Costiera Amalfitana | Amalfi port | |
| Delos | "an extremely important cosmopolitan Mediterranean port that began to prosper since 314 BC, reaching outstanding levels during the 2nd and 1st centuries BC." (OUV) | |
| Derbent | At the Caspian Sea | |
| Dubrovnik | Port of Ragusa | |
| Ephesus | "Now located several kilometres inland from the Aegean coast of Turkey, Ephesus was a thriving harbour city in the Roman period," (AB eval) | |
| Fortifications of Vauban | Saint-Martin-de-Ré | |
| Fortress of Suomenlinna | The fort was conceived to defend the nearby port of Helsinki | |
| French Austral Lands and Seas | Port-aux-Français | |
| Grand-Bassam | important in colonial times | |
| Gulf of Porto | ||
| Hedeby and Danevirke | Hedeby: port at the inlet of the Schlei | |
| Historic Jeddah | "Jeddah thus began to develop as a prosperous Red Sea port." (AB ev) | |
| Hoi An | ||
| Island of Gorée | ||
| Island of Mozambique | ||
| Iwami Ginzan Silver Mine | Port for silver mines | |
| Karlskrona | ||
| Kasbah of Algiers | On the Mediterranean Sea. | |
| Kotor | ||
| Lamu Old Town | ||
| Land of Frankincense | From the UNESCO site description "......and the affiliated ports of Khor Rori and Al-Baleed " From AB "The port of Sumhuram (Smhrm ? ?His Name is Great?) was founded at the end of the 1st century BCE. Inscriptions record that it was established by LL?ad Yalut to control the trade in Dhofar incense. It is identified as the Moscha of classical geographical texts, where Indian seamen who had brought cotton cloth, corn, and oil in exchange for incense overwintered, waiting for the favourable monsoon winds to take them home." | |
| Leptis Magna | ||
| Levuka | ||
| Lübeck | ||
| Macao | ||
| Medina of Sousse | "was an important commercial and military port during the Aghlabid period (800–909)" (Official description) | |
| Melaka and George Town | Melaka, important port of Malacca Strait | |
| Naples | ||
| Nice | Port Lympia | |
| Odesa | ||
| Old City of Acre | ||
| Old Havana | ||
| Old Rauma | ||
| Ombilin Coal Mining Heritage of Sawahlunto | Port of Teluk Bayur (formerly Emmahaven) | |
| Oporto | ||
| Paphos | ||
| Paraty and Ilha Grande | archaeological complex of Paraty-Mirim, which played an important role in the 17th century as a port for the exchange and trade of goods and slaves.(AB ev) | |
| Pico Island | ||
| Portobelo-San Lorenzo | Portobelo | |
| Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands | Cinque Terre for the fisherman ports of Vanezza, Riormaggiore, Manarola and Monterossa | |
| Pythagoreion and Heraion of Samos | Pythagoreion | |
| Qal'at al-Bahrain | ||
| Qalhat | ||
| Quanzhou | "(...) the spectacular rise and prosperity of Quanzhou as a maritime hub of the East and South-east Asia trade network during the 10th – 14th centuries AD" (Official description) – "the flourishing of Quanzhou as a successful port" (AB Ev) | |
| Red Bay Basque Whaling Station | ||
| Riga | "founded as a port town in 1201" (OUV) | |
| Ruins of Kilwa Kisiwani and Songo Mnara | ||
| Salvador de Bahia | "The city grew quickly, becoming Brazil’s main seaport and an important centre of the sugar industry and the slave trade." (OUV) | |
| San Pedro de la Roca Castle | built to protect the important port of Santiago | |
| Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution | Miike Coal Mine & Port, Misumi West Port | |
| Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District | The Speicherstadt district is centrally located in the Port of Hamburg. (nom file) | |
| Split | ||
| St. Petersburg | ||
| Stari Grad Plain | ||
| Stralsund and Wismar | Stralsund | |
| Syracuse | "Ortygia, originally a peninsula, is positioned from North to South dividing two strips of sea and thus forming two natural ports. One to the NE called "Porto Piccolo" (Small Port) and the bigger one to the West, which is appropriately called 'Porto Grande' (Big Port)." (Nomination file, p. 53) | |
| Tauric Chersonese | major commercial port for trade in the Northern Black Sea area | |
| The Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales | Port Penryn and Porthmadog | |
| Tipasa | ||
| Trans-Iranian Railway | New ports were built at Bandar Shah (now Bandar Torkaman) and Bandar Shapiro (now Bandar-e Khomeini) as part of the construction. | |
| Tyre | ||
| Valparaiso | ||
| Venice and its Lagoon | ||
| Vigan | Historically played a major role in the commercial sea trade, "The Mestizo river was central to the development of the town in the 16th-19th centuries: large sea-going vessels could berth in the delta and small craft communicated with the interior." (AB ev) | |
| Visby | ||
| Walled City of Baku | ||
| Willemstad | Owing to its location near the Venezuelan oilfields, its political stability and its natural deep water harbour, Willemstad became the site of an important seaport and refinery. Willemstad's harbour is one of the largest oil handling ports in the Caribbean. (wiki) |
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