Sea Ports

"was an important commercial and military port during the Aghlabid period (800–909)" (Official description)

Stralsund

"founded as a port town in 1201" (OUV)

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."

Amalfi port

Cinque Terre for the fisherman ports of Vanezza, Riormaggiore, Manarola and Monterossa

major commercial port for trade in the Northern Black Sea area

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)

"an extremely important cosmopolitan Mediterranean port that began to prosper since 314 BC, reaching outstanding levels during the 2nd and 1st centuries BC." (OUV)

"The city grew quickly, becoming Brazil’s main seaport and an important centre of the sugar industry and the slave trade." (OUV)

Because of its strategic location, Mombasa grew in importance over the centuries and soon became a major trading port ... Fort Jesus, Mombasa, was erected .. to protect its port" (AB ev)

"the bay, which constitutes a naturally sheltered port" (AB ev)

Port for silver mines

"(...) 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)

New ports were built at Bandar Shah (now Bandar Torkaman) and Bandar Shapiro (now Bandar-e Khomeini) as part of the construction.

Port-aux-Français

The fort was conceived to defend the nearby port of Helsinki

"Now located several kilometres inland from the Aegean coast of Turkey, Ephesus was a thriving harbour city in the Roman period," (AB eval)

Port of Ragusa

At the Caspian Sea

Birka

"The port was the Gulf’s most important trading hub" (AB ev)

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)

Port Penryn and Porthmadog

"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)

The Speicherstadt district is centrally located in the Port of Hamburg. (nom file)

built to protect the important port of Santiago

Pythagoreion

Portobelo

Port of Teluk Bayur (formerly Emmahaven)

Port Lympia

On the Mediterranean Sea.

"Jeddah thus began to develop as a prosperous Red Sea port." (AB ev)

Hedeby: port at the inlet of the Schlei

important in colonial times

Saint-Martin-de-Ré

Port of Hayle and Portreath

Al Uquair Port

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)

Melaka, important port of Malacca Strait

Ur was a port at the Persian Gulf

Miike Coal Mine & Port, Misumi West Port