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Old City of Acre
Acre is a historic port city that has been inhabited since the Phoenician period. The present city is an Ottoman fortified town built in the 18th and 19th centuries, with typical urban components such as a castle, mosque, khan and baths. The remains of the Crusader City, built between 1104 and 1291, are almost intact, and both above and below today's streets, show the layout and structure of the medieval capital of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem.
Historic Fortified Town of Campeche
Campeche is a typical port city in the New World during the Spanish colonial period. The historic center retains the outer walls and fortification system designed to defend this Caribbean port from sea attacks.
Seventeenth-Century Canal Ring Area of Amsterdam inside the Singelgracht
The historic urban complex of Amsterdam's canal district was a project for a new "port city" built in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. It included a network of canals to the west and south of the historic old town and the medieval port surrounding the old town, while relocating the city's defensive border, the Singel, inland. It was a long-term plan that involved extending the city by draining marshland, using a system of canals in concentric arcs, and filling in the spaces in between. These spaces allowed the development of a homogeneous urban complex with gabled houses and numerous monuments. This urban extension was the largest and most homogeneous of its time. It was a model for large-scale town planning and was a reference worldwide until the 19th century.
Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City
Liverpool's historic centre and six areas of the docklands bear witness to the development of one of the world's major trading centres in the 18th and 19th centuries. Liverpool played a major role in the development of the British Empire and became a major port for large-scale movements of people, such as slaves and immigrants from northern Europe to the United States. Liverpool was a pioneer in the development of modern dock technology, transport systems and port management. The listed site includes a number of important commercial, civic and public buildings, including St George's Plateau.
Qal’at al-Bahrain – Ancient Harbour and Capital of Dilmun
Qal'at al-Bahrain is a typical mound, i.e. an artificial mound formed by several successive layers of human habitation. The 300 x 600 m mound stratigraphy testifies to the continuous human presence from 2300 BC to the 16th century AD. About 25% of the site has been excavated and different types of buildings have been found: residential, public, commercial, religious and military. They testify to the importance of the site as a trading port in past centuries. On top of the 12-meter-high mound there is an impressive Portuguese fortress, which gave the whole site its name of qal'a (fortress). The site was the capital of Dilmun, one of the most important ancient civilizations in the region. The richest remains of this civilization, which until now was known only from written records of the Sumerians, are preserved here.
Levuka Historical Port Town
The town, with its low-slung buildings nestled among coconut and mango trees along the beach, was Fiji's first colonial capital, ceded to Britain in 1874. It developed from the early 19th century as a centre of commercial activity for Americans and Europeans, who built warehouses, shops, port facilities, residences, and religious, educational and social institutions around villages of indigenous South Pacific islanders. It is a rare example of a late colonial port town whose development was influenced by the indigenous community, which consistently outnumbered European settlers. As such, the town is an outstanding example of a late 19th century Pacific port settlement, reflecting the integration of local architectural traditions by the supreme naval power, resulting in a unique landscape.
Ruins of Kilwa Kisiwani and Ruins of Songo Mnara
The remains of two great East African ports admired by early European explorers lie on two small islands off the coast. From the 13th to the 16th centuries, Kilwa's merchants dealt in gold, silver, pearls, perfume, Arab pottery, Persian ceramics, and Chinese porcelain; much of the Indian Ocean trade passed through them.
Ancient City of Qalhat
Located on the east coast of the Sultanate of Oman, the site includes the ancient city of Qalhat, surrounded by inner and outer walls, and the cemeteries outside the walls. The city developed into a major port on the east coast of Arabia during the reign of Prince Hormuz from the 11th to the 15th century AD. The ancient city provides unique archaeological evidence of trade links between the east coast of Arabia, East Africa, India, China and Southeast Asia.
Old Rauma
Rauma, located on the Gulf of Bothnia, is one of Finland's oldest ports. Rauma was built around a Franciscan monastery, where the mid-15th-century Church of the Holy Cross still stands today, an outstanding example of a Nordic timber-framed ancient town. Although it was destroyed by fire in the late 17th century, it still retains its ancient vernacular architectural heritage.
Archaeological Site of Leptis Magna
Leptis Magna was expanded and embellished by Septimius Severus, who was born here and later became Roman emperor. It was one of the most beautiful cities in the Roman Empire, with magnificent public monuments, ports, markets, warehouses, shops and residential areas.
Historic Area of Willemstad, Inner City and Harbour, Curaçao
In 1634, the Dutch established a trading settlement in a natural harbor on the Caribbean island of Curaçao. The town continued to grow over the following centuries. The modern town is made up of several unique historic neighborhoods, and its architecture reflects not only European urban planning concepts, but also the styles of the Dutch as well as the Spanish and Portuguese colonial towns that traded with Willemstad.