Sentence examples for maritime cities from inspiring English sources
Godfrey arranged truces with the Muslim maritime cities of Ascalon, Caesarea, and Acre and successfully beat off an Egyptian attack.
The Crusade offered new opportunities for the maritime cities of northern Italy, which for some time had been opposing Muslim power in Sardinia, Corsica, and Sicily.
The 13th century witnessed an enormous increase in prosperity not only in the maritime cities but also in the growing centres of the cloth industry, especially the woolen textile industry in Tuscany.
Later the factory might move to Mexico; it is now probably in China.The ubiquitous box changed the heart of many of the world's great maritime cities. Mr Levinson details the battle for New York's ports and the longshoremen's struggles to preserve their jobs.
Tyre and Sidon, maritime cities of Phoenicia (modern Lebanon), had long exploited their coastal situation, not only to remain independent of the landward empires but also to push across the sea, even beyond the Straits of Gibraltar, in quest of trade.
Harm came anyway, as it did to much of the Mediterranean world, around 1200 B.C. with the arrival of mysterious, sea-based invaders, who conquered most of the great maritime cities, interrupting trade and easy cultural exchange, and bringing on a dark age, a depression.
New York City has to come to terms with the fact that it's an island and a maritime city above everything else".
Meanwhile, a recent crop of design-heavy hotels, restaurants and boutiques has turned the maritime city into one of Northern Europe's hippest leisure hangouts.
The centre has also produced an international comparison of Glasgow with Gothenburg in Sweden, another industrial maritime city, which is summarised in a short film.
The city council of this maritime city wants to create a shiny new heritage museum filled with plastic ships' prows and guides dressed up as olde-worlde dockside prostitutes.
With the cold war a fading memory and its dockyards shrinking at speed, in the early part of the decade, this once-great maritime city registered an unemployment rate of over 14%, and its neighbourhoods became mired in decline.
