'maritime city' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You could use it to refer to any city located near the coast or on the sea, such as New York or Seattle. For example, "New York is one of the most iconic maritime cities in the U.S."
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.
Genoa, once a powerful maritime city, adopted the St George's Cross as its flag and St George as its patron saint during the Crusades.
Drake set sail from it in 1577 to circumnavigate the globe and it played a crucial role in defending the maritime city from French and Spanish invasions.
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.
Godfrey arranged truces with the Muslim maritime cities of Ascalon, Caesarea, and Acre and successfully beat off an Egyptian attack.
Meanwhile, the less-visited northern region, with its national park, maritime cities and vineyards, makes ideal touring country.
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.
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.
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.
