Chapter 20
Port-City Interface
20.1Historic Port-City Relations
Due to the lack of transport infrastructure in the past, shipping on rivers and along coast lines was a key element of trade and natural solution for transportation. Consequently, many ports started as small landings at prominent river and coastal locations. The link between rivers and ocean was an important knot already in ancient times, and so it is an obvious consequence that important ports and cities have been built in river estuaries.
The long search for the prominent city of Pi-Ramesses in ancient Egypt is a great example for the port-city relationship. Pi-Ramesses (meaning “House of Ramesses”) was the new capital built by the 19th dynasty Pharaoh Ramesses II (1279–1213 BC; ...
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