This was partly due to the ambitions of Italian maritime states and the aggression of the Turcomans and other city Turks, but the empire was also weakened by civil wars.

During these years the Byzantine Empire was so weak that commercial supremacy in the surrounding seas around it became a bone of contention for the Italian maritime commercial city states.

City of Saint John ( French: Ville de Saint John ), or commonly Saint John, is the largest city in the province of New Brunswick, and the second largest in the maritime provinces after Halifax.

The consequences of this revolt are threefold: the city becomes de facto independent from the Almohads, but its reliance on the Italian maritime powers increases and the trans-Saharan trade routes begin to shift eastward due to the local turmoil.

The presence of the caricatore improved the fortunes of the city, turning it into one of the major ports of Sicily and strengthening its commercial relationships with the maritime republics of Genoa, Pisa, and Venice as well as the major Mediterranean ports ( Marseille, Barcelona, etc.

The city alternated years of crisis, featuring economic exploitation, the decrease of the maritime trade, made unsafe by the daily raids of Saracens pirates, political corruption of its rulers, the sacking of Sassari in 1527 by the French, and two plagues in 1528 and 1652, with periods of cultural and economic prosperity.

The maritime strength of Nice now rapidly increased until it was able to cope with the Barbary pirates ; the fortifications were largely extended and the roads to the city improved.

In addition, the city also has a maritime museum, a university museum, a comics museum, a graphical museum and a tobacco museum.

Its position on San Francisco Bay across from the Golden Gate means that the Northern part of the city can experience cooling maritime fog.

The city is host to several events to celebrate its long maritime history.

With coastlines on the west, south and east, Newport is a maritime city.

The French occupation of Algeria in the 19th century ended the fear of Maghrebi attacks in Majorca, which favoured the expansion of new maritime lines, and consequently, the economic growth of the city, which suffered a demographic increase, with the birth of new nucleus of population.

He received Neleus, who had been driven out of Iolcus by Pelias, and assigned to him a tract of land in the maritime part of Messenia, where the main city was Pylos ; in the same fashion he welcomed the exiled Lycus, son of Pandion, who revealed the rites of Demeter to Aphareus and his family.

A maritime city near the mouth of the river Ubus, it became a Roman colonia which prospered and became a major city in Roman Africa.

" This canal system flowed throughout the city connecting it with the maritime trade on the ancient Euphrates River as well as the surrounding agricultural belt.

The main activities of the city were in the areas of maritime commerce and trade, especially with England, the Netherlands and Spain.

Today, the city gives little hint of its former maritime importance.

In an October 2010 report titled Saving Our Vanishing Heritage, Global Heritage Fund listed Famagusta, a " maritime ancient city of crusader kings ", among the 12 sites most " On the Verge " of irreparable loss and destruction, citing insufficient management and development pressures.

The vessel's route along Samos, Kos, Rhodes, the Asia Minor coastline and then Kyrenia, demonstrates the town's close maritime relations with other city kingdoms in the eastern Mediterranean.

As with all of the UK, Chelmsford has a maritime climate type, being to the southeast of England, the city enjoys a warmer climate than most of the United Kingdom and often experiences amongst the warmest summers in Britain ; It is also one of the drier areas in the country.

Aden became the principal maritime port of the dynasty in the Indian Ocean and the principal city of Yemen, although the official capital of Ayyubid Yemen was Ta ' izz.

In 1719, 823 people called this maritime city their home.

Sadyattes began a twelve year war with the Ionian Greek maritime city of Miletus that was continued by his son Alyattes II.

In most maritime traditions ships have individual names, and modern ships may belong to a ship class often named after its first ship.

He encouraged maritime trade by negotiating a commercial treaty with England ( 1294 ) and forming a royal navy ( 1317 ) under the command of a Genoese admiral named Emanuele Pessagno ( Manuel Pessanha ).

It was named in 1787 by the maritime fur trader Charles William Barkley, captain of the Imperial Eagle, for Juan de Fuca, the Greek navigator who sailed in a Spanish expedition in 1592 to seek the fabled Strait of Anián.

* Land-based maritime patrol aircraft were named for naval explorers-Avro Anson ( George Anson, 1st Baron Anson ), Lockheed Hudson ( Henry Hudson ), Avro Shackleton ( Ernest Shackleton ), Bristol Beaufort ( Francis Beaufort ).

They are named the of Oléron since the island was the site of the maritime court associated with the most powerful seamen's guild of the Atlantic.

" As Napoleon prepared for the invasion of Russia, he named Villaret governor of Venice in the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy, in April 1811 ; there he was particularly occupied with maritime affairs.

Unique in ITV and reflecting the area's maritime history the company converted a Second World War motor torpedo boat into a floating outside broadcasting unit named Southerner.

However, in maintaining the maritime link, all Royal Navy air stations are additionally named in the same manner as the Navy's ships-in Yeoviltons ' instance, it is also called HMS Heron.

( Palembang football club ) were also all named to honor this ancient maritime empire.

The United States Revenue Cutter Service, was established as the Revenue-Marine, and so named for over one hundred years, by then-Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton in 1790, to serve as an armed maritime law enforcement service.

* the SS President Roosevelt, named after Theodore Roosevelt, involved in a 1926 maritime disaster.

The first botanical names of the plant were assigned in 1696 by Hans Sloane, who called it Prunus maritima racemosa, " maritime grape-cluster Prunus ", and Leonard Plukenet, who named it Uvifera littorea, " grape-bearer of the shore ", both of which names reflect the European concept of " sea-grape ", expressed in a number of languages by the explorers of the times.

Malaysia and Singapore have established what they have named the Joint Technical Committee to delimit the maritime boundary in the area around Pedra Branca and Middle Rocks, and to determine the ownership of South Ledge.

One of these, founded in 1772 as the Societé de Commerce maritime, exists today as a foundation named the Preußische Seehandlung ( roughly translated as " Prussian Maritime Enterprise ").

* Hanseatic League, a region comprising much of maritime Germany, after which Hansa Records was named

The Coast Guard has named the first cutter of the Legend-class maritime security cutters the in honor of their former Commandant.

Roman ships were commonly named after gods ( Mars, Iuppiter, Minerva, Isis ), mythological heroes ( Hercules ), geographical maritime features such as Rhenus or Oceanus, concepts such as Harmony, Peace, Loyalty, Victory ( Concordia, Pax, Fides, Victoria ) or after important events ( Dacicus for the Trajan's Dacian Wars or Salamina for the Battle of Salamis ).

The first ship built under the company's new name Howaldtswerke was a small steamer, named Vorwärts, built in 1865. Business expanded rapidly as Germany rose to a maritime power, and by the turn of the century some 390 ships had been completed.

In 1854 Lesseps obtained from the viceroy Muhammad Sa ' id the firman for the canal concession on behalf of the Compagnie universelle du canal maritime de Suez, and Linant was named chief engineer, in which capacity he was soon assisted by the French hydraulics engineer Mougel, for Linant continued in charge of public works, as director general ( 1862 ), as Minister of Public Works ( 1869 ) and member of the viceroy's council.

Baal-zephon ( בעל צפון Hebrew ) is a Hebrew name which means ' lord of the north ', and refers both to a god the Hellenes knew as Zeus Kasios, the god of Mount Aqraa on the Syrian shore who was associated with thunderbolts, the sea and a protector of maritime trade, and to a place named in the Book of Exodus as being near Migdol and Pi-hahiroth where the Hebrews ( Israelites ) were said to have made their Passage of the Red Sea following their exodus from Egypt.

The Escouade de contre-terrorisme et de libération d ’ otages ( ECTLO, “ counter-terrorist and hostages rescue squad ”), formerly named Groupe de combat en milieu clos ( GCMC, “ close quarters combat group ”), is a special operations group of the French Navy, specialised in maritime anti-terrorism.