Due to the strategic location of the site it was fortified from very early. In the 8th and 7th century BC the site of Amphipolis was ruled by Illyrian tribes.

Due to its strategic location at the mouth of the Bab el Mandeb gateway to the Red Sea and the Suez Canal, Djibouti also hosts various foreign military bases.

Due to its strategic location, the Prussian authorities intended to make Poznań into a fortress city, building a ring of defensive fortifications around it.

Due to its strategic significance, Yerevan was constantly fought over, and passed back and forth, between the dominion of Persia and the Ottomans.

Due to its strategic position in the Mediterranean Sea, Alghero was built around a fortified port, founded around 1102 by the Genoese Doria family.

Due to this commercial growth and strategic commercial position, Ommen eventually joined the prosperous Hanseatic League-although most of its trade was not directly with the Baltic Sea region, but with fellow Hanseatic cities Zwolle, Kampen, Zutphen and especially Deventer, of which it was a subsidiary city.

Due to its strategic location on the border between the County of Holland and the Bishopric of Utrecht, various wars have been fought in and around Woerden by the various lords and ladies of these realms.

Due to these features, the city was one of the strategic points held by the Dutch during their revolt in the Eighty Years War.

Due to its strategic position on the rail line, the commercial center thrived in spite of the absence of a road.

Due to its advantageous proximity to the entrance to the Baltic Sea, Frederikshavn has historically been a naval base of some strategic importance.

Due in part to the fact that Austrian Corps on other sectors of the battlefield failed to attack at the same time, Rosenberg was forced to draw his troop back to their initial positions, occupying the plateau and the strategic village of Markgrafneusiedl, situated just below the escarpment.

Due to its strategic position, Brigg was fortified by Royalist forces during the civil war.

Due to the large scale of the operations associated with invasions, they are usually strategic in planning and execution.

Due to the city's strategic geographic position and the abundance of water from nearby springs, Neapolis prospered, accumulating extensive territory, including the former Judean toparchy of Acraba.

Due to a very low level of interactions between U. S. commercial fisheries and ringed seals, the Alaska stock of ringed seals is not considered a strategic stock.

Due to its strategic location at the entrance to Tokyo Bay, the Shogunate established the post of Uraga Bugyō in 1720, and all shipping into the bay was required to stop for inspection.

Due to its strategic location in one of the most populous areas in the world ( nearly 100 million people in Henan alone ) and in China's railway, road and aviation transport networks, Zhengzhou is increasingly attracting domestic and international investment as well as migrants from other areas, transforming the city into one of the largest economic centers in China.

Due to its strategic positioning between all three warring factions during the Three Kingdoms era, many battles were fought in Jing Province over the course of the various campaigns and battles fought between the states of Shu, Wei and Wu in years to come.

Due to its strategic location between the northern and southern parts of the West Bank, Palestinians see this as a threat to the territorial continuity of a future Palestinian state.

Due to its strategic location and wide beaches, it was also one of the targets for the planned invasion of Japan during the final stages of World War II.

Due to insufficient forces, Poland's 200-mile-long front was manned by a thin line of 120, 000 troops backed by some 460 artillery pieces with no strategic reserves.

Due to its strategic location, the Taliban insurgents often try to position themselves in the area for a possible take over but NATO-led forces have pushed them away in recent years.

Due to its strategic location at the entrance of Edo Bay, Uraga has often been the first point of contact between visiting foreign ships and Japan.

Due to its strategic location at the foot of several alpine passes, the area around Meiringen was settled at least in the Early Middle Ages.

Due to its location in the European Plains, Berlin is influenced by a temperate seasonal climate.

: Due to the rising cost of computer-generated special effects, shooting on location, and A-list talent, major motion picture budgets continue to set new records each decade.

Due to its location and geographical features, several transport corridors cross Hungary.

Due to its geographical location, transit services are highly-developed, along with timber and wood-processing, agriculture and food products, and manufacturing of machinery and electronic devices.

Due to its location in a steep-sided valley, the Italian town of Viganella gets no direct sunlight for seven weeks each winter.

Due to their location in the tropics, this elevation is high enough to reach the temperate climate line in the tropics thereby giving the highlands, mountains and the plateau regions standing above this height, a cool mountain climate.

Due to difficulties in accessing the capital, San Marino City ( which has a mountain-top location ), the terminus station was to be located at the village of Valdragone.

Due to Seneca Lake's unique macroclimate it is home to over 50 wineries, many of them farm wineries and is the location of the Seneca Lake AVA.

Due to its location, the Strait is commonly used for illegal immigration from Africa to Europe.

Due to the contemporary Brutalist architecture of the Burnaby Mountain campus, many buildings, including the WAC Bennet Library and Academic Quadrangle have been used for location shots in a variety of films and television programmes over the years.

Due to its superior location, Ayutthaya quickly became powerful, politically and economically.

Due to the favorable climate of the location, people lived there about 50, 000 years ago during the last glacial period, as burial sites show from this era.

Due to its Eurocentric rules, the high fees, its location remote from the lands in question, and unfair practices by many Pākehā land agents, its main effect was to directly or indirectly separate Māori from their land.

Due to its geographic location, Molde experiences frequent snowfalls in winter, but this snow is usually wet as the winters are usually mild.

Due to its location, Turku is a notable commercial and passenger seaport with over three million passengers travelling through the Port of Turku each year to Stockholm and Mariehamn.

Due to Montreux's location in the Alps, and as Lake Geneva is a mountain lake, Montreux has an alpine climate.

Due to its location in the northwestern portion of the Upper Peninsula, Houghton is isolated from the state's most populous areas.

Due to financial hardship, the Mackintoshes moved in 1923 to Port-Vendres, a Mediterranean coastal town in southern France with a warm climate that was a comparably cheaper location in which to live.

Due to Taiwan's location in the Pacific Ocean, it is affected by the Pacific typhoon season, which occurs between June and October.

Due to its location along the Alabama River and extensive rail connections, Montgomery has and continues to be a regional distribution hub for a wide range of industries.

Due to its location, Brest is regarded as the first French port that can be accessed from the Americas.