In 1099, a Byzantine fleet of 10 ships were sent to assist the Crusaders in capturing Laodicea and other coastal towns as far as Tripoli.

The village nestles between the bigger coastal towns of Burntisland to the east and Dalgety Bay to the west.

Most of the population lives in coastal cities, although the hinterland is occupied at most in small towns and villages along the rivers.

Connecticut's rural areas and small towns in the northeast and northwest corners of the state contrast sharply with its industrial cities, located along the coastal highways from the New York border to New London, then northward up the Connecticut River to Hartford.

In addition to the archaeological interest, Delphi attracts tourists visiting the Parnassus Ski Center and the popular coastal towns of the region.

There are traditional Greek-speaking settlements in the neighbouring countries of Albania, Bulgaria and Turkey, as well as in several countries in the Black Sea area such as Ukraine, Russia, Romania, Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, and around the Mediterranean Sea, Southern Italy, Israel, Egypt, Lebanon and ancient coastal towns along the Levant.

By 1973 the PAIGC controlled most of the interior of the country, while the coastal and estuary towns, including the main populational and economic centres remained under Portuguese control.

From January onwards, operations became increasingly militarized, with the intervention of a number of Arab Liberation Army regiments inside Palestine, each active in a variety of distinct sectors around the different coastal towns.

Like many coastal towns, the population of Hastings grew significantly as a result of the construction of railway links and the fashionable growth of seaside holidays during the Victorian era.

The Imperial Navy's tasks were then to prevent any invasion force from landing and to protect coastal towns from possible bombardment.

Then the drugs were transported to coastal towns in Tamil Nadu such as Tuticorin, Rameswaram, Ramanathapuram, Nagapattinam and Kochi, in Kerala State.

Historically, the country's contacts with the rest of the world were by sea, which not only provided access to foreign lands but also linked the coastal towns of Oman.

Once the city of Bursa was captured, Orhan sent cavalry troops towards Bosphorus, capturing Byzantine coastal towns of Marmara.

The system was expanded to include all the western coastal towns, providing a link which would allow passengers to travel between the northern and southern parts of the island in less than a day for the first time in its history.

Before its downfall, the Puerto Rico railroad system operated in all major cities, with tracks and stations along most of the coastal towns and direct lines to all major sugar refineries.

Though they were eventually repulsed by Ramses III, he finally resettled them, according to the theory, to rebuild the coastal towns in Canaan.

Less than 1 % of the total area is suitable for cultivation, and in the early 1990s, population distribution varied greatly among the towns of the eastern and western coastal areas, the densely populated interior oases, and the vast, almost empty deserts.

In December 1925, led by the charismatic leader Hersi Boqor, son of Boqor Osman, the sultanate forces drove the Italians out of Hurdia and Hafun, two strategic coastal towns.

In retaliation the Bernica and other warships were called on to bombard all main coastal towns of the Majeerteen.

With their arrival at the closing of 1926, the Italians began to move into the interior where they had not been able to venture since their first seizure of the coastal towns.

To demoralise the resistance, ships were ordered to target and bombard the sultanate's coastal towns and villages.

From the 11th to the 19th century, North African Barbary Pirates engaged in Razzias, raids on European coastal towns, to capture Christian slaves to sell at slave markets in places such as Algeria and Morocco.

Alternatively, in coastal towns cheap fish such as sardines ( sardalya ) or hamsi ( anchovies ) are widely available, as well as many others with seasonal availability.

Unguja, the larger island, offered a protected and defensible harbor, so although the archipelago offered few products of value, the Persians settled at what became Zanzibar City (" Stone Town ") as a convenient point from which to trade with East African coastal towns.

* November 26 – A 2-day blizzard known as the Portland Gale piles snow in Boston, Massachusetts, and severely impacts the Massachusetts fishing industry and several coastal New England towns.

Flat or gently sloping land is rare and largely confined to the deltas of the Kızıl River, the coastal plains of Çukurova and the valley floors of the Gediz River and the Büyük Menderes River as well as some interior high plains in Anatolia, mainly around Tuz Gölü ( Salt Lake ) and the Konya Basin ( Konya Ovasi ).

He extended Roman territory to the sea, founding the port of Ostia, establishing salt-works around the port, and taking the Silva Maesia, an area of coastal forest north of the Tiber, from the Veientes.

In 1167, Absalon was granted the land around the city of " Havn " (), and built there a castle in the coastal defense against the Wends.

The Cabot Trail is a scenic road circuit around and over the Cape Breton Highlands with spectacular coastal vistas ; over 400, 000 visitors drive the Cabot Trail each summer and fall.

The coastal economy revolved around shipping and trade.

In this theory, there was a coastal dispersal of modern humans from the Horn of Africa around 70, 000 years ago.

West Flemish is spoken by around 1. 05 million people in West Flanders ( in Belgium ), 90, 000 in the neighbouring Dutch coastal district of Zeelandic Flanders, and approximately 20, 000 in the northern part of the French département of Nord where it is classified, as a recognized dialect of Dutch, as one of the languages of France.

Seafood traditionally was restricted to the northern coastal areas, except for pickled herring, often served as Rollmops ( a pickled herring fillet rolled into a cylindrical shape around a piece of pickled gherkin or onion ) or Brathering ( fried, marinated herring ).

The territory of what is now Albania was invaded by Serbia in the north and Greece in the south, restricting the country to only a patch of land around the southern coastal city of Vlora.

The coastal periphery was the home to some of the world's earliest known civilizations, with each of the three regions developing early civilizations around fertile river valleys.

Carlow, then larger than today, and extending to and including coastal Arklow, probably dates from around 1306.

Extensive coastal shipping, especially around the Seto Inland Sea ( Seto Naikai ), compensates for the lack of navigable rivers.

First established in 1995, the Looe VCMA covers nearly 5 km of coastline and aims to protect the coastal and marine wildlife around Looe.

To the north, the foreshore used to be around Government Avenue in the 1920s but it shifted to a new road, King Faisal Road, in the early 1930s which became the coastal road.

In the 11th – 13th century, the territory was inhabited by the Old Prussians also called Baltic Prussians, a Baltic ethnic group that inhabited Prussia in the lands of Pomesania, Pogesania, Galindia, Bartia, and Sudovia, and in the lands of the southeastern coastal region of the Baltic Sea around the Vistula Lagoon and the Curonian Lagoon.

In the financial year 2003 / 2004 coastal cargo in New Zealand totalled around 8. 6 million tonnes, of which 85 % was still carried by local, and 15 % by overseas shipping.

Over of rainfall is received in the coastal region of Nigeria around the Niger delta area.

The coastal communities and islands, including Block Island, offer more colonial New England fare than the more recent immigrant-influenced varieties found around the Providence area.

The Germans would have needed to immediately capture a port, an unlikely circumstance considering the strength of the British coastal defences around the south-eastern harbours at that time.

The eastern corner of Thailand corresponds to coastal Peru around Nazca, and the south of Laos is antipodal to the coastal area just south of that.

Seafood is an important source of protein in many diets around the world, especially in coastal areas.

The most important lowlands are the Han River plain around Seoul, the Pyeongtaek coastal plain southwest of Seoul, the Geum River basin, the Nakdong River basin, and the Yeongsan and the Honam plains in the southwest.