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Coptos — by T. Wilfong — last modified Nov 08, 2023 10:08 AM

An ancient settlement on the Nile river (modern Quft/Qift in Egypt) that flourished from pre-dynastic times through late antiquity.

Corycus — by S. Mitchell — last modified Feb 08, 2024 02:07 PM

Corycus was an ancient city in Cilicia Trachaea.

Cossyra (settlement) — by R.J.A. Wilson — last modified Sep 25, 2019 05:52 PM

A harbor settlement on the island of the same name.

Cuccureddus — by Jeffrey Becker — last modified Dec 18, 2023 04:46 PM

A Phoenician port of southeastern Sardinia.

Cumae/Kyme (Campanian) — by N. Purcell — last modified Aug 07, 2023 03:34 PM

An ancient settlement of Campania, Cumae was the first Greek colony established on the Italian mainland in the eighth century BC.

Doublet: Oppidum Bochoritanum — by Jeffrey Becker — last modified Apr 07, 2022 02:48 PM

SEE *BOCCHORI: https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/265827

Dreamer’s Bay — by D. Rupp — last modified Feb 21, 2023 05:17 PM

The site of an ancient port facility located at the southern tip of the Akrotiri Peninsula, Cyprus. The archaeological remains date to the fifth and sixth centuries CE.

Drepanum — by R.J.A. Wilson — last modified Sep 21, 2019 10:32 AM

Drepanum, the modern Trapani, Sicily, is an ancient port city. The archaeological remains of the ancient city are meager. During the First Punic War, Hamilcar fortified the site. The Roman Republic lost a naval engagement near Drepanum in 249 B.C. but then prevailed in the battle of the Egadi islands in 241 B.C. The city was likely of censorial status thereafter.

Dyrr(h)achium/Epidamnos — by J.J. Wilkes — last modified Aug 04, 2023 08:31 PM

A city founded in 627 B.C. by colonists from Corinth and Kerkyra.

Eleutheriou/Kaisariou Limen/Theodosiacus Portus — by C. Foss — last modified Aug 14, 2018 11:21 AM

An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 53 A3 Eleutheriou/Kaisariou Limen/Theodosiacus Portus

Emporiae — by H.S. Sivan — last modified Jan 10, 2022 03:12 PM

A major economic center in the Iberian peninsula, Emporiae (modern Empúries) had indigenous origins but would be the site of a large Greek colonial city.

Emporium — by Jeffrey Becker — last modified Jan 30, 2024 02:33 PM

The river port of the ancient city of Rome that was located between the Aventine Hill and the Rione Testaccio, formally established perhaps in 193 BCE.

Erythrai — by C. Foss — last modified Feb 25, 2024 10:55 PM

Erythrai was one of the twelve Ionian cities of Asia Minor. It is located on a small peninsula that extends into the Bay of Erythrae.

Falesia — by W.V. Harris — last modified Mar 09, 2023 06:03 PM

A Tyrrhenian coastal port opposite Elba. Modern Piombino.

Ferresanus Portus — by Richard Talbert — last modified Jul 31, 2019 07:39 PM

A Roman military harbor facility, attested by name in a Latin inscription dating to 144 CE, on the island of Farasan in the Red Sea. The exact location of the facility is not known; the inscription was found in a context of reuse.

Fortified Port Settlement on Cape St. Athanasius — by Tom Elliott — last modified Jan 31, 2020 03:42 PM

An ancient settlement with fortifications and port facilities located on the modern Cape St. Athanasius near Byala in Bulgaria.

Gaza — by B. Isaac — last modified Oct 15, 2023 11:19 PM

An important ancient settlement on the coast of Palestine.

Genua — by M. Pearce — last modified Jan 17, 2024 10:20 PM

Genua was an ancient settlement of Liguria that came to be destroyed by Carthage in 209 BC. Thereafter it received Roman municipal privileges and was rebuilt.

Gerraicus? Sinus — by D.T. Potts — last modified Jan 03, 2023 03:51 PM

A portion of the Persian Gulf mentioned by Pliny who places it between the Sinus Capeus on the north and the Regio Attene to the south.

Glauke — by C. Foss — last modified Jun 27, 2022 11:02 AM

A settlement and harbor located in Ionia on Mt. Mykale in what is now western Turkey.

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