In the ancient world, locales of this type stored penteconters.
In the ancient world, locales of this type stored penteconters. In Roman times, the trip between one of these locales at Brundisium and another at Dyrrhacium consistently took a single day. Trajan ordered that a hexagonal one of these structures be built behind the Claudian one near Ostia, which served as this type of site for the city of (*) Rome. The Long Walls ran northeast of a settlement of this type called the Piraeus, which became important to Athens after Themistocles began using it for military purposes. The ones on the islands of Delos and Rhodes were free from mercantile taxes. For 10 points, name this type of place which the lighthouse Pharos aided in Hellenistic Alexandria, where goods were unloaded from quinquiremes and triremes.
In the ancient world, locales of this type stored penteconters.
ports [or harbors; or port towns; or harbor towns; or shipyards; or docks; or coastal cities; or seaside cities; or maritime cities; prompt on \"towns,\" \"cities,\" \"markets,\" or \"emporia\"]