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The port of Athens, four miles from the city. The irregular coastline of a promontory or peninsula (Acte) provided three natural harbors, Cantharus, or the `great harbor,’ to the west, and the small round harbor of Zea and inlet of Munychia to the east. The adjacent town occupied the promontory itself, together with the rocky hill of Munychia, the ground dividing it from the promontory and a small spit of land known as Eetioneia.

A commercial port in northern Syria (now the Turkish province of Hatay), at the mouth of the river Orontes (Nahr el-Asi). There are traces of Bronze Age (Mycenaean) occupation and commerce at a nearby hill site (Sabouni), but the main settlement and trading post (emporion) was established in c 825–800 BC. Cypriots and Phoenicians played a part, but the principal role was enacted by seamen and businessmen from Chalcis and Eretria in Euboea, who acquired gold and ivory, etc. in the near east and, from the eighth century onward, dispatched these objects from Al Mina (via the Eretrian colony of Corcyra [Corfu]) to other Euboean trading stations at Pithecusae (Ischia) and Cumae (Cuma) beside the Gulf of Cumae (Bay of Naples) in Campania (southwest Italy), where they were exchanged with the Etruscans for copper and iron. Other Greek coastal settlements in north Syria include Posidium (Ras-el-Bassit) and Tell Sukas (Paltus).

Situated on an artificial elevation between the rivers Tigris and Choaspes (perhaps Kerhah, Kharkeh: see also Susa) at the point where they meet, near the Persian Gulf (and the modern frontier between Iraq and Iran). Pliny the Elder describes its foundation by Alexander the Great, who was said to have brought settlers from the royal city of Durine (and some invalid soldiers), but the evidence for this Alexandria is uncertain. A colony, however, was founded by the Seleucid Antiochus IV Epiphanes (175–164 BC) under the name of Antiochia, but after this settlement had been destroyed (not for the first time) by flooding, it was restored by Hyspaosines (c 127–124)—son of a local Arab ruler Sagdodonacus—after whom it took the name of Spasinou. Charax, serving as a port for caravans from the interior until the recession of the Gulf, put an end to this activity.