buddy, then it would be Mongolia Mongolia may be sweet if that's your thing--certainly a long history of portable real estate--but it is obviously not "valuable" in the sense we normally use for real estate (the most valuable parts are, surprise, the cities)
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Do you want me to whip up a comprehensive list of major cities built either on navigable water ways or bodies of water with suitable harbors too?
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be my guest, but I never argued that those don't exist--only that navigable waterways and harbors are not prerequisites for cities
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I said "major" cities for a reason.
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Not prerequisites for major cities, then
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I'll add the caveat that the city must have been established as an influential population center PRIOR to the advent of Rail, Automobile, or Air transport.
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No kidding; seaports became considerably more valuable after railways came along--before that, major cities favored rivers for water access (ocean access wasn't rare, of course, just less common)
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Damascus and Aleppo, two of the oldest on the planet, have no navigable rivers or seaports. Also lol @ LA, since they didn't have one either until massive civil engineering works made them one (well away from downtown)
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