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The '''Cinque Ports''' (Derivation: Old French; ''cink porz'') - pronounced ''sink ports'' – were originally the 12th century seaports of [[Hastings]], [[Sandwich UK|Sandwich]], [[Dover UK|Dover]], [[Romney UK|Romney]] and [[Hythe]] that were granted special privileges for providing ships, equipment and men for the defence of the coasts of [[Kent]] and [[Sussex]] in [[England]]. They were the closest England ever had to a European-type league or confederacy of towns with a like-minded purpose.
The '''Cinque Ports''' (Derivation: Old French; ''cink porz'') - pronounced ''sink ports'' – were originally the 12th century seaports of [[Hastings]], [[Sandwich UK|Sandwich]], [[Dover UK|Dover]], [[Romney UK|Romney]] and [[Hythe]] that were granted special privileges for providing ships, equipment and men for the defence of the coasts of [[Kent]] and [[Sussex]] in [[England]]. They were the closest England ever had to a European-type league or confederacy of towns with a like-minded purpose.