Port Partly Passed Over on Northward Journey

Port partly passed over on northward journey crossword clue. UK Daily Mail crossword on 13 June 2017, 6 letters.

The answer: ODESSA

Odessa or Odesa is the third most populous city of Ukraine and a major tourism center, seaport and transportation hub located on the northwestern shore of the Black Sea. Odessa is also an administrative center of the Odessa Oblast and a multiethnic cultural center. Odessa is sometimes called the “pearl of the Black Sea,” the “South Capital” (under the Russian Empire and Soviet Union), and “Southern Palmyra”.

The predecessor of Odessa, a small Tatar settlement, was founded by Hacı I Giray, the Khan of Crimea, in 1440 and originally named after him as “Hacıbey”. After a period of Lithuanian control, it passed into the domain of the Ottoman Sultan in 1529 and remained in Ottoman hands until the Ottoman Empire’s defeat in the Russo-Turkish War of 1792.