The Neorion remained an important harbour for the city through the centuries, and when the Latin commercial colonies (and possibly also the Jews) settled there, acquiring the right to establish their port of call on the Golden Horn, the importance of the port grew. First of all, Venetians and Amalfitans settled to the west; then came the Pisans, who at the end of the 11th century established themselves in the densely inhabited area west of the port; finally, in 1155 came the Genoese, who founded their colony in an area lying south and east of the Neorion. In the 17th century, long after the transfer of the Genoese to Galata, on the opposite shore of the Golden Horn, part of the Jewish community settled in the quarter, living there until the middle of the 20th century, when the whole area was demolished to enlarge the coast road and create the square in front of the Yeni Mosque. Due to the Jewish presence in the area, in the Ottoman period the Byzantine "Porta Neoriou" of the sea walls changed its name to "Çifutkapı" ("Gate of the Jew"). At the time of their maximum expansion, the Latin staging areas extended quite a way west of Neorion, reaching the Gate of Bigla/Vigla (also named Drungarios gate, later the Ottoman "Odun Kapı", "Gate of the firewood"). With the rise of Genoese power during the Palaiologan period, the overseas commerce migrated from Neorion to Galata, but after the fall of the city in 1453 and the subsequent decline of Genoa's trade hegemony, the harbour would regain and keep one part of the city's overseas trade until the late Ottoman era.