Caesarea
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Caesarea, a city name derived from the Roman title "Caesar", was the name of numerous cities and locations in the Roman Empire:
Caesarea, a city name derived from the Roman title "Caesar", was the name of numerous cities and locations in the Roman Empire:
Places
In the Levant
Caesarea Maritima, also known as "Caesarea Palaestinae", an ancient Roman city near the modern Israeli town Caesarea in Palaestina (diocese) Caesarea (modern town), official name Qeysarya, a modern town in Israel built near the site of ancient Caesarea Maritima Barrat Qisarya, a tribal village near in Mandatory Palestine until depopulation in 1948 Caesarea ad Libanum, a Roman name of Arqa in Lebanon Caesarea Philippi, an ancient city at Banias in the Golan Heights Caesarea Magna, formerly Larissa in Syria, now Shaizar, an ancient Roman city and modern Syrian town
In Turkey
Caesarea in Cappadocia, modern Kayseri, an ancient Roman and modern Anatolian city Caesarea in Bithynia, alias Germanicopolis (Bithynia), former bishopric and present Latin Catholic titular see Caesarea in Cilicia, renamed Anazarbus, an ancient Cilician and Roman city in Turkey Caesarea in Paphlagonia, renamed Hadrianopolis in Paphlagonia, in Turkey Caesarea Antiochia, also known as Antioch of Pisidia, an ancient Pisidian and Roman city Caesarea Germanica, now Kahramanmaraş in southern Turkey, an ancient Roman and Byzantine town Caesarea Cibyra, in southwest Anatolia, also called Cibyra
Elsewhere
Kaisareia, Kozani in Macedonia, Greece Caesarea in Mauretania, an ancient Roman-Berber city and former capital of Mauretania Caesariensis now in Cherchell, Algeria Caesarea, a former name of the island of Jersey in the Channel Islands Nova Caesarea, the Latin name applied to the colony of New Jersey, now a US state, derived from the name of the island
See also
Caesaria Caesariana Claudiocaesarea or Mistea, an ancient Roman city near Beyşehir in Turkey
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