Caesarea, a city name derived from the Roman title "
Caesar
Gaius Julius Caesar (; ; 12 July 100 BC – 15 March 44 BC), was a Roman people, Roman general and statesman. A member of the First Triumvirate, Caesar led the Roman armies in the Gallic Wars before defeating his political rival Pompey in Caes ...
", was the name of numerous cities and locations in the
Roman Empire:
Places
In the Levant
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Caesarea Maritima
Caesarea Maritima (; Greek: ''Parálios Kaisáreia''), formerly Strato's Tower, also known as Caesarea Palestinae, was an ancient city in the Sharon plain on the coast of the Mediterranean, now in ruins and included in an Israeli national park ...
, also known as "Caesarea Palaestinae", an ancient Roman city near the modern Israeli town
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Caesarea in Palaestina (diocese)
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Caesarea (modern town)
Caesarea ( ; he, קֵיסָרְיָה, Qēsarya, ), also transliterated as Keisarya or Qaysaria, is an affluent resort town in north-central Israel, which was named after the ancient city of Caesarea Maritima situated to the south in the ad ...
, official name Qeysarya, a modern town in Israel built near the site of ancient Caesarea Maritima
* 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
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Caesarea in Cappadocia
Kayseri (; el, Καισάρεια) is a large industrialised city in Central Anatolia, Turkey, and the capital of Kayseri province. The Kayseri Metropolitan Municipality area is composed of five districts: the two central districts of Kocasinan ...
, modern Kayseri, an ancient Roman and modern Anatolian city
* Caesarea in Bithynia, alias
Germanicopolis (Bithynia)
Germanicopolis () was an ancient town in Bithynia, also known as Caesarea in Bythinia (not to be confused with Caesarea Germanica, as such a former bishopric and present Latin Catholic titular see.
History
It was located on the Gelbes river, n ...
, former bishopric and present Latin Catholic titular see
* Caesarea in Cilicia, renamed
Anazarbus
Anazarbus ( grc, Ἀναζαρβός, medieval Ain Zarba; modern Anavarza; ar, عَيْنُ زَرْبَة) was an ancient Cilician city. Under the late Roman Empire, it was the capital of Cilicia Secunda. Roman emperor Justinian I rebuilt ...
, an ancient Cilician and Roman city in Turkey
* Caesarea in Paphlagonia, renamed
Hadrianopolis in Paphlagonia
Hadrianopolis in Paphlagonia ( grc, Ἁδριανούπολις ἐν Παφλαγονίᾳ) was a city in southwestern Paphlagonia, Asia Minor (modern Turkey), about 3km west of modern Eskipazar.
It was inhabited at least from the 1st century ...
, in Turkey
* Caesarea Antiochia, also known as
Antioch of Pisidia
Antioch in Pisidia – alternatively Antiochia in Pisidia or Pisidian Antioch ( el, Ἀντιόχεια τῆς Πισιδίας) and in Roman Empire, Latin: ''Antiochia Caesareia'' or ''Antiochia Colonia Caesarea'' – was a city in th ...
, an ancient Pisidian and Roman city
* Caesarea Germanica, now
Kahramanmaraş
Marash (Armenian: Մարաշ), officially Kahramanmaraş () and historically Germanicea (Greek: Γερμανίκεια), is a city in the Mediterranean Region of Turkey and the administrative center of Kahramanmaraş Province. Before 1973, Kahrama ...
in southern Turkey, an ancient Roman and Byzantine town
* Caesarea Cibyra, in southwest Anatolia, also called
Cibyra
Elsewhere
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Kaisareia, Kozani in Macedonia, Greece
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Caesarea in Mauretania
Caesarea in Mauretania (Latin: ''Caesarea Mauretaniae'', meaning "Caesarea of Mauretania") was a Roman colony in Roman-Berber North Africa. It was the capital of Mauretania Caesariensis and is now called Cherchell, in modern Algeria. In the ...
, an ancient Roman-Berber city and former capital of Mauretania Caesariensis now in
Cherchell
Cherchell (Arabic: شرشال) is a town on Algeria's Mediterranean coast, west of Algiers. It is the seat of Cherchell District in Tipaza Province. Under the names Iol and Caesarea, it was formerly a Roman colony and the capital of the k ...
, 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
Other uses
* The Kidon, a unit in the
Mossad
Mossad ( , ), ; ar, الموساد, al-Mōsād, ; , short for ( he, המוסד למודיעין ולתפקידים מיוחדים, links=no), meaning 'Institute for Intelligence and Special Operations'. is the national intelligence agency ...
formerly known as the ''Caesarea''
* ''Caesarea'', the
third novel in ''The Pontypool Trilogy'' by Tony Burgess
* ''Caesarea'', a plant genus of
Vivianiaceae
Vivianiaceae was a family of flowering plants placed in the order Geraniales. The family name is derived from the genus '' Viviania'' Cav. It includes both the genus ''Viviania'' and ''Balbisia''. The family is now wholly incorporated into the ...
See also
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Caesaria
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Caesariana
* Claudiocaesarea or
Mistea
Mistea or Misthia, also known as Claudiocaesarea and Klaudiokaisareia, was a town of ancient Lycaonia, inhabited in Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine times. Misthia was the seat of an archbishop; no longer residential, it remains a titular see o ...
, an ancient Roman city near Beyşehir in Turkey
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