Caesarea
Caesarea (or Cesarea, as in Italian), a city name derived from the first Roman imperial family, which later became a title "Caesar", was given to numerous cities and locations in the Roman Empire proper and/or Byzantine Empire :
Places
Europe:
Caesarea in Macedonia
In the Levant
- Caesarea, Hebrew: Qeysarya, a modern town in Israel built near the site of ancient Caesarea Maritima
- Caesarea Maritima, also known as "Caesarea Palaestinae", an ancient Roman city near the modern Israeli town
- Caesarea Philippi, also known as "Caesarea Paneas", an ancient Roman city at the foot of the Israeli-occupied southern slope of Munt Hermon, Syria
- Caesarea Magna, formerly Larissa in Syria, modern Shaizar, an ancient Roman city and modern Syrian town
In Turkey
- Caesarea in Bithynia, alias Germanicopolis (in Bithynia), former bishopric and present Latin Catholic titular see
- Caesarea in Cappadocia, modern Kayseri, an ancient Roman and modern Anatolian city
- Caesarea in Cilicia, renamed Anazarbus, an ancient Cilician and Roman city in modern Turkey
- Caesarea in Paphlagonia, renamed Hadrianopolis in modern Turkey
- Caesarea Antiochia, also known as "Antioch of Pisidia", an ancient Pisidian and Roman city
- Caesarea Germanica, modern Kahramanmaraş in southern Turkey, an ancient Roman and Byzantine town
- Caesarea, in southwest Anatolia, also named Kibyra
Elsewhere
- Caesarea Mauretaniae, capital Mauretania Caesariensis, an ancient Roman-Berber city, now Cherchell, in Algeria
- Caesarea in Numidia, now Henchir-El-Hammam (Youks-les-Bains) in Algeria and a Latin Catholic titular see
- The island of Caesarea, modern Jersey, in the Channel Islands
- Derived from the above, Nova Caesarea - the Latin name applied to the colony of New Jersey (now as US State)
Other uses
- Kidon, a unit in the Mossad formerly named Caesarea
- Caesarea (genus), a plant genus in the family Vivianiaceae
See also
- Caesariana
- Claudiocaesarea, modern Beyşehir, an ancient Roman city and modern Turkish town
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