Caesarea

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, Israel, 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

• 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

Other uses

• The Kidon, a unit in the Mossad formerly known as the Caesarea
• Caesarea, the third novel in The Pontypool Trilogy by Tony Burgess
• Caesarea, a plant genus of Vivianiaceae

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Caesarea
• All pages with titles containing Caesarea
• Caesaria
• Caesariana
• Claudiocaesarea or Mistea, an ancient Roman city near Beyşehir in Turkey