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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 :
Places
In the Levant
Caesarea Maritima , also known as "Caesarea Palaestinae", an ancient Roman city near the modern Israeli town
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
See also
Topics referred to by the same term