Caesarea (disambiguation)
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Caesarea is a modern Israeli suburb between Tel Aviv and Haifa.
Caesarea, a city name derived from "Caesar
", was the name of numerous cities and locations in the Roman Empire
, many of which bear different names at present (or might have had alternate names also in the Roman period itself). Among them:
Caesarea may also refer to:
Caesarea, a city name derived from "Caesar
Caesar (title)
Caesar is a title of imperial character. It derives from the cognomen of Julius Caesar, the Roman dictator...
", was the name of numerous cities and locations in the Roman Empire
Roman Empire
The Roman Empire was the post-Republican period of the ancient Roman civilization, characterised by an autocratic form of government and large territorial holdings in Europe and around the Mediterranean....
, many of which bear different names at present (or might have had alternate names also in the Roman period itself). Among them:
- Caesarea Maritima/Caesarea PalaestinaCaesarea PalaestinaCaesarea Maritima , Caesarea Palaestina from 133 CE onwards, was a city and harbor built by Herod the Great about 25–13 BC. Today, its ruins lie on the Mediterranean coast of Israel about halfway between the cities of Tel Aviv and Haifa, on the site of Pyrgos Stratonos . Caesarea Maritima was...
, Roman provincial capital of Palestine- Eusebius of CaesareaEusebius of CaesareaEusebius of Caesarea also called Eusebius Pamphili, was a Roman historian, exegete and Christian polemicist. He became the Bishop of Caesarea in Palestine about the year 314. Together with Pamphilus, he was a scholar of the Biblical canon...
was bishop of this Caesarea
- Eusebius of Caesarea
- Caesarea Philippi (Banias), in the Golan Heights
- Caesarea Mazaca, city in Cappadocia, modern Kayseri, Turkey
- AnazarbusAnazarbusAnazarbus in Ancient Cilicia was an ancient Cilician city, situated in Anatolia in modern Turkey, in the present Çukurova about 15 km west of the main stream of the present Ceyhan River and near its tributary the Sempas Su.A lofty isolated ridge formed its acropolis...
, name of the city of Caesarea in Cilicia after the fall of the Roman Empire - Antioch, Pisidia, proper name of the city of Caesarea Antiochia, near modern Yalvaç, Turkey
- Germanicopolis (Bithynia), the city of Caesarea Germanice in Bithynia
- CherchellCherchellCherchell is a seaport town in the Province of Tipaza, Algeria, 55 miles west of Algiers. It is the district seat of Cherchell District. As of 1998, it had a population of 24,400.-Ancient history:...
, modern name of the city of Caesarea in Algeria- This Caesarea was the capital of the province of Mauretania CaesariensisMauretania CaesariensisMauretania Caesariensis was a Roman province located in northwestern Africa. It was the easternmost of the North African Roman provinces, mainly in present Algeria, with its capital at Caesarea , now Cherchell.-Historical background:In the first century AD, Roman...
- This Caesarea was the capital of the province of Mauretania Caesariensis
- Shaizar (or Saijar), the proper name of the city of Caesarea Magna, in Syria
- The island of Caesarea, modern JerseyJerseyJersey, officially the Bailiwick of Jersey is a British Crown Dependency off the coast of Normandy, France. As well as the island of Jersey itself, the bailiwick includes two groups of small islands that are no longer permanently inhabited, the Minquiers and Écréhous, and the Pierres de Lecq and...
, in the Channel Islands (the derivation of the island's name is disputed) - Caesarea, in ItalyItalyItaly , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
, was a disappeared city, forming a PentapolisPentapolisA pentapolis, from the Greek words , "five" and , "city" is a geographic and/or institutional grouping of five cities...
with RavennaRavennaRavenna is the capital city of the Province of Ravenna in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy and the second largest comune in Italy by land area, although, at , it is little more than half the size of the largest comune, Rome...
, ForlìForlìForlì is a comune and city in Emilia-Romagna, Italy, and is the capital of the province of Forlì-Cesena. The city is situated along the Via Emilia, to the right of the Montone river, and is an important agricultural centre...
, ForlimpopoliForlimpopoliForlimpopoli is a town and comune in the Province of Forlì-Cesena, northern Italy. It is located on the Via Emilia between Cesena and Forlì.-History:...
and ClasseClasséClassé is a Canadian manufacturer of high-end audio equipment, such as amplifiers, pre-amplifiers and source components .-History:...
Caesarea may also refer to:
- KidonKidonKidon is the name of a department within Israel's Mossad that is allegedly responsible for assassination and kidnapping. Kidon is suspected of being behind a number of assassinations in the Operation Wrath of God campaign carried out by Israel after the 1972 Munich massacre...
, a unit in the Mossad formerly named Caesarea - Caesarea: a plant genus in the family VivianiaceaeVivianiaceaeVivianiaceae is 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 genus Caesarea Cambess....
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