Caesarea (disambiguation)

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Caesarea, a city name derived from "Caesar", was the name of numerous cities and locations in the Roman Empire:

  • Caesarea, a modern Israeli town near ancient Caesarea Maritima
  • Caesarea Maritima, also known as Caesarea Palaestina, Roman and late Byzantine capital of Palaestina Prima province.
  • Caesarea Philippi (Banias), in the Golan Heights
  • Caesarea Mazaca or Cappadocian Caesarea, a city in Cappadocia, modern Kayseri, Turkey
  • Caesarea in Cilicia, renamed Anazarbus
  • Caesarea Antiochia in Pisidia, also known as Antioch
  • Caesarea Germanice in Bithynia, later known as Germanicopolis
  • Caesarea in Algeria, modern Cherchell, capital of the province of Mauretania Caesariensis
  • Caesarea Magna in Syria, modern Shaizar (or Saijar)
  • Claudiocaesarea in Pisidia
  • The island of Caesarea, modern Jersey, in the Channel Islands (the derivation of the island's name is disputed)
  • Caesarea (Italy), an ancient city near Ravenna
  • Caesarea, a community in the township of Scugog, Ontario, Canada.

Caesarea may also refer to:

  • Kidon, a unit in the Mossad formerly named Caesarea
  • Caesarea: a plant genus in the family Vivianiaceae.
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