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In 1952, the Jewish town of Caesarea was established 1–2 kilometres (0.62–1.24 mi) to the north of the ruins of the old city, which in 2011 were incorporated into the newly created Caesarea National Park.
Caesarea (Maritima), stronghold of the Lordship of Caesarea – fortified port city; national park; Cafarlet (Hebrew: HaBonim, Arabic: Kafr Lam) – ruins of Umayyad fort reused by the Crusaders; Calansue, Hospitaller castle; Casal Imbert – at Achziv (formerly Az-Zeeb until 1948) – Crusader "new town" with tower; nothing discernible at present
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 ...
It is likely that Pontius Pilate made his base at Caesarea Maritima, the site where the stone was discovered, since that city had replaced Jerusalem as the administrative capital and military headquarters of the province in AD 6. [8] Pilate probably travelled to Jerusalem, the central city of the province's Jewish population, only when ...
In 3 BCE, Herod's son, Philip (also known as Philip the Tetrarch) founded a city which became his administrative capital, known from Josephus [20] and the Gospels of Matthew and Mark as Caesarea or Caesarea Philippi, to distinguish it from Caesarea Maritima and other cities named Caesarea (Matthew 16, Matthew 16:13, Mark 8, Mark 8:27).
Caesarea obelisk. In the distance, the chimneys of Hadera powerplant. The Caesarea obelisk is a red granite Obelisk 12 metres high (10.5 + 1.4 m), which was erected in the hippodrome of Herod the Great's new-built Roman city of Caesarea Maritima, now Israel. The obelisk seems to have been erected after Herod's time, in the 2nd century CE.
Caesarea was a major center of Judaism before 330, and Sitifis was one of the centres of the soldier cult of Mithraic mysteries. Christianity spread throughout in the 4th and 5th centuries. Among the ruling class, Trinitarian Christianity was replaced by Arianism under the Germanic kingdom of the Vandals , which was established in 430, when the ...
Caesarea (/ ˌ s ɛ z ə ˈ r iː ə, ˌ s ɛ s-, ˌ s iː z-/ SE(E)Z-ə-REE-ə, SESS-; Arabic: قيساريّة, Hebrew: קֵיסָרְיָה, romanized: Qēsarya, pronounced [keiˈsaʁja]), also transliterated as Keisarya or Qaysaria, [2] is an affluent resort town in north-central Israel, which was named after the ancient city of Caesarea Maritima situated 1–2 kilometres (0.62–1.24 mi ...