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

Roman Empire The Roman Empire ruled the Mediterranean and much of Europe, Western Asia and North Africa. The Roman people, Romans conquered most of this during the Roman Republic, Republic, and it was ruled by emperors following Octavian's assumption of ...

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In the Levant

Caesarea Maritima Caesarea () also Caesarea Maritima, Caesarea Palaestinae or Caesarea Stratonis, was an ancient and medieval port city on the coast of the eastern Mediterranean, and later a small fishing village. It was the capital of Judaea (Roman province), ...

, also known as "Caesarea Palaestinae", an ancient Roman city near the modern Israeli town ** Caesarea in Palaestina (diocese) *

Caesarea (modern town) Caesarea ( ; Arabic: قيساريّة, , ), also transliterated as Keisarya or Qaysaria, is an affluent resort town in north-central Israel, which was named after the ancient city of Caesarea Maritima situated to the south in the adjacent Ca ...

, 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

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in the Channel Islands * Nova Caesarea, the Latin name applied to the colony of

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, now a US state, derived from the name of the island

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* The Kidon, a unit in the

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formerly known as the ''Caesarea'' * ''Caesarea'', the third novel in ''The Pontypool Trilogy'' by Tony Burgess * ''Caesarea'' (plant), a plant genus in the family Francoaceae

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