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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 Philippi, an ancient city at Banias, in the Golan Heights
- Caesarea Magna, formerly Larissa in Syria, modern 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 (in Bithynia), former bishopric and present Latin Catholic titular see
- Caesarea in Cilicia, renamed Anazarbus, an ancient Cilician and Roman city in modern Turkey
- Caesarea in Paphlagonia, renamed Hadrianopolis in modern Turkey
- Caesarea Antiochia, also known as "Antioch of Pisidia", an ancient Pisidian and Roman city
- Caesarea Germanica, modern Kahramanmaraş in southern Turkey, an ancient Roman and Byzantine town
- Caesarea Cibyra, in southwest Anatolia, also named Kibyra
Elsewhere
- Kaisareia, Kozani in Macedonia, Greece
- Caesarea Mauretaniae, an ancient Roman-Berber city and former capital of Mauretania Caesariensis in modern-day Cherchell, Algeria
- Caesarea (island), modern 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
- Kidon, a unit in the Mossad formerly named Caesarea
- Caesarea (novel), the third novel in The Pontypool Trilogy by Tony Burgess
- Caesarea (genus), a plant genus in the family Vivianiaceae
See also
- All pages with titles beginning with Caesarea
- All pages with titles containing Caesarea
- Caesaria
- Caesariana
- Claudiocaesarea, modern Beyşehir, an ancient Roman city and modern Turkish town
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