Caesarea Maritima

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Caesarea Maritima: Roman city, capital of of the province Judaea/Palaestina.

Phoenician port (Migdal Šoršon)
Hellenistic: Sidonian outpost named "Strato's Tower" (259 BCE: mentioned in Zeno Archive)
103 BCE: Captured by the Hasmonaean ruler Alexander Jannaeus
63 BCE: Transferred to Syria by Pompey the Great
30 BCE: Given to Herod by Octavian
20 BCE Refounded by king Herod and named after the emperor; 45 hectares; a Graeco-Roman balance to Jewish Jerusalem
Dams made of concrete
6 CE Seat of the prefect (later procurator)
Governor's Palace

Modern surname Maritima to distinguish this city from Caesara in Cappadocia
Vespasian: Colonia Prima Flavia Augusta
Severus Alexander: Metropolis Provinciae Syriae Palestinae
Center of Christian and Jewish scholarship
Eusebius
Byzantine walls: 135 hectares
640 Captured by Arabs

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