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Caesarea Maritima
Q319242Caesarea Maritima: Roman city, capital of of the province Judaea/Palaestina.
History
- 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)
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Governor's Palace - 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
Sights
- Temple of Augustus and Roma
- Dams
- Governor's palace
- Theater
- Poorly visible amphitheater
- Hippodrome
- Aqueduct
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