Caesarea

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Caesarea is the name of several places in Ancient Rome, including:

• The city of Caesarea Antiochia, properly Antioch in Pisidia, near modern Yalvaç, Turkey
• The city of Caesarea Mazaca in Cappadocia, modern Kayseri, Turkey
• The city of Caesarea Maritima (or Caesarea Palaestina), modern Caesarea, in Israel
• The city of Caesarea Philippi (Banias) in the Golan Heights
• The city of Caesarea: modern Cherchell, in Algeria
• The city of Caesarea Magna or Caesara, properly Saijar or Shaizar, in Syria
• The island of Caesarea, modern Jersey, in the Channel Islands

It may also mean:

• Caesarea, a unit in the Mossad that became Kidon