Caesarea

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  • Noun:
    an ancient seaport in northwestern Israel; an important Roman city in ancient Palestine

Word Origin

Caesarea
Latin city name derived from Caesar, applied in honor of the emperors to some new and existing cities in the Roman Empire, including modern Kayseri, Turkey; Shaizar, Syria, and Cherchell, Algeria (representing a French spelling of an Arabic name based on a Berber garbling of the Latin word).