Caesarea Maritima
Vanished settlement · Israel
- Abandoned
- 1265
- Founded
- 12 BC
- Population
- 5,343
- Coordinates
- 32.501, 34.892
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: ancient Levantine city
History
Caesarea, also Caesarea Maritima, Caesarea Palaestinae or Caesarea Stratonis, was an ancient and medieval port city on the coast of the eastern Mediterranean, and later a small fishing village. It was the capital of Roman Judaea, Syria Palaestina and Palaestina Prima, successively, for a period of c. 650 years and a major intellectual hub of the Mediterranean. Today, the site is part of the Caesarea National Park, on the western edge of the Sharon plain in Israel.