Middle East
Israel
Haifa District

Caesarea

Caesarea, also transliterated as Keisarya or Qaysaria, is an affluent resort town in north-central , which was named after the ancient city of situated 1–2 kilometres to the south in the adjacent Caesarea National Park.
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  • Type: Town with 5,130 residents
  • Description: modern day town in Israel
  • Also known as: “Kaysaria” and “Keisarya”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Caesarea and Bird Mosaic.

Photo: Berthold Werner, Public domain.
is a national park on the Mediterranean coast of , in the northern part of the region. The park encompasses a vast archaeological site that showcases the remains of the Roman Imperial city of Maritima.

Archaeological site
Photo: Bukvoed, CC BY 3.0.
The Birds Mosaic is a Byzantine mosaic floor discovered in , in modern , in a Byzantine palace that was built around 600 AD. It is viewable in situ.

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is a conglomerate of two private art museums under the same name, located in Caesarea, Israel. Both are part of the Ralli Museums international foundation.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Or Akiva and Sdot Yam.

Town
Photo: Jim Greenhill, CC BY 2.0.
is a city in the of , on the country's . It is located inland from the ancient port city of and the Mediterranean Sea, and to the north of the city of .

Village
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is a kibbutz in the of . Located on the shore of the Mediterranean Sea, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hof HaCarmel Regional Council.

Village
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Beit Hanania is a moshav in northern . Located close to the south edge of close to , it falls under the jurisdiction of Hof HaCarmel Regional Council. In 2023 it had a population of 846. is situated 3 km northeast of Caesarea.

Caesarea

Latitude
32.50589° or 32° 30′ 21″ north
Longitude
34.90782° or 34° 54′ 28″ east
Population
5,130
Elevation
16 metres (52 feet)
Inception
1977
United Nations Location Code
IL CAE
Open location code
8G4PGW45+94
Open­Street­Map ID
way 741875442
Open­Street­Map feature
landuse=­residential
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
7117228
Wiki­data ID
Q1615560
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yiddish—“Caesarea” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “قيساري”
  • Arabic: “قيسارية‎”
  • Arabic: “قيسارية”
  • Arabic: “قيساريه”
  • Asturian: “Caesarea”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kesariya”
  • Balinese: “Kaisarea”
  • Belarusian: “Кесарыя”
  • Catalan: “Cesarea”
  • Cebuano: “Qesarya”
  • Chinese: “凯撒利亚”
  • Chinese: “凯撒里亚”
  • Chinese: “凱撒利亞”
  • Czech: “Caesarea”
  • Czech: “Kejsarija”
  • Czech: “Kejsarja”
  • Czech: “Qesaryya”
  • Danish: “Caesarea”
  • Dutch: “Caesarea”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “قيساريه”
  • Esperanto: “Cezareo”
  • Finnish: “Caesarea”
  • French: “Césarée”
  • German: “Caesarea”
  • German: “Qeisarjah”
  • German: “Qesarya”
  • Greek: “Καισάρεια”
  • Hebrew: “קיסריה”
  • Hebrew: “קֵיסָרְיָה”
  • Indonesian: “Kaisarea”
  • Irish: “Caesarea”
  • Italian: “Cesarea”
  • Japanese: “カイサリア”
  • Japanese: “カイザリア”
  • Japanese: “カエサリア”
  • Japanese: “カエサリエ”
  • Japanese: “セザリア”
  • Ladino: “Kesariya”
  • Malagasy: “Kaisarea”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Caesarea”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Cesarèa”
  • Persian: “قیساریه”
  • Persian: “قیصریه”
  • Polish: “Cezarea”
  • Portuguese: “Cesareia”
  • Romanian: “Caesarea”
  • Romanian: “Cezareea”
  • Russian: “Кейсария”
  • Russian: “Кесария”
  • Russian: “Цезарея”
  • Serbian: “Cezareja”
  • Serbian: “Цезареја”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Caesarea”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Cezareja”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kesarija”
  • Slovenian: “Caesarea”
  • Spanish: “Cesarea”
  • Swedish: “Qesarya”
  • Swiss German: “Caesarea”
  • Sylheti: “ꠌꠣꠄꠍꠣꠞꠤꠀ”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Caesarea”
  • Turkish: “Kayserya”
  • Ukrainian: “Кесарія”
  • Urdu: “قیساریہ”
  • Urdu: “قیصریہ”
  • Vietnamese: “Caesarea”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Cesarea”
  • Yiddish: “קיסריה”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Caesarea”. Photo: Berthold Werner, Public domain.