Caesarea Maritima (/ ˌ s ɛ s ə ˈ r iː ə m ə ˈ r ɪ t ɪ m ə /; Greek: Παράλιος Καισάρεια Parálios Kaisáreia), formerly Strato's Tower, also known as Caesarea Palestinae, was an ancient city in the Sharon plain on the coast of the Mediterranean, now in ruins and included in an Israeli national park.For centuries it was a major intellectual hub of the Mediterranean ...

Mediolanum, the ancient city where Milan now stands, was originally an Insubrian city, but afterwards became an important Roman city in northern Italy.The city was settled by the Insubres around 600 BC, conquered by the Romans in 222 BC, and developed into a key centre of Western Christianity and informal capital of the Western Roman Empire.It declined under the …

Caesarea (/ ˌ s ɛ z ə ˈ r iː ə, ˌ s ɛ s ə ˈ r iː ə, ˌ s iː z ə ˈ r iː ə /) (Hebrew: קֵיסָרְיָה, pronounced [keiˈsaʁja]), Keysariya or Qesarya, often simplified to Keisarya, and Qaysaria, is an affluent town in north-central Israel, which inherits its name and much of its territory from the ancient city of Caesarea Maritima (Greek: Καισάρεια).

Etymology. The name Judea is a Greek and Roman adaptation of the name "Judah", which originally encompassed the territory of the Israelite tribe of that name and later of the ancient Kingdom of Judah. Nimrud Tablet K.3751, dated c. 733 BCE, is the earliest known record of the name Judah (written in Assyrian cuneiform as Yaudaya or KUR.ia-ú-da-a-a).. Judea was …

Banias or Banyas (Arabic: بانياس الحولة; Modern Hebrew: בניאס; Judeo-Aramaic, Medieval Hebrew: פמייס, etc.; Ancient Greek: Πανεάς) is a site in the Golan Heights near a natural spring, once associated with the Greek god Pan.It had been inhabited for 2,000 years, until it was abandoned and destroyed following the Six Day War.

Caesarea, on the seacoast just northwest of Jerusalem, at first Caesarea Maritima, then after 133 Caesarea Palaestina, was built by Herod the Great, c. 25–13 BC, and was the capital of Iudaea Province (6–132) and later Palaestina Prima. It was there that Peter baptized the centurion Cornelius, considered the first gentile convert.

The spacious slope of the Mount of Beatitudes (also known as Mount Eremos, a Greek word meaning solitary or uninhabited) would have provided ample space for a large crowd to gather to hear Jesus.. The 4th-century pilgrim Egeria records a tradition that may go back to the Jewish-Christians of Capernaum.She tells of a cave in the hillside at the Seven Springs, near Tabgha, …

Syria Palaestina (literally, "Palestinian Syria"; Latin: Syria Palaestīna [ˈs̺ʏria paɫae̯s̺ˈt̪iːna]; Koinē Greek: Συρία ἡ Παλαιστίνη, romanized: Syría hē Palaistínē, Koine Greek: [syˈri.a (h)e̝ pa.lɛsˈt̪i.ne̝]) was a Roman province in the Palestine region between the early 2nd and late 4th centuries AD. It resulted from the merging of the province of ...

Herod also built Caesarea Maritima which replaced Jerusalem as the capital of the Roman province. In 6 CE, following Herod's death in 4 BCE, Judea ... Map of Jerusalem as it appeared in the years 958–1052, according to Arab geographers such as al-Muqaddasi.

Colonies in antiquity were post-Iron Age city-states founded from a mother-city (its "metropolis"), not from a territory-at-large. Bonds between a colony and its metropolis remained often close, and took specific forms during the period of classical antiquity. Generally, colonies founded by the ancient Phoenicians, Carthage, Rome, Alexander the Great and his successors remained tied …