Caesarea Maritima - Caesarea, Israel - Wikipedia Entries on Waymarking.com

The city and harbor were built under Herod the Great during c. 22–10 BC near the site of a former Phoenician naval station known as Stratonos pyrgos. It later became the provincial capital of Roman Judea, Roman Syria Palaestina and Byzantine Palaestina Prima provinces. The city was populated throughout the 1st to 6th centuries CE and became an important early center of Christianity during the Byzantine period, but was mostly abandoned following the Muslim conquest of 640. It was re-fortified by the Crusaders, and finally slighted by the Mamluks in 1265.

The name Caesarea was adopted into Arabic as Qaysaria. The location was all but abandoned in 1800. It was re-developed into a fishing village by Bosniak Muslim immigrants after 1884, and into a modern town of after 1940, in 1977 incorporated as the municipality of Caesarea within Israel's Haifa District, about halfway between the cities of Tel Aviv and Haifa.

The ruins of the ancient city, on the coast just about 2 km south of modern Caesarea, were excavated in the 1950s and 1960s and the site was incorporated into a new national park in 2011. The archaeological excavations uncovered remains from many periods, in particular, a complex of Crusader fortifications, a Roman theatre and a unique high-level Roman aqueduct.

The coordinates are from the Roman Theater.

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