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Caesarea

noun

An ancient seaport in northwestern Israel; an important Roman city in ancient Palestine.

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"Caesarea" Quotes from Famous Books

... last quarter of the second century.[17] Every important work speedily found its way into the churches of the chief cities in the Empire. The diffusion was not merely from East to West, though this was the general rule. At the beginning of the fourth century there was in Caesarea a Greek translation of Tertullian's Apology and a collection of Cyprian's epistles.[18] The influence of the Roman Church extended over the greater part of Christendom. Up till about the year 260 the Churches in East and West had still in some ...

— History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) • Adolph Harnack

... Scheyichbi, as the Indians called it, or Nova Caesarea, as it was called in the Latin of its proprietary grant, had a history rather different from that of other English colonies in America. Geographically, it had not a few attractions. It was a good sized dominion surrounded on all sides but one by water, ...

— The Quaker Colonies - A Chronicle of the Proprietors of the Delaware, Volume 8 - in The Chronicles Of America Series • Sydney G. Fisher

Words linked to "Caesarea" : harbor, Basil of Caesarea, seaport, State of Israel, Israel, Sion, Yisrael, haven, Zion, harbour