Caesarea
Archimandrite Nikifor’s Biblical Encyclopedia
(Acts 9:30 and elsewhere) - a city of Palestine on the eastern Mediterranean coast between Dor and Joppa, built by Herod the Great and named Caesarea in honor of the Roman emperor Caesar Augustus. The site had previously been occupied by a town called Strato's Tower, but Herod enlarged it, built great stone palaces, a magnificent harbor, and a vast amphitheater, and gave the new city its name (Josephus, Antiquities 15.9.6). The name long remained prominent in church history, and its ruins were still known as Kaisariyeh.