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caesarea
/ˌkeɪsɚˈiə/
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What does caesarea mean?
proper noun
- A port city in Israel.
More meanings (2)
proper noun
- (historical) Former name of Kayseri: a city in central Turkey.
- (historical) Former name of Cherchell: a city in northern Algeria; the former capital of Mauretania and Numidia in the Roman Empire.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˌkeɪsɚˈiə/
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In Caramania and Caesarea none were left alive.
Basil of Caesarea declared it "a matter of no interest to us whether the earth is a sphere or a cylinder or a disk, or concave in the middle like a fan."
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And from thence to Jerusalem are three day journey, in the which men shall go through Caesarea Philippi, and so to Jaffa and Rames and the castle of Emmaus, and so to Jerusalem.
The time is almost ripe for a heart-searching Dialogue of the Dead, “How we settled our religions for ever and ever,” between, let us say, Eusebius of Caesarea and one of Nizam-al-Mulk’s tame theologians.