Caesarea - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE - مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Caesarea - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Athamina, Khalil

Document Type	:	AL
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1061185
Doc. NO	:	ALei1582
Main Entry	:	Athamina, Khalil
Title & Author	:	Caesarea - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Athamina, Khalil
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Note	:	(2,437 words)
Abstract	:	Caesarea Maritima (Ar. Qayṣariyya, Heb. Keisarya, Qesarya) of classical antiquity was a Palestinian harbour some twenty-five miles south of the site of present-day Haifa. The construction of the harbour on the Phoenician ruins known as the Tower of Strabo (one of the ancient kings of Sidon) was begun by the Edomite king Herod the Great (r. 37–4 B.C.E.), in honour of his suzerain, the Roman emperor Augustus Caesar, and thus bore the latter’s name (Jerome Murphy-O’Connor, The Holy Land. An archaeological guide
Subject	:	Islam.
electronic file name	:	ALei1582.pdf