Caesarea

Caesarea is a city in north-central Israel. Located midway between Tel Aviv and Haifa at the coastal plain close to the city of Hadera, it falls below the jurisdiction of Hof HaCarmel Regional Council. With a population of 5,127, it's far the only Israeli locality managed by a personal enterprise, the Caesarea Development Corporation, and additionally one of the most populous localities now not identified as a local council.

The metropolis become constructed with the aid of Herod the Great approximately 25–13 BCE as the port town Caesarea Maritima. It served as an administrative center of Judaea Province of the Roman Empire, and later the capital of the Byzantine Palaestina Prima province for the duration of the classic length. Following the Muslim conquest within the seventh century, in which it turned into the last city to fall to the Arabs, the city had an Arab majority till Crusader conquest. It was diminished after the Mamluk conquest. In 1884, Bosniak immigrants settled there in a small fishing village.