Caesarea Maritima is also called as Caesarea Palaestina from 133 AD onwards. It was a city and harbor constructed by Herod the Great about 25–13 BC.

Today, its ruins present on the Mediterranean coast of Israel about halfway among the cities of Tel Aviv and Haifa, on the site of Pyrgos Stratonos.

Caesarea Maritima as with Caesarea Philippi in the Golan Heights and Caesarea Mazaca in Anatolian Cappadocia was named to flatter the Caesar.

The city was characterized in detail by the 1st century Roman Jewish historian Josephus (Jewish Antiquities XV.331ff; Jewish War I.408ff).