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Promontory Palace, Herod's Palace and roman Praetorium at the Caesarea's National Park, Israel, with hippodrome and the harbour in the background. Caesarea was built by Herod the Great about 25–13 BCE as the port city 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 during the classic period.