Antipatris

Antipatris

Antipatris, one of two places known as Tel Afek (Hebrew: תל אפק‎), was a city built by Herod the Great, and named in honour of his father, Antipater II of Judea. It lay between Caesarea Maritima and Lydda, two miles inland, on the great Roman road from Caesarea to Jerusalem.

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