🏛️ Antipatris-Diospolis
Roman fortress and administrative centre in the Judean coastal plain
📌 Fast Facts
- Located in the Judean coastal plain, approximately 35 km northeast of Tel Aviv
- Founded as a Hasmonean fortress; expanded and renamed Antipatris by Herod the Great (c. 9 BCE)
- Served as a major Roman administrative and military post controlling trade routes
- Site abandoned in the Islamic period; largely unexcavated
Antipatris was a fortified city established during the Hellenistic period and substantially developed under Herod the Great around ...