🏛️ Caesarea Paneas
Hellenistic-Roman city in northern Israel, site of Peter's Confession
📌 Fast Facts
- Location: Banias Spring, Golan Heights, northern Israel
- Founded: Hellenistic period as Pan shrine; expanded under Herod the Great (37–4 BCE)
- Renamed: Caesarea Philippi by Herod Philip I to honor Caesar Augustus
- Christian significance: Traditional site of Jesus's declaration to Peter regarding the church
Caesarea Paneas is a Hellenistic and Roman city in the Golan Heights that served as a major administrative ...