Joseph L. Rife (eds.), "Burchard of Mt. Sion, Description of the Holy Land 1.3" in Caesarea Maritima: A Collection of Testimonia entry published October 19, 2022, https://caesarea-maritima.org/testimonia/202
   
      
         
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        Cesarea Palestine, and Cesarea maritima are directly attested at Burchard of Mt. Sion, Description of the Holy Land 1.3. This passage was written ca. 1274-1285 CE possibly in Palestine.
         Burchard of Mt. Sion was a Dominican friar from Magdeburg in Lower
            Saxony who wrote the the most important description of the Holy Land from the 13th
            century. The earliest and longest account of his pilgrimage, which grew particularly
            popular during the 14th-18th centuries, described his journey from northern Germany to
            the Levant, where he stayed from 1274 to 1284, shortly before the fall of Acre, the last
            Crusader stronghold in the Holy Land, in 1291. The content of his description is based
            upon personal experience, research into ancient writings and earlier itineraries, and
            close study of scripture. In this passage near the beginning of his work, Burchard
            outlines the regional designations of Palestine, amalgamating Biblical, Roman, and
            contemporary conceptions of space.
         
        
            Post istam quartam
            Syriam, scilicet Syriam Phenicis, sequitur Palestina, que Philistiim proprie
            nιιncupatur, quia tres sunt, ut sequitur, Palestine, que tamen omnes sunt Syrie magne
            partes. Prima Palestina est, cuius metropolis est Jerusalem, cum omnibus montanis suis
            usque ad mare mortuum et usque ad desertum et Cades Barne; secunda, cuius metropolis est
               Cesarea Palestine sive Cesarea
            maritima, cum tota terra Philistiim, incipiens a predicta Petra Incisa sive
            Castro Peregrinorum, et se extendens usque Basan contra austrum. Tercia est, cuius
            metropolis est Bethsan, sita sub monte Gelboe iuxta Iordanem. Hec quondam Scythopolis
            dicebatur. Ista Palestina dicitur proprie Galilea sive campus magnus Esdraelon.
        
        
        Laurent 1873
      
         
        
        After this fourth Syria, i.e., Syria of Phoenicia, comes Palestine,
            which should properly be called Philistim, because there are three Palestines as
            follows, but all three are parts of Greater Syria. Palestine I is that province whose
            capital is Jerusalem, together with all its mountainous country, as far as the Dead Sea
            and the desert and Kadesh Barnea. Palestine II is the one whose capital is Caesarea
            Palestinae or Caesarea Maritima, together with all the land of the Philistines,
            beginning at the aforementioned Petra Incisa or Pilgrim’s Castle, and reaching eastward
            to Bashan. Palestine III is the one whose capital is Beth Shan, located below Mount
            Gilboa next to the Jordan. This city was formerly called Scythopolis. This Palestine is
            properly called Galilee, or the great Plain of Esdraelon.
        
        
        Trans.
               J. L. Rife with ref. to Pringle 2018
      
         
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        Bashan
        Beth Shean (Scythopolis)
        Dead Sea
        Galilee
        Gilboa, Mount
        Jerusalem
        Jezreel, Plain of (Esdraelon)
        Jordan River
        Kadesh Barnea
        Palestine
        Petra Incisa or Pilgrim’s Castle
        Syria Phoenice
      
      
      
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        Medieval History
        Roman History