قيساريه

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Ottoman Turkish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Arabic قَيْسارِيّة (Qaysāriyya) and Byzantine Greek Καισάρεια (Kaisáreia), from Latin Caesarea, from Caesar + -ēa (“-ia: forming place names”) on the pattern of Alexandrea etc. and in honor of the Roman emperor Augustus. Doublet of قیصری.

Proper noun[edit]

قيساريه • (Kaysâriye)

  1. Caesarea (a city in Israel)

Descendants[edit]

  • Turkish: Kayserya

References[edit]

  • Sezen, Tahir (2017) “Kaysâriyye”, in Osmanlı Yer Adları [Ottoman Place Names]‎[1], 2nd edition, Ankara: T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü, page 442
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