Antipatris
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This entry incorporates text from the public domain Easton's Bible Dictionary, originally published in 1897.
Antipatris - a city built by Herod the Great, and called by this name in honour of his father, Antipater II of Judea. It lay between Caesarea and Lydda, two miles inland, on the great Roman road from Caesarea to Jerusalem. To this place Paul was brought by night (Acts 23:31) on his way to Caesarea, from which it was distant 28 miles.
The city ruins are located in Tel Afek (Hebrew: תל אפק), east of Petach Tikva and west of Rosh HaAyin, near the source of the Yarqon River.