Editing Caesarea Maritima (section)

====Ottoman Empire====
[[File:Roman and Medieval ruins in Kaisarieh from the 1871-77 Palestine Exploration Fund Survey of Palestine.jpg|thumb|Roman and medieval ruins in "Kaisarieh", drawn for the 1871-77 [[PEF Survey of Palestine]]]]Caesarea became part of the [[Ottoman Empire]] in 1516, along with the rest of the Levant, and remained under Ottoman rule for four centuries. In 1664, a settlement is mentioned consisting of 100 [[Moroccan people|Moroccan]] families and 7 to 8 Jewish ones.<ref>Roger, 1664; cited in Ringel 1975, 174; cited in Petersen, 2001, p.129</ref> In the 18th century it again declined.<ref>Petersen, 2001, p. [https://www.academia.edu/21619490/Gazetteer_3._A-C 129]</ref> In 1806, the German explorer [[Ulrich Jasper Seetzen]] saw "Káisserérie" as a ruin occupied by some poor fishermen and their families.<ref>Seetzen, 1854, vol 2, pp. [https://archive.org/stream/ulrichjaspersee00seetgoog#page/n601/mode/1up 72]–73. Alt: [https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/view/bsb10468158?page=80 Seetzen, Ulrich Jasper: Ulrich Jasper Seetzen's Reisen durch Syrien. p. 80]</ref>

In 1870, French explorer [[Victor Guérin]] visited the site.<ref>Guérin, 1875, pp. [https://archive.org/stream/descriptiongogr04gugoog#page/n346/mode/1up 321]–339</ref> The village of Qisarya ({{langx|ar|قيسارية}}) was allocated in 1880 to [[Bushnak]] ([[Bosniak]]) immigrants from [[Bosnia vilayet|Bosnia]].<ref>Oliphant, 1887, p. [https://archive.org/stream/haifaorlifeinmod00olipuoft#page/182/mode/1up &nbsp;182]</ref> The Bosniaks had emigrated to the area after [[Ottoman Bosnia]] was [[Treaty of Berlin (1878)|occupied]] by [[Austria-Hungary]] in 1878. According to [[historian]] [[Roy Marom]],<blockquote>Fifty families of Bosnian refugees, mostly from [[Mostar]], the main urban center of [[Bosnia and Herzegovina]], settled among the ruins of Caesarea, renaming it with the Arabic name of Qisarya. Using the ancient masonry found on site, the settlers constructed a modern town with spacious accommodations and broad intersecting streets, according to traditional Bosnian town-plans. The town had two mosques, a [[caravanserai]], a [[marketplace]], a residence for the ''mudir'', a harbor and [[Customs|custom]] offices. Qisarya attracted high-ranking Bosnian functionaries who established estates near Qisarya. The town was declared the seat of a ''mudirieh'' (a minor administrative division).<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Marom |first=Roy |date=2023-03-09 |title=Hadera: transnational migrations from Eastern Europe to Ottoman Palestine and the glocal origins of the Zionist-Arab conflict |url=https://doi.org/10.1080/00263206.2023.2183499 |journal=Middle Eastern Studies |volume=60 |issue=2 |pages=250–270 |doi=10.1080/00263206.2023.2183499 |s2cid=257443159 |issn=0026-3206}}</ref></blockquote>A population list from about 1887 showed that Caesarea had 670 inhabitants, in addition to 265 Muslim inhabitants, who were noted as "Bosniaks".<ref>Schumacher, 1888, p. [https://archive.org/stream/quarterlystateme19pale#page/n206/mode/1up  181]</ref>

Petersen, visiting the place in 1992, noted that the 19th-century houses were built in blocks, generally one story high, with the exception of the house of the governor. Some houses on the western side of the village, near the sea, had survived. There were several mosques in the village in the 19th century, but only one ("The Bosnian mosque") has survived. This mosque, located at the southern end of the city, next to the harbour, is described as a simple stone building with a red-tiled roof and a cylindrical minaret.<ref name=Petersen129ff>Petersen, 2001, pp. [https://www.academia.edu/21619490/Gazetteer_3._A-C  129]-130</ref>