Editing Caesarea Maritima (section)

====British Mandate of Palestine====
{{Infobox settlement
| name                    = Qisarya
| native_name             = قيسارية
| native_name_lang        = ar
| other_name              = Qisarya
| settlement_type         = Village
<!-- images, nickname, motto -->
| image_skyline           = Caesarea Maritima BW 2010-09-23 09-54-00.JPG 
| imagesize               = 200
| image_caption           = The Bosnian Mosque at Qisarya
<!-- maps and coordinates -->
| pushpin_mapsize         = 200
| grid_name               = [[Palestine grid|Palestine&nbsp;grid]]
| grid_position           = 140/212
<!-- location -->
| subdivision_type        = [[Geopolitical entity]]
| subdivision_name        = [[Mandatory Palestine]]
| subdivision_type1       = [[Districts of Mandatory Palestine|Subdistrict]]
| subdivision_name1       = [[Haifa Subdistrict, Mandatory Palestine|Haifa]]
<!-- established -->
| established_title1      = Date of depopulation
| established_date1       = February 1948<ref>Morris, 2004, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=uM_kFX6edX8C&pg=PR18 xviii], village #177. Also gives the cause for depopulation</ref>
| established_title2      = Repopulated dates
<!-- area -->
| area_footnotes          = <ref name="p.49"/>
| unit_pref               = dunam
| area_total_dunam        = 31,786
<!-- population -->
| population_as_of        = 1945
| population_total        = 960
| population_footnotes = <ref name="p.49">Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. ''Village Statistics, April, 1945.'' Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. [http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20I/Haifa/Page-049.jpg 49]</ref><ref name=1945p14/>
<!-- blank fields (section 1) -->
| blank_name_sec1         = Cause(s) of depopulation
| blank_info_sec1         = Expulsion by [[Yishuv]] forces
| blank3_name_sec1        = Current Localities
| blank3_info_sec1        = Caesarea
}}
 
In the [[1922 census of Palestine]], conducted by the [[Mandate for Palestine|British Mandate]] authorities, Caesarea had a population of 346; 288 Muslims, 32 Christians and 26 Jews,<ref>Barron, 1923, Table XI, Sub-district of Haifa, p. [https://archive.org/stream/PalestineCensus1922/Palestine%20Census%20%281922%29#page/n36/mode/1up 34]</ref> where the Christians were 6 Orthodox, 3 Syrian Orthodox, 3 Roman Catholics, 4 [[Melkite]]s, 2 Syrian Catholics and 14 [[Maronite]].<ref>Barron, 1923, Table XVI, p. [https://archive.org/stream/PalestineCensus1922/Palestine%20Census%20%281922%29#page/n51/mode/1up 49]</ref> The population had increased in the [[1931 census of Palestine|1931 census]] to 706; 19 Christians, 4 Druse and 683 Muslims, in 143 houses.<ref>Mills, 1932, p. [https://archive.org/details/CensusOfPalestine1931.PopulationOfVillagesTownsAndAdministrativeAreas 95]</ref>

A Jewish settlement, '''Kibbutz Sdot Yam''', was established {{convert|1|km}} south of the Muslim town in 1940. The Muslim village declined in economic importance and many of Qisarya's Muslim inhabitants left in the mid-1940s, when the British extended the [[Palestine Railways]] which bypassed the shallow-draft port. Qisarya had a population of 960 in [[Village Statistics, 1945|1945 statistics]],<ref name="1945p14" /> with Qisarya's population composition 930 Muslims and 30 Christians in 1945.<ref name="p.49" /><ref name="1945p14">Department of Statistics, 1945, p.[http://cs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/yabber/census/VSpages/VS1945_p14.jpg 14]</ref> In 1944/45 a total of 18 [[dunam|dunum]]s of Muslim village land was used for citrus and bananas, 1,020 dunums were used for cereals, while 108 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards,<ref>Khalidi, 1992, p. 183</ref><ref>Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. ''Village Statistics, April, 1945.'' Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. [http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20II/Haifa/Page-091.jpg 91]</ref> while 111 dunams were built-up (urban) land.<ref>Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. ''Village Statistics, April, 1945.'' Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. [http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20III/Haifa/Page-141.jpg 141]</ref>

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File:קיסריה - מראה-JNF025733.jpeg|Caesarea 1947
File:קיסריה - עתיקות.-JNF038592.jpeg|Caesarea 1947
File:Caesarea 1942.jpg|Caesarea 1942 1:20,000
File:Caesarea 1945.jpg|Caesarea 1945 1:250,000
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