Antipatris was a city built by Herod the Great, and named in honor of his father, Antipater II of Judea. It lay between Caesarea Maritima and Lydda, on the great Roman road from Caesarea to Jerusalem,[1] and figures prominently in Roman-era history. Today, the nearby river bears the town's old namesake in the Arabic tongue (Arabic: نهر أبو فطرس‎, romanized: Nahr Abū Fuṭrus).