Antipatris

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From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Antipatris
     a city built by Herod the Great, and called by this name in
     honour of his father, Antipater. 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. It is identified with the modern, Ras-el-Ain, where rise
     the springs of Aujeh, the largest springs in Palestine.
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Antipatris, for, or against the father