Gadara
Sign in to saveGadara ( or ; ), in some texts Gedaris, was an ancient Hellenistic city in what is now Jordan, for a long time member of the Decapolis city league, a former bishopric and present Latin Catholic titular see.
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- File:Umm Qais-13.jpg
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- Church terrace at ancient Gadara
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- Jordan
- Ancient site.condition
- Ruins
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15 sectionsContents
- History
- Hellenistic period
- Roman period
- Byzantine and Early Muslim periods
- Gadara in the Gospels
- Ecclesiastical history
- Titular see
- {{anchor|Notable inhabitants}}Notable inhabitants
- Rediscovery
- Description
- Tourism
- References
- Citations
- General bibliography
- External links
Gadara ( or ; ), in some texts Gedaris, was an ancient Hellenistic city in what is now Jordan, for a long time member of the Decapolis city league, a former bishopric and present Latin Catholic titular see.
Its ruins are today located at Umm Qais, a small town in the Bani Kinanah Department and Irbid Governorate in Jordan, near its borders with Israel and Syria. It stood on a hill above sea level overlooking the Yarmouk River gorge, with the Golan Heights and the Sea of Galilee well visible to the north and northwest.