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Gadara

Also known as Umm Qais

Gadara was a Hellenistic and Roman city of the Decapolis on a ridge above the Yarmouk valley, at modern Umm Qais in northern Jordan. It was famous as a centre of learning, the home of the satirist Menippus, the poet Meleager and the philosopher Philodemus. Its ruins include theatres, a colonnaded street and baths, built in local black basalt and limestone.

Gadara
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Decapolis (Levant)

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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Gadara. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/gadara
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