Gadara
Sign in to saveAlso known as Gad'a-ra, Umm Qais, Mint of Gadara
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.
Key facts
- Ancient site.image
- File:Umm Qais-13.jpg
- Ancient site.caption
- Church terrace at ancient Gadara
- Ancient site.map_type
- Jordan
- Ancient site.condition
- Ruins
via Wikipedia infobox
~9 min read
Encyclopedic overview
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gadara” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
Gallery (6)
On the map
2 mapped locations