Gadara

Irbid Governorate · Jordan

Gadara, Jordan
Photo: Samir I. Sharbaty, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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A Decapolis city on a ridge with colonnaded streets, two theatres and a basalt-paved main road overlooking the Sea of Galilee. Its cool hilltop was praised in antiquity for philosophers and poets.

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