Gadara (disambiguation) explained
Gadara is the name of several ancient cities from the Southern Levant, now in ruins, the best known being today in northern Jordan. Cities with the name include:
- Gadara, Hellenistic city, for a long time part of the Decapolis, its ruins located today at Umm Qais in northern Jordan
- Gadara or Gadora of Peraea, ancient city identified with Tell el-Jadur near Salt, Jordan
- Gezer (no consensus). Ancient city, today in Israel, possibly Hellenised to Gadara (see works of Josephus; amended in Loeb edition to Gazara)
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