Gadara (disambiguation)

Gadara is the name of several ancient cities from the southern Levant, now in ruins, the best known being today in northern Jordan. Gadara may refer to:

  • 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[1][2]
  • Gezer, ancient city, today in Israel, Hellenised to Gadara (see works of Josephus; sometimes amended there to Gazara)

See also
  • GDRT, vocalised by historians as Gadarat, king of Aksum (c. 200 CE)

References
  1. MacAdam, Henry Innes (2018). Geography, Urbanisation and Settlement Patterns in the Roman Near East. Routledge Revivals. Variorum Collected Studies, CS 735 (reprint of 2002 Ashgate ed.). Routledge. p. VI/16. ISBN 978-1-138-74056-3. Retrieved 5 June 2020.
  2. Rocca, Samuel (2015). Herod's Judaea: A Mediterranean State in the Classic World. Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism / Texte Und Studien Zum Antiken Judentum, Volume 122 (reprint of 2008 Mohr Siebeck ed.). Wipf and Stock. p. 188. ISBN 9781498224543. ISSN 0721-8753. Retrieved 5 June 2020.
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