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. 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^[1]^[2]
Gezer (no consensus). Ancient city, today in Israel, possibly Hellenised to Gadara (see works of Josephus; amended in Loeb edition to Gazara)

References

^ 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.
^ 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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[MacAdam-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.

[Rocca-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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