Gadara
Ancient city · Jordan
- Abandoned
- 749
- Founded
- 300 BC
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 32.656, 35.678
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: archaeological site in Jordan, former city of the ancient Decapolis
History
Gadara, 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.