Gerasa
Ancient city · Judaea
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 34.803, 32.998
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: Gerasa was an ancient Jewish town mentioned by the historian Josephus as being sacked by the Imperial Roman army under Lucius Annius during the First Jewish-Roman War.
History
Gerasa was an ancient Jewish town mentioned by the historian Josephus as being sacked by the Imperial Roman army under Lucius Annius during the First Jewish-Roman War.