UNESCO
tentative
tentative
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Where in the world
Jordan
The site
Gadara is an ancient Hellenistic city in what is now Jordan, founded around 300 BCE and later a member of the Decapolis league. Its ruins lie at Umm Qais, perched on a hill 378 metres above sea level, commanding a sweeping view over the Yarmouk River gorge toward the Golan Heights and the Sea of Galilee. Occupied by Greeks and Romans until 749 CE, it now holds a place on UNESCO's tentative list.
Field notes
- types
- City
- built
- 300 BCE
- occupied
- 300 BCE — 749 CE
- country
- Jordan
Figures of this place
Laid to rest, born or died at Gadara
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Philodemusborn here1st-century BC Greek Epicurean philosopher and poetMO✶
Meleager of Gadaraborn here1st-century BC Greek poetA✶
Apsinesborn hereGreek rhetoricianPO✶
Philon of Gadaraborn heremathematician from ancient Greece
