Basalt Stone Blocks

Gadara

a Greco-Roman city

--- described by Greek historian, Polybius, in 218 B.C.

--- became a city of the Roman Decapolis in 63 B.C.

--- birthplace of Meleager, one of the most admired Greek poets, in the 1st century B.C.

--- likely place where Jesus drove demons out of a man into swine in the 1st century A.D.

 

Umm Qais, Irbid Governorate

Jordan

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