Gadara/Pompeia

settlement · 330 BC – 640 AD

A Ptolemaic foundation in northern Jordan that eventually became part of the Decapolis.

Coordinates

32.65608, 35.67726

Also known as

Gadara (en), Gadara, Mkês (ara), Pompeia, Seleucia (lat), Umm Qais (ara), Αντιόχεια της Σεμίραμης (grc), Γάδαρα (grc), Σελεύκεια (grc), τὰ Γάδαρα (grc), Гадара (rus), Умм Кайс (rus), גדר (he), גדר‎ (heb), أم قيس (ara)

Dating

attested

Sources

• Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places · CC BY 3.0
  Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places (CC BY 3.0)
• OpenHistoricalMap · CC0 1.0
  © OpenHistoricalMap contributors
• iDAI.gazetteer (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut) · CC BY
  iDAI.gazetteer, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut (CC BY)
• Wikidata · CC0 1.0
  Wikidata (CC0)
• Wikidata · CC0 1.0
  Wikidata (CC0)
• GeoNames · CC BY 4.0
  © GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)

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