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Umm Qais



Umm Qais is a town in Jordan located on the site of the ruined Hellenistic-Roman city of Gadara (also called Antiochia, Antiochia Semiramis, and Seleucia). Gadara was a semi-autonomous city of the Roman Decapolis, a group of ten cities on the eastern frontier of the Roman Empire in Jordan, Syria, and Palestine.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umm_Qais
Category: city
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