🏛️ Pella-Gerasa
Greco-Roman ruins in the northern Jordan Valley
📌 Fast Facts
- Located in Irbid Governorate, northern Jordan, near the Syrian border
- Member of the Decapolis, a confederation of ten Greco-Roman cities
- Founded in the Hellenistic period; flourished under Roman rule
- Inhabited from approximately the 4th century BCE through the Islamic period
Pella, known in antiquity as Pella-Gerasa, occupies a strategic position in the northern Jordan Valley overlooking the Jordan ...