🏛️ Tiberias-Gadara
Greco-Roman city ruins on the eastern shore of the Sea of Galilee
📌 Fast Facts
- Located in northwestern Jordan, overlooking the Sea of Galilee (Lake Tiberias)
- Founded in the 1st century BCE as a Hellenistic city under Seleucid rule
- Renamed and expanded under Roman rule, becoming a major regional center
- Archaeological remains include theaters, temples, baths, and residential structures from the Roman period
Gadara, known in antiquity as Umm Qais in its local Arabic designation, was a prominent Greco-Roman city situated ...