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	UM QAIS GADARA
		Gadara was renowned for its cosmopolitan atmosphere, attracting an array of writers, artists, philosophers and poets.
		Gadara was blessed with fertile soil, abundant water, and a location astride a number of key trading routes connecting Asia and Europe.
		Gadara was overrun by the Seleucid ruler Antiochus III in 218 BC.
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	Gadara - Walking in Their Sandals - location profile
		Gadara is located on a steep hill, six miles southeast of the Sea of Galilee and two miles above the Yarmuk River Valley.
		Gadara was one of the Decapolis cities' Greek-styled city-states founded as a result of Alexander the Great's extension of his empire into the region.
		Matthew's reference to the men as coming from Gadara is consistent with the discovery of coins of that city that depict a ship and contain the word "Gadara." Further, Josephus mentions that Gadara possessed territory on the shores of the Sea of Galilee.
	www.ancientsandals.com /overviews/gadara.htm (816 words)

	kursi
		The "Gadarenes" (meaning "a stranger drawing near") were the residents of Gadara, one of the cities of the Decapolis and the capital of the Roman province of Perea, controlled by Herod Antipas.
		Gadara (also called Gergasa or Gerasa in various manuscripts) was located on the summit of a mountain about 6 miles southeast of the Sea of Galilee.
		Gadara, which is mentioned in the Gospels only in connection with the healing of the demon-possessed men (man), was dominant enough to give its name to the entire area (thus the term "region of the Gadarenes" in Matthew's account).
	www.ourfatherlutheran.net /biblehomelands/galilee/kursi.htm (804 words)

	JewishEncyclopedia.com - DECAPOLIS, THE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		18, § 1), Gadara, and Hippos ("Vita," §§ 65, 74) as in the Decapolis.
		Gadara and Hippos were given to Herod (Josephus, "Ant." xv.
		The Decapolis must have existed as a special district in the second century, since the geographer Ptolemy speaks of it as such; when, however, the province of Arabia was organized (106), several of those cities came gradually to be included in that province—for example, Gerasa and Philadelphia (Ammian.
	www.jewishencyclopedia.com /view.jsp?artid=195&letter=D&search=Pella (488 words)

	Gadara: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		This Gadara must be distinguished from Gadara, the capital of Perea, which was destroyed by Vespasian in 68 b.c.
		...western border; Samaria and the territory of Scythopolis as the southern border; Gaulanitis and the territory of Hippos and Gadara as the eastern border; and the territory of Tyre as the northern border.
		GADARA gad r, ancient city of the Decapolis, the modern Umm Qays (Jordan), SE of the Sea of Galilee.
	www.questia.com /library/encyclopedia/gadara.jsp?l=G&p=1 (1070 words)

	WHTL-1558.doc (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The name Gadara derives from a Semitic term meaning "fortification", and it is likely that a pre-Hellenistic stronghold secured this stretch of the land route between southern Syria and the north Palestine coastal ports.
		Gadara first appears in historical record shortly after the conquest of the region by the forces of Alexander the Great in 333 BC.
		Alexander's successors in Egypt, the Ptolemies, refounded Gadara as a military colony along the Yarmouk Valley frontier with their perennial rivals the Seleucids, Alexander's successors who were based in Antioch, north Syria.
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	Sites
		On a plateau overlooking the north Jordan Valley and the glinting blue waters of Lake Tiberias are the ruins of Qais, ancient Roman Gadara.
		Gadara was also the home and birthplace of many Roman writers and philosophers who were inspired by the beauty of the panoramic views that spread out all around them.
		Gadara was well known for its buildings during the period of the Roman Empire, but is perhaps more eminent for the orators, artists, poets and philosophers who originated there and rose to fame.
	www.mota.gov.jo /CAT6_06.HTM (644 words)

	Bible Study - Gadara
		Gadara was one of the Decapolis, or "Ten Cities," that were originally inhabited primarily by Greek people who settled in the region after the time of Alexander the Great's conquest (see Ancient Empires - Greece).
		Gadara was located east of The Jordan River on a mountain about 6 miles / 10 kilometers south-east of The Sea Of Galilee.
		The people of Gadara were known as Gadarenes, although the general area was also known as the "country of the Gerasenes" after the city of Gerasa which was about 45 miles / 73 kilometers farther south.
	www.keyway.ca /htm2001/20010621.htm (726 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Gadara
		A titular see of Palaestina Prima; there were two sees of this name, one in Palaestina Prima, the other in Palaestina Secunda; it is therefore difficult to ascertain to which of the two cities the known bishops belonged (Le Quien, III, 597).
		Gadara in Palaestina Secunda is to-day known as Oum-Keiss, beyond the Jordan, while Gadara in Palaestina Prima, the subject of this article, has not been identified.
		There was a Gader (Joshua 12:13) whose king was defeated by Josue, a place which is also mentioned in I Par., ii, 51; Jos., xv, 58.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/06332a.htm (186 words)

	Um Qais
		Gadara was also the resort of choice for Romans vacationing in the nearby Himmet Gader Springs.
		Soon after, the fortunes of Gadara improved rapidly and building was undertaken on a large scale, carried out for the love of Pompey's freed man, Demetrius, who had been born there.
		Meleagros compared Gadara with Athens, which testifies to the city's status as a creative centre of Hellenism in the ancient Near East.
	www.tourism.jo /HistoricalSites/Umm_Qais.asp (1620 words)

	Gadara (International Standard Bible Encyclopedia) :: Bible Tools (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The city of Gadara is represented today by the ruins of Umm Qeis on the heights south of el-Chummeh--the hot springs in the Yarmuk valley--about 6 miles Southeast of the Sea of Galilee.
		It maybe taken as certain that the jurisdiction of Gadara, as the chief city in these regions, extended over the country East of the Sea, including the lands of the subordinate town, GERASA (which see).
		The name Gadara appears to be Semitic It is still heard in Jedur, which attaches to the ancient rock tombs, with sarcophagi, to the East of the present ruins.
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	Umm Qais - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gadara was a semi-autonomous city of the Roman Decapolis.
		It may be taken as certain that the jurisdiction of Gadara, as the chief city in these regions, extended over the country East of the Sea, including the lands of the subordinate town, Gerasa.
		Gadara was one of the Ten Cities of the Decapolis.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Umm_Qais (1575 words)

	Gadara
		Gadara was a typical Hellenistic city that became a center of Greek culture under the Seleucids.
		In good satiric style Mark 5 portrays Jesus as expelling a demon named "Legion" — the basic unit of the Roman army — from the region of the "Gerasenes" (an inland city-state of the Decapolis south of Gadara high in the Jordanian mountains, miles from any major body of water).
		Matthew sets this incident closer to the Sea of Galilee in the territory of the "Gadarenes." Like the satires of Menippus, however, the setting of this exorcism story is purely imaginative, since there are no cliffs in the region of Gadara, much less Gerasa, that border on a lake.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/Society_&_Culture/geo/Gadara.html (252 words)

	Umm Qais
		The modern town of Umm Qais is the site of the ancient Greco-Roman town of Gadara, one of the cities of the Decapolis and, according to the Bible, the place where Jesus cast out the devil from two men into a herd of pigs (Matthew 8: 28-34).
		Like Pella, its sister Decapolis city, Gadara was blessed with fertile soil, abundant water, and a location astride a number of key trading routes connecting Asia and Europe.
		When the Romans under Pompey conquered the East and formed the Decapolis, the fortunes of Gadara, taken in 63 BC, improved rapidly and building was undertaken on a large scale.
	www.jordanbeauty.com /UmmQais.html (482 words)

	Gadara (WebBible Encyclopedia) - ChristianAnswers.Net
		Mark (5:1) and Luke (8:26-39) describe the miracle of the healing of the demoniac (Matthew [8:28-34] says two demoniacs) as having been wrought "in the country of the Gadarenes," thus describing the scene generally.
		The miracle could not have been wrought at Gadara itself, for between the lake and this town there is the deep, almost impassable ravine of the Hieromax (Jarmuk).
		"The most interesting remains of Gadara are its tombs, which dot the cliffs for a considerable distance round the city, chiefly on the northeast declivity; but many beautifully sculptured sarcophagi are scattered over the surrounding heights.
	www.christiananswers.net /dictionary/gadara.html (201 words)

	Gadara - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Gadara, ancient city of the Decapolis, the modern Umm Qays (Jordan), SE of the Sea of Galilee.
		This Gadara must be distinguished from Gadara, the capital of Perea, which was destroyed by Vespasian in 68 BC The terms Gadarenes, Gergesenes, and Gerasenes appear variously for the locale of the celebrated miracle of the possessed swine reported in the New Testament.
		They probably refer to an obscure town on the east shore of the lake.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-gadara.html (261 words)

	Gadara - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		GADARA, an ancient town of the Syrian Decapolis, the capital of Peraea, and the political centre of the small district of Gadaris.
		There is a confusion in the narrative of the healing of the demoniac between the very similar names Gadara, Gerasa and Gergesa; but the probabilities, both textual and geographical, are in favour of the reading of Mark (Gerasenes, ch.
		Gadara is now represented by Umm Kais, a group of ruins about 6 m.
	www.1911ency.org /G/GA/GADARA.htm (420 words)

	Embassy of The Hashemite Kingdom Of Jordan, The Hague - NL
		In ancient times, Gadara was strategically situated, laced by a number of key trading routes connecting Syria and Palestine.
		This town also flourished intellectually in the reign of Augustus and became distinguished for its cosmopolitan atmosphere, university's scholars, attracting writers, artists, philosophers and poets, the likes of satirist Menippos (2nd half of the 3rd century BC), the epigrammist Meleagros, and the rhetorician Theodoros (14-37 AD).
		Meleagros compared Gadara with Athens, which testifies to the city's status as a creative center of Hellenism in the ancient Near East.
	www.jordanembassy.nl /Gallery2006/html/ummqais.htm (500 words)

	THE TERROR OF GADARA
		Gadara is a beautiful seacoast community nestled against the Sea of Galilee.
		The story touches our life simply because the man is a type of one who has lost control of himself; he is the prey of morbid passions and delusions, he is miserably unhappy and restless, and an offense to all his neighbors.
		The records of modern medical psychology would produce many cases, milder perhaps than the story of the madman of Gadara, yet to a certain extent, parallel, in which a personality is torn and distracted between the warring elements in its own being.
	www.arm.org /gadara.htm (3916 words)

	The Keepers of the Herd of Swine (1890)
		Gadara was a commercial centre of some importance, and therefore, it may be assumed, Jews settled in it, as they settled in almost all considerable Gentile cities.
		I submit that, if Gadara had been a city of "Hebrews bound by the Mosaic law," the ravaging of their territory by their brother Jews, in revenge for the massacre of the Cæsarean Jews by the Gentile population of that place, would surely have been a somewhat unaccountable proceeding.
		For Josephus, Gadara is just as much a Gentile city as Ptolemais; it was reserved for his latest commentator, either ignoring, or ignorant of, all this, to tell us that Gadara had a Hebrew population, bound by the Mosaic law.
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	Umm Qais, Jordan
		Archaeological surveys indicate that Gadara was occupied as early as the 7th century BC.
		In 63 BC, Pompey liberated Gadara and joined it to the Roman league of ten cities, the Decapolis.
		During these early years of Roman rule, the Nabataeans (with their capital in Petra), controlled the trade routes as far north as Damascus.
	www.atlastours.net /jordan/umm_qais.html (533 words)

	Cryptozoology.com
		Gadara was the name an ancient Palestinian city, which people believe was in present day Jordan (Umm Q'ais).
		There are three other Gadaras, a lost city in Palestiana Prima (west of the R. Jordan), a shady University in Nigeria, and a suburb in Australia, none of which are relevent to this discussion.
		In the Catholic Bible, however, the word "Gadara" is replaced with the Greek name for the city "Gerasa", and there is not a direct refference as in the King James.
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	St. Pachomius Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The miracle of the Gadarene swine probably did not take place here, although there is some confusion of spelling between manuscripts.
		Gadara was a centre of high culture and home to a number of celebrated Greek philosophers; the Cynic school, sometimes thought to have influenced early Christianity, was particularly strong.
		According to Jewish legend, Gadara was named for the vineyard wall (gader) where Balaam's ass halted.
	www.voskrese.info /spl/Xgadara.html (79 words)

	Mark 5:1
		The story of the maniac of Gadara shows once again the power of Jesus and the compassion of Jesus and the ability of Jesus to help all of us, even the most troubled among human beings.
		The maniac of Gadara had come to a point where there was no help possible for him but from God and from Christ.
		The people came out of the city to see what was done, and they saw Jesus and they saw the man who was no longer a maniac, “sitting, and clothed, and in his right mind.” The fact that the man was sitting indicates that he was at peace.
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	Glossary
		Although Origen also objected to Gadara (which he says, was read by a few manuscripts) because neither lake nor overhanging banks were there, Josephus (Life, ix, 42) refers to Gadara as possessing territory "which lay on the frontiers of Tiberias" (= the Sea of Galilee).
		That this territory reached to the Sea may be inferred from the fact that ancient coins bearing the name Gadara often portray a ship.
		For this reason Matthew has transferred the story to Gadara, which is situated about six miles from the shore.
	www.bibletexts.com /glossary/gadara.htm (2127 words)

	Jordan - Touristic Sites - North and West of Amman
		Gadara was overrun by the Seleucid ruler Antiochus III in 218 BCE.
		When the Romans under Pompey conquered the East and formed the Decapolis, the fortunes of Gadara, taken in 63 BCE, improved rapidly and building was undertaken on a large scale.
		During the early part of Roman rule, the Nabateans (with their capital at Petra) controlled the trade routes as far north as Damascus.
	www.kinghussein.gov.jo /tourism3b.html (1374 words)

	Umm Qais, Baptism Land 2000 - Amman, Jordan
		Known as Gadara in ancient times, modern Umm Qays is in the northernmost part of Jordan, just south and east of the Sea of Galilee and the Golan.
		The biblical significance of Gadara comes from its claim to be the setting for the tale of the Gerasene swine, told in the gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke.
		In this story, Jesus crossed the Sea of Galilee and entered the country of the Gerasenes, where a man had been possessed by a multitude of evil spirits.
	holysites.com /ummqais.htm (251 words)

	GADARA - Online Information article about GADARA
		There is a confusion in the narrative of the healing of the demoniac between the very similar names Gadara, See also:
		miracle has nothing to do with Gadara, but took place at Kersa, on the eastern See also:
		Gadara is now represented by Umm Kais, a See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /FRA_GAE/GADARA.html (472 words)

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