Gadara

Gadara, formerly a flourishing town of Syria, in the Decapolis, a few miles SE. of the Sea of Galilee, but now a group of ruins. It was the capital of Peraea, and in all probability the chief town in the New Testament 'country of the Gadarenes' (cf. Mark, v.). It endured sieges by Alexander Jannæus and Vespasian, but fell into decay after the Mohammedan conquest.