Umm Qais is the site of the ancient Graeco-Roman city of Gadara. It overlooks the Sea of Galilee (Lake of Tiberias), The Yarmouk River and the Golan Heights.
According to the Bible, it was at Gadara that Jesus cast demons out of two men into a herd of pigs, and the site was an early Christian place of pilgrimage, although an alternative Israeli site on the eastern shore of Lake Galilee also claims this miracle.
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