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Gerasa
Arabic JERASH
Hellenised city in Syria, one of the ten
known as the Decapolis. The miracle of
the Gadarene swine probably did not take
place here, although
there is some confusion of spelling between manuscripts.
Gadara was the home of the mathematician Nicomachus.
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