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Umm Qais

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Full name	Umm Qais
Native name	أم قيس
Other name	Gadara (Ancient Greek)
Settlement type	Town
Country	Jordan
Governorate	Irbid
Other information
Time zone	UTC+2 (UTC+2)
- Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (UTC+3)
Area code	+(962)2

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Umm Qais ( ) is a town in Jordan located on the site of the ruined Hellenistic-Roman city of Gadara ( , gad´a-ra or גדר, ga-der; Gádara). The town was also called Antiochia or Antiochia Semiramis (Ancient Greek: Ἀντιόχεια Σεμίραμις) and Seleucia. Gadara was a semi-autonomous city of the Roman Decapolis.

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