Umm Qais (Arabic: أم قيس, lit. 'Mother of Qais'), also known as Qays, is a town in northern Jordan principally known for its proximity to the ruins of...

The Umm Qais Museum (Arabic: متحف أم قيس) is museum in Irbid Governorate, Jordan. The museum is dedicated to exhibiting and conserving artifacts from the...

Kundum, a town Umm Qais, a town Umm al Qanafidh, a town Umm Shujayrah al Gharbiyah, a town Umm Zuwaytinah, a town Umm al Maradim Island Umm an Namil Island...

between British officials and the notables of Transjordan occurred in Umm Qais nearly a month later on 2 September. Major Fitzroy Somerset received a...

and present Latin Catholic titular see. Its ruins are today located at Umm Qais, a small town in the Bani Kinanah Department and Irbid Governorate in Jordan...

(GAD-ə-reen) may refer to: Of or relating to Gadara, ancient city; ruins at Umm Qais in Jordan Miracle of the Gadarene swine, a miracle of Jesus Gadarene Lake...

kept separate from that of Palestine. The second meeting took place in Umm Qais on 2 September, where the British government representative Major Fitzroy...

turmoil in the early 2010s from the Arab Spring. The trail stretches from Umm Qais in northern Jordan to the coastal city of Aqaba in its south. The trail...

in Syria), Abila (at Wadi Queilebh in Jordan), and Gadara (modern-day Umm Qais in Jordan). The aqueduct has the longest known tunnel of the Classical...

Antiochia Ptolemais, now Acre, Israel or Akko Umm Qais or Antiochia Semiramis, also called Gadara, now Umm Qais Antiochia in Pieria, now Arwad Antiochia in...

Philadelphia Capital of modern Jordan Amman, Jordan Gerasa Jerash, Jordan Gadara Umm Qais, Jordan Pella West of Irbid Tabaqat Fahl, Jordan Dion (Tell Ashari) Sometimes...

only to find they have died. Abu Qais: The first of the three Palestinian men migrating to Kuwait introduced. Abu Qais is the oldest character who has...

overlooking the Dead Sea where John the Baptist was imprisoned and executed and Umm Qais (Gadara) where Jesus is thought to have expelled demons out of a man near...

Mamluke Mosque and Saham Umayyed Mosque. The city of Um Qais (Gadara) A Byzantine church in Um Qais A Byzantine site in Ar Ramtha Irbid Governorate is located...

Juba, Kodana, Ufaniyah, Ruwayhinah, Nabe' al-Sakhar, Trinjah, Umm al-A'zam, and Umm Batna. The population of the Quneitra Governorate numbers 79,000...

undertook a rehabilitation and restoration project at the heritage site of Umm Qais in northern Jordan. The goal was to adapt existing structures for economic...

city, for a long time part of the Decapolis, its ruins located today at Umm Qais in northern Jordan Gadara or Gadora of Peraea, ancient city identified...

on the Golan Heights. Then he ambushed Alexander Jannaeus near Gadara (Umm Qais), just east of the Sea of Galilee. Using camel cavalry, he forced Jannaeus...

mentioned by Pliny t. E. Jordan Philadelphia (Amman) Gerasa (Jerash) Gadara (Umm Qais) Region Ampeloessa/Capitolias (Beit Ras) Region Ampeloessa /Abila (in Wadi...

east, on the River Yarmouk near Gadara (in the Middle Ages "Jadar", now Umm Qais), thus acquiring the name Magdala Gadar. Magdala Nunayya—There was another...

Abdullah I bin al-Hussein 10 dinars 141 × 74 mm Blue Talal bin Abdullah Umm Qais Museum Commemorative stamp issued for the establishment of the first Jordanian...

the Wayback Machine from Research projects | geographical order | Gadara/Umm Qais (Jordanien) Archived 2012-04-12 at the Wayback Machine at Deutsches Archäologisches...

former settlement near modern Irbid, Jordan Seleucia, a former name of Umm Qais, Jordan Seleucia ad Belum, later Seleucobelus, a former settlement at the...

the west Iron Gate to the east Silver Gate. In Roman Gadara, present-day Umm Qais, in Jordan, the decumanus runs east–west for approximately one kilometre...

Amathus (Perea) and Gadara (either in Perea at Al-Salt, in the Decapolis at Umm Qais, or at biblical Gezer in Judea, mentioned by Josephus under a Hellenised...

suggest that the wine served to Jesus during the Last Supper came from Umm Qais in Northern Jordan. The modern wine industry in Jordan was established...

interested in seeing the northern Jordan Valley; visiting Umm Qais, Beit Ras (Capitolias), Pella, Ajloun, Umm el-Jimal and other historical sites; or traveling...

archaeological research. Today they are the modern towns of Jerash and Umm Qais. A third city, Hippos, was similar in character to Gadara and Gerasa, and...

Greek Seleucid Empire, slaying King Antiochus XII Dionysus, at modern-day Umm Qais in Jordan. The First Mithridatic War comes to an end. Julius Caesar marries...

Burckhardt in 1812. It was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1985. Umm Qais, a town on the site of the ruined Hellenistic–Roman city Jerash is famous...