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Gadăra

τὰ Γάδαρα). A large fortified city of Palestine, situated on an eastern tributary of the Jordan. Vespasian, in his first campaign in Galilee, took it, slaughtered the inhabitants, and burned the city (Ioseph. B. I. iii. 7 1).

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