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JERASH & NORTHERN
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Second only to Petra in tourist appeal, the ancient city of Jerash is remarkable for its unbroken chain of human occupation. Here at a well-watered site in the hills of Gilead, you find remains from Neolithic times, as well as Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Omayyad and others. Jerash's golden age, however, arrived with Roman rule.
Today it is acknowledged as one of the best preserved Roman provincial towns in the world. Jerash was a member of the Decapolis, a dynamic commercial league of ten Graeco-Roman cities. When Emperor Hadrian visited Jerash in AD 129, it was already thriving. To honor its guest, the city raised a Triumphal Arch, just one part of a massive building program.
