Jerash
Jerash
Brief description
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Jerash is known for the ruins of the Greco-Roman city of Gerasa, also referred to as Antioch on the Golden River. Jerash is considered one of the most important and best preserved Roman cities in the Near East. It was a city of the Decapolis, a group of ten cities on the eastern frontier of the Roman Empire.