where is gadara
Mother of Qais) is a town in northern Jordan principally known for its proximity to the ruins of the ancient Gadara.It lies in the Bani Kinanah Department and Irbid Governorate in the extreme northwest of the country, near Jordan's borders with Israel and Syria.n the original version, in the earlier Gospel of Mark, the incident is set in 'the territory of the Gerasenes', or Gerasa, around 50km southeast of the Sea of Galilee. The author of the Matthew Gospel appears to have moved the setting to Gadara to make it more plausible.