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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GinoLR, post: 8216813, member: 128351&quot;]The ancient Greeks rarely mentioned a city by its name, they more often mentioned it by the name of its citizens. Thucydides did not say &quot;Athens&quot; or &quot;Sparta&quot;, he said &quot;the Athenians&quot;, &quot;the Lacedaemonians&quot;. <i>Gadara</i> was the name of the city, its citizens were the <i>Gadarenoi </i>or <i>Gadareis</i>, genitive plural <i>Gadareon</i>. <i>Gadareon </i>means &quot;(money) of the citizens of Gadara&quot;. </p><p>Gadara was a Greek city in the middle of a Jewish and Syrian inhabited land, overlooking the Lake of Tiberias. Today it is called Umm Qays (Jordan) and you can visit the ruins of the ancient city. In Antiquity, because the Gadarenes were Greeks, they ate pork and raised pigs. The episode in the Gospels in which Jesus exorcizes demons (Mark 5:1-20; Matthew 8:28-34; Luke 8:26-39) took place in Gadara, not Gerasa.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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