Located among the well-watered fields of northern Jordan, the ancient city of Abila was once part of the Decapolis—a league of ten cities that formed a Hellenistic or Greco-Roman confederation located south of the Sea of Galilee in the Transjordan. Occupied from the Early Bronze Age down into the Middle Islamic periods, Abila was located on a strategic route from Nabataea to Damascus and became a very important city in antiquity |