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The city's ruins can still be seen a kilometer to the south of Hamat Gader, within the current Jordanian border. During the Roman era (2nd century AD) the site served as a Roman bathing area and was called Gader. Gader was included in "the treaty of ten cities" 'Decapolis'. An ancient synagogue, erected on the site during the Byzantine period (4th-7th centuries), is the only evidence which remains of the existence of a Jewish community.