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Arabs were Semites They called upon the ancient name (Jracha) or (Jursc), which means "place of dense trees." The Greeks have named it (Gerasa) and that was in the Hellenistic period, and so were the Romans, where she was one of the most importantcities of the Decapolis (ten cities), founded by Pompey in 63 BC in northern Jordan to face the power of the Nabateans in the south. And the name (Pompey the East), the ratio of him. As I mentioned Gerasa in some Nabatean inscriptions. In the era of the Seleucidswas dubbed (Antioch, on the River gold), as the city flourished in the Umayyad period, but the Arabs re-renamed (Jerash) at the end of the nineteenth century.