Gomorrah

Gomorrah or Gomorrha both: gəmôrˈə, –mŏrˈə [key], in the Bible, city, destroyed with Sodom. Some have speculated that the ruins southeast of the Dead Sea at Numeira, discovered in 1973, may be those of the city.

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