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Bergama (inhabited place) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 39 08 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 39.1333 decimal degrees |
| Long: 027 10 00 E degrees minutes |
Long: 27.1667 decimal degrees |
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Note: Under Persian rule 5th century BCE; prosperous Hellenistic city during rule of Eumenes I and Attalids (282-133 BCE); bequeathed by Attalus III to Rome 133 BCE; to Byzantines after fall of Rome; passed to Ottomans during the 14th century; the ruins a "text" of Hellenistic art. |
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| Bergama (preferred,C,V)
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| Pergame (C,O)
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| Pergamos (H,V)
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| Pergamum (H,V)
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| Pergamon (H,V)
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| Pergamus (H,V)
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| Pergamum Asiae (H,V)
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| Teuthrania (H,V)
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Asia (continent) (P) |
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İzmir (province) (P) |
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Bergama (inhabited place) (P) |
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| inhabited place (preferred, C) |
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was important ancient center |
| town (C) |
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| archaeological site (C) |
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excavations began in 1878; part of the altar now in the Pergamon Museum, East Berlin |
| city (H) |
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Related geographic places: |
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| capital of .... |
Pergamon .......... (former nation/state/empire) |
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(World, Asia) [7520097] |
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