Where Pergamon was
An important ancient settlement, located at modern Bergama in Turkey. It was first described in Xenophon's Anabasis and was later used as a treasury under Lysimachus. Pergamum became the administrative capital and principal city of the Attalid kingdom and dynasty (282-133 BCE) and was briefly the first capital of the Roman province of Asia. It later was a seat of a Christian bishopric and is listed in Revelation as one of the seven churches of Asia. It was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2014 under "Pergamon and its Multi-Layered Cultural Landscape". Athenaeum places it in the Anatolia region. The source gives a located position.
Periods the source attests
These are the historical periods in which the source records the place. A gap is not evidence that it was empty.
- Bronze Age
- Archaic Greece
- Classical Greece
- Hellenistic world
- Roman world
- Late antiquity
Its names
The source lists these other names and spellings for Pergamon.
- Pergamum
- Pergamon, Pergamos
- Πέργαμον
- Bergama
- Barġama, Barghama
- Berġama, Berghama
About the illustration
Generated historical interpretation. Not an archaeological reconstruction.
Questions about ancient Pergamon
Where does the information about Pergamon come from?
From the place's record in the Pleiades gazetteer, with its references, names and periods kept as the source gives them.
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