Pergamon

Pergamon

Pergamon ranks 1,289th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Lynn, Massachusetts, Wakayama (city), and Galilee. Memorable people born in Pergamon include Galen, Attalus I, and Philippikos Bardanes. Memorable people who died in Pergamon include Attalus I, Attalus II Philadelphus, and Antipas of Pergamum. Pergamon has been the birth place of many politicians, and physicians and the death place of many politicians, and religious figures. Pergamon is located in Türkiye.

Pergamon or Pergamum, also referred to by its modern Greek form Pergamos (Πέργαμος), was a rich and powerful ancient Greek city in Aeolis. It is located 26 kilometres (16 mi) from the modern coastline of the Aegean Sea on a promontory on the north side of the river Caicus and northwest of the modern city of Bergama, Turkey. Read more on Wikipedia