Pergamon (tur)

Pergamon

Pergamon ranks 1,113th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Namur, Marburg, and Ōtsu. Memorable people born in Pergamon include Galen, Philippikos Bardanes, and Attalus I. Memorable people who died in Pergamon include Attalus I, Attalus II Philadelphus, and Philetaerus. 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 Turkey.

Pergamon or Pergamum, also referred to by its modern Greek form Pergamos (Πέργαμος), was a rich and powerful ancient Greek city in Mysia. 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