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    The Kingdom of Pergamon, Pergamene Kingdom, or Attalid kingdom was a Greek state during the Hellenistic period that ruled much of the Western part of Asia...
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    the capital of the Kingdom of Pergamon in 281–133 BC under the Attalid dynasty, who transformed it into one of the major cultural centres of the Greek world...
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    Hellenistic kingdoms were established throughout West Asia (Seleucid Empire, Kingdom of Pergamon), Northeast Africa (Ptolemaic Kingdom) and South Asia...
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    Attalus III of Pergamon died, bequeathing his kingdom to Rome. However, Eumenes III, claiming to be the illegitimate son of a former Pergamon king, claimed...
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    the death of Attalus III. After Rome received the Kingdom of Pergamon in the will of Attalus III in the absence of an heir, they turned part of it into...
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    Library of Pergamum (Greek: Βιβλιοθήκη του Πέργαμον) is an ancient Greek building in Pergamon, Anatolia, today located nearby the modern town of Bergama...
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  • maps and city maps. The Pergamon added extra maps of the United Kingdom and Canada. American Association for the Advancement of Science (1968). Science...
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    allied Kingdom of Pergamon under Eumenes II against a Seleucid army of Antiochus III the Great. The two armies initially camped northeast of Magnesia...
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    The Pergamon Altar (Ancient Greek: Βωμός τῆς Περγάμου) was a monumental construction built during the reign of the Ancient Greek King Eumenes II in the...
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  • Pergamus, although this is probably a later addition to the legend. The Kingdom of Pergamon (or Pergamum), while it was independent, seems to have created new...
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    an ancient kingdom on the periphery of Archaic and Classical Greece, which later became the dominant state of Hellenistic Greece. The kingdom was founded...
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    at the Siege of Gaza (332 BCE). Philetaerus, 4th/3rd century BCE: founder of the Kingdom of Pergamon Zhao Gao, died 210 BCE: favourite of Qin Shi Huang...
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    First Macedonian War (category Wars involving the Kingdom of Pergamon)
    allied (after 211 BC) with the Aetolian League and Attalus I of Pergamon, against Philip V of Macedon, contemporaneously with the Second Punic War (218–201...
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    hereditary priesthood of Apollo. He flourished under Attalus III of Pergamum. He wrote a number of works both in prose and verse, of which two survive complete...
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    victory of the Romans at Pydna in 168 BC. over Perseus, or a consecration of the kingdom of Pergamon at the same time, or the victory of Pergamon and Rhodes...
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    actions towards Rhodes and the Kingdom of Pergamum greatly disconcerted the two states. Although Rhodes and the Kingdom of Pergamum would later gain the...
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    the seizure of the Pangaion Hills. During the Hellenistic period the royal houses of Macedonia, Ptolemaic Egypt, and the Kingdom of Pergamon exercised full...
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    ruler of the Attalid kingdom of Pergamon and the founder of the city of Attalia. He was the second son of Attalus I Soter and queen Apollonis of Cyzicus...
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  • height of its power. The kingdom of Pergamon under the Attalid dynasty was an independent kingdom established after the rule of Philetaerus by his nephew...
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    Ephesus (category Former kingdoms)
    his kingdom to the Roman Republic, on condition that the city of Pergamon be kept free and autonomous. Ephesus, as part of the kingdom of Pergamon, became...
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    Troad (category Historical regions of Anatolia)
    to Rome's ally, the kingdom of Pergamon. The Attalid kings of Pergamon (now Bergama) later ceded Mysia, including the territory of the Troad, to the Roman...
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    barred from recruiting mercenaries "north of the Taurus" (that is, from territory just ceded to Roman allies Pergamon and Rhodes) and entertaining fugitives...
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    Alexander Balas (category Year of birth unknown)
    ruler of the Seleucid Empire from 150 BC to August 145 BC. Picked from obscurity and supported by the neighboring Roman-allied Kingdom of Pergamon, Alexander...
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    (200–197 BC) was fought between Macedon, led by Philip V of Macedon, and Rome, allied with Pergamon and Rhodes. Philip was defeated and was forced to abandon...
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  • Pergamon Press was an Oxford-based publishing house, founded by Paul Rosbaud and Robert Maxwell, that published scientific and medical books and journals...
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    The Battle of Mount Olympus was fought in 189 BC between the Galatian Gauls of Asia Minor and an alliance consisting of the Roman Republic and Pergamum...
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    Theodoros (1974). "Το Βασίλειο των Σελευκιδών και η Ρώμη" [The Seleucid kingdom and Rome]. In Christopoulos, Georgios A. & Bastias, Ioannis K. (eds.)....
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    Bergama (redirect from History of Bergama)
    museum. The city of Pergamon was the capital of the Attalid kingdom from 281 BC to 133 BC and then became part of the Roman province of Asia. It remained...
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  • method in Europe for naming years. The Kingdom of Pergamon becomes the Roman Province of Asia upon the defeat of Aristonicus, pretender to the Attalid...
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  • Eumenes II of Pergamon, based on an arrangement between her father and Eumenes II. The Kingdom of Pergamon, like Cappadocia, were allies of Rome. Eumenes...
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