Pergamon or Pergamum (/ˈpɜːrɡəmən/ or /ˈpɜːrɡəmɒn/; Greek: Πέργαμον), also referred to by its modern Greek form Pergamos (Πέργαμος), was a rich and powerful...
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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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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 Pergamon Museum (German: Pergamonmuseum; pronounced [ˈpɛʁ.ɡa.mɔn.muˌzeː.ʊm] ) is a listed building on the Museum Island in the historic centre of Berlin...
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Look up Pergamon in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Pergamon is an ancient Greek city in modern Turkey. Pergamon may also refer to: Pergamon Museum,...
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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 Metropolis of Pergamon (Greek: Μητρόπολις Περγάμου) was an ecclesiastical territory (diocese) of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople in western...
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Asclepieion of Pergamon was an asclepieion, a healing temple, built in honour of the gods Asclepius and Hygieia, located west of the Pergamon hill. The 70...
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Robert Maxwell (section Pergamon lost and regained)
British Army. In subsequent years he worked in publishing, building up Pergamon Press to a major academic publisher. After six years as a Labour Party...
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The Pergamon World Atlas is an English-language world atlas published in 1968 by Pergamon Press. The atlas is based on maps prepared by the Polish Army...
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Apollodorus (Ancient Greek: Ἀπολλόδωρος) of Pergamon was a rhetorician of ancient Greece who was the author of a school of rhetoric called after him Apollodoreios...
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Galen (redirect from Galen of pergamon)
September 129 – 216 AD), often anglicized as Galen (/ˈɡeɪlən/) or Galen of Pergamon, was a Roman and Greek physician, surgeon, and philosopher. Considered...
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Eumenes II (redirect from Eumenes of Pergamon)
197–159 BC) was a ruler of Pergamon, and a son of Attalus I Soter and queen Apollonis and a member of the Attalid dynasty of Pergamon. The eldest son of king...
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Kadrî of Pergamon (Turkish: Bergamalı Kadrî), 16th century Ottoman linguist, author of the first grammar book on Ottoman language. Although little is known...
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Sosus of Pergamon (Ancient Greek: Σῶσος) was a Greek mosaic artist of the second century BC. He is the only mosaic artist whose name was recorded in literature...
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about 135 BC) was a princess of Cappadocia and through marriage a queen of Pergamon. Stratonice was of Greek Macedonian and Persian ancestry. She was the first...
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Pergamon Eurysthenes (Greek: Εὐρυσθένης; c. 400 BC) was a descendant of the Spartan king Demaratus. After his deposition in 491 BC, Demaratus had fled...
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Pergamon 2nd Life is a joint art project created by the author, mime artist, and photographer Andrey Alexander from Moscow, Russia, together with the author...
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Eumenes III (redirect from Aristonicus of Pergamon)
Aristonicus; in Greek Aristonikos Ἀριστόνικος) was a pretender to the throne of Pergamon. He led the revolt against the Pergamene regime and found success early...
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Library of Pergamum (redirect from Library of Pergamon)
Pergamum (Greek: Βιβλιοθήκη του Πέργαμον) is an ancient Greek building in Pergamon, Anatolia, today located nearby the modern town of Bergama, in the İzmir...
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Dancer of Pergamon is the modern name for a Hellenistic statue of a woman from Pergamon, which is now kept at the Antikensammlung Berlin. The Dancer was...
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Attalus I (redirect from Attalus I of Pergamon)
Σωτήρ, 'Savior'; 269–197 BC), was the ruler of the Ionian Greek polis of Pergamon (modern-day Bergama, Turkey) and the larger Pergamene Kingdom from 241 BC...
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Quichotte (album) (redirect from Pergamon (album))
album by Tangerine Dream released in 1981. It was re-released in 1986 as Pergamon. It is a selection from the two live concerts held on 31 January 1980 at...
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Aeschrion (Gr. Αισχρίων) of Pergamon was a physician in the 2nd century AD. He was one of Galen's tutors, who says that he belonged to the sect of the...
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First World War in 1918, the smaller frontal gate was reconstructed in the Pergamon Museum in Berlin. Other panels from the façade of the gate are located...
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"magic". The style of Greek letters on the tablet, which was discovered at Pergamon, dates it to the first half of the 3rd century AD. The use of bronze was...
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Artemon (Ancient Greek: Ἀρτέμων) of Pergamon was a rhetorician of ancient Greece, a grammarian and writer who wrote a history of Sicily, which is now lost...
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Pottery. 2nd edition. Pergamon Press, 1988. Ryan W. and Radford, C. Whitewares: Production, Testing And Quality Control. Pergamon Press, 1987. Hamer, Frank...
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Hegesinus of Pergamon (Greek: Ἡγησίνους, translit. Hēgēsínous), was an Academic Skeptic philosopher from Pergamon. He was the successor of Evander and...
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Zeus (centre-left) battles against Porphyrion (far-right), detail of the Gigantomachy frieze from the Pergamon Altar, Pergamon Museum, Berlin....
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