Place details
Place nameBergama
Other namesPergame, Pergamos, Pergamum, Pergamon, Pergamus, Pergamum Asiae, Teuthrania
CountryTürkiye
Latitude39.133
Longitude27.167
SourceThesaurus of Geographic Names
Overview
Under Persian rule 5th cen. BC; prosperous Hellenistic city during rule of Eumenes I & Attalids (282-133 BC); bequeathed by Attalus III to Rome 133 BC; to Byzantines after fall of Rome; passed to Ottomans 14th cen.; ruins a "text" of Hellenistic art.