Pergamon
Pergamon or Pergamum, also referred to by its modern Greek form Pergamos, was a rich and powerful ancient Greek city in Aeolis. It is located 26 kilometres 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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: ancient city of Ionia in modern-day Turkey and UNESCO World Heritage Site
- Also known as: “Pergamon Acropolis”, “Pergamon Akropolü”, “Pergamos”, and “Pergamum”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Library of Pergamon and Temple of Athena.
Library of Pergamon
Archaeological site
Photo: Wladyslaw Sojka, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Library of Pergamum is an ancient Greek building in Pergamon, Anatolia, today located nearby the modern town of Bergama, in the İzmir Province of western Turkey. It was one of the most important libraries in the ancient world.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Yerlitahtacı and Tepeköy.
Tepeköy
Suburb
Tepeköy is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Bergama, İzmir Province, Turkey. Its population is 1,210. It is situated at the northern banks of Bakırçay river and south west of Bergama. Tepeköy is situated 8 km southwest of Pergamon.
Pergamon
- Categories: ancient city, Ancient Greek archaeological site, polis, tourism, archaeological site, and historic site
- Location: Bergama, İzmir Province, Turkey, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
39.13213° or 39° 7′ 56″ northLongitude
27.18432° or 27° 11′ 4″ eastElevation
320 metres (1,050 feet)Open location code
8GF945JM+VPOpenStreetMap ID
way 220481156OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_siteOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attractionGeoNames ID
9587350Wikidata ID
Q18986
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Pergamon” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Pergamon”
- Afrikaans: “Pergamum”
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Πέργαμον”
- Arabic: “برغامون”
- Arabic: “بيرغامون”
- Armenian: “Պերգամոն”
- Asturian: “Pérgamo”
- Asturian: “Pérgamu”
- Azerbaijani: “Pergamon”
- Azerbaijani: “Perqam”
- Basque: “Pergamo”
- Belarusian: “Пергам”
- Belarusian: “Пергамон”
- Belarusian: “Пэргам”
- Bosnian: “Pergam”
- Breton: “Pergamon”
- Bulgarian: “Бергама”
- Bulgarian: “Пергам”
- Bulgarian: “Пергамон”
- Bulgarian: “Пергамско царство”
- Catalan: “Pèrgam”
- Catalan: “Pergamon”
- Catalan: “Pergamum”
- Catalan: “Pergamus”
- Cebuano: “Bergama”
- Chinese: “別迦摩”
- Chinese: “巴格門古城”
- Chinese: “帕加马”
- Chinese: “拍加马”
- Chinese: “拍加马王国”
- Chinese: “柏加曼城”
- Chinese: “珀耳伽摩斯”
- Croatian: “Pergam”
- Czech: “Pergamon”
- Danish: “Pergamon”
- Dutch: “Pergamon”
- Dutch: “Pergamum”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بيرجامون”
- Esperanto: “Pergamo”
- Esperanto: “Pergamono”
- Esperanto: “Pergamum”
- Estonian: “Pergamon”
- Finnish: “Pergamon”
- Finnish: “Pergamum”
- French: “Acropole de Pergame”
- French: “Pergame”
- Galician: “Pérgamo”
- Georgian: “პერგამონი”
- German: “Akropolis von Pergamon”
- German: “Pergamenisches Reich”
- German: “Pergamon”
- Greek: “Ακρόπολη Περγάμου”
- Greek: “Εκκλησία της Περγάμου”
- Greek: “Πέργαμος”
- Hebrew: “פרגאמון”
- Hebrew: “פרגמון”
- Hungarian: “Pergamon”
- Icelandic: “Pergamon”
- Icelandic: “Pergamum”
- Indonesian: “Kerajaan Pergamon”
- Indonesian: “Pergamon”
- Indonesian: “Pergamum”
- Interlingua: “Pergamon”
- Irish: “Péargamas”
- Irish: “Péargamon”
- Italian: “Pergamo”
- Japanese: “ペルガマ”
- Japanese: “ベルガモン”
- Japanese: “ペルガモン”
- Kazakh: “Пергам”
- Korean: “버가모”
- Korean: “페르가몬”
- Korean: “페르가뭄”
- Latin: “Pergamum”
- Latin: “Pergamus”
- Latvian: “Pergama”
- Lithuanian: “Pergamas”
- Macedonian: “Пергам”
- Malagasy: “Pergamôsy”
- Malay: “Pergamon”
- Maltese: “Pergamon”
- Maltese: “Pergamos”
- Maltese: “Pergamum”
- Mongolian: “Пергам хот, эртний Грек хот”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Pergamon”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Pergamum”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Pergamon”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Pergamum”
- Norwegian: “Pergamon”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Pergam”
- Persian: “پرگاموس”
- Persian: “پرگامون”
- Polish: “Pergamon”
- Portuguese: “Acrópole de Pérgamo”
- Portuguese: “Pergamo”
- Portuguese: “Pérgamo”
- Romanian: “Pergam”
- Romanian: “Pergamon”
- Russian: “Акрополь Пергама”
- Russian: “Пергам”
- Russian: “Пергамон”
- Scots: “Pergamon”
- Serbian: “Pergam”
- Serbian: “Пергам”
- Serbian: “Пергамон”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Pergam”
- Sicilian: “Pergamu”
- Slovak: “Pergamon”
- Slovenian: “Pergamon”
- Spanish: “Acrópolis de Pérgamo”
- Spanish: “Pergamo”
- Spanish: “Pérgamo”
- Swahili: “Pergamon”
- Swedish: “Bergama”
- Swedish: “Pergamon”
- Swedish: “Pergamum”
- Swiss German: “Pergamon”
- Tagalog: “Pergamo”
- Tatar: “Пергам”
- Thai: “เพอร์กามอน”
- Tosk Albanian: “Pergamon”
- Turkish: “Bergama Antik Kenti”
- Turkish: “Bergama”
- Turkish: “Pergamon”
- Ukrainian: “Пергам”
- Urdu: “پرگاممون”
- Urdu: “پیرگامون”
- Vietnamese: “Pergamon”
- Waray (Philippines): “Pergamon”
- Welsh: “Pergamon”
- Welsh: “Pergamum”
- Wu Chinese: “帕加马”
- Yue Chinese: “巴格門古城”
- “Pergamon”
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