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.
- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: ancient city of Ionia in modern-day Turkey and UNESCO World Heritage Site
- Also known as: “Bergama Antik Kenti”, “Kerajaan Pergamon”, “Mint of Pergamum”, “Péargamon”, “Pergamenisches Reich”, “Pergamon Acropolis”, “Pergamon Akropolü”, “Pergamono”, “Pergamos”, “Pergamus”, “Εκκλησία της Περγάμου”, “Бергама”, “Пергамон”, “Пергамско царство”, “פרגאמון”, “برغامس”, “برغامون”, “بيرغامون”, “پرگاممون”, “پرگاموس”, “버가모”, “페르가뭄”, “ペルガマ”, “ベルガモン”, “別迦摩”, “拍加马”, “拍加马王国”, “柏加曼城”, and “珀耳伽摩斯”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights: Temple of Athena and Theater.
Temple of Trajan
Archaeological site
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. 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, Eastern Mediterranean Europe, Europe
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Latitude
39.13213° or 39° 7′ 56″ north
Longitude
27.18432° or 27° 11′ 4″ east
Elevation
320 metres (1,050 feet)
Open location code
8GF945JM+VP
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_site
OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attraction
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Pergamon” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Pergamon”
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Πέργαμον”
- Arabic: “فرغامس”
- Armenian: “Պերգամոն”
- Asturian: “Pérgamo”
- Asturian: “Pérgamu”
- Azerbaijani: “Pergamon”
- Azerbaijani: “Perqam”
- Basque: “Pergamo”
- Belarusian: “Пергам”
- Belarusian: “Пэргам”
- Bosnian: “Pergam”
- Breton: “Pergamon”
- Bulgarian: “Пергам”
- Catalan: “Pèrgam”
- Cebuano: “Bergama”
- Chinese: “帕加马”
- Croatian: “Pergam”
- Czech: “Pergamon”
- Danish: “Pergamon”
- Dutch: “Pergamon”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بيرجامون”
- Esperanto: “Pergamo”
- Estonian: “Pergamon”
- Finnish: “Pergamon”
- French: “Acropole de Pergame”
- French: “Pergame”
- Galician: “Pérgamo”
- Georgian: “პერგამონი”
- German: “Akropolis von Pergamon”
- German: “Pergamon”
- Greek: “Ακρόπολη Περγάμου”
- Greek: “Πέργαμος”
- Hebrew: “פרגמון”
- Hungarian: “Pergamon”
- Icelandic: “Pergamon”
- Indonesian: “Pergamum”
- Interlingua: “Pergamon”
- Irish: “Péargamas”
- Italian: “Pergamo”
- Japanese: “ペルガモン”
- Kazakh: “Пергам”
- Korean: “페르가몬”
- Latin: “Pergamum”
- Latvian: “Pergama”
- Lithuanian: “Pergamas”
- Macedonian: “Пергам”
- Malagasy: “Pergamôsy”
- Malay: “Pergamon”
- Maltese: “Pergamon”
- Mongolian: “Пергам хот, эртний Грек хот”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Pergamon”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Pergamon”
- Norwegian: “Pergamon”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Pergam”
- Persian: “پرگامون”
- Polish: “Pergamon”
- Portuguese: “Acrópole de Pérgamo”
- Portuguese: “Pérgamo”
- Romanian: “Pergam”
- Romanian: “Pergamon”
- Russian: “Акрополь Пергама”
- Russian: “Пергам”
- Scots: “Pergamon”
- Serbian: “Pergam”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Pergam”
- Sicilian: “Pergamu”
- Slovak: “Pergamon”
- Slovenian: “Pergamon”
- Spanish: “Acrópolis de Pérgamo”
- Spanish: “Pérgamo”
- Swahili: “Pergamon”
- Swedish: “Pergamon”
- Swiss German: “Pergamon”
- Tagalog: “Pergamo”
- Talysh: “Pergam”
- Tatar: “Пергам”
- Thai: “เพอร์กามอน”
- Turkish: “Pergamon”
- Ukrainian: “Пергам”
- Urdu: “پیرگامون”
- Vietnamese: “Pergamon”
- Waray (Philippines): “Pergamon”
- Welsh: “Pergamon”
- Wu Chinese: “帕加马”
- Yue Chinese: “巴格門古城”
- “Pergamon”
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