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Pergamum

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Pergamum , ancient city of NW Asia Minor, in Mysia (modern Turkey), in the fertile valley of the Caicus. It became important c.300 BC, after the breakup of the Macedonian empire, when a Greek family (the Attalids) established a brilliant center of Hellenistic civilization. The kingdom achieved major importance under Attalus I (d. 197 BC), Eumenes II (d. 160 or 159), and Attalus II (d. 138). These kings followed a pro-Roman policy through fear of the imperialism of Philip V of Macedon and of Antiochus III of Syria. The independence of Pergamum ended dramatically when Attalus III (d.133)... Read more
Pergamum
A Dictionary of World History Pergamum An ancient city in what is now Turkey, some 20 km (12 miles) inland from the west coast of Asia Minor. It developed into...Rome in 133 BC. It became a province of Asia, and was soon eclipsed by Ephesus as the chief city of the region. Attalid Pergamum was a brilliant centre of Hellenistic civilization: ... Read more
Pergamum
Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes Pergamum •minimum • maximum • optimum • chrysanthemum , helianthemum •cardamom • Pergamum • sesamum •per annum • magnum • damnum • Arnhem , Barnum • envenom , venom... Read more

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The Lost Letters of Pergamum: A Story from the New Testament World
Magazine article from: Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society; 9/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; The Lost Letters of Pergamum: A Story from the New Testament World...correspondences between a Roman nobleman in Pergamum and Luke, the author of the canonical...a private home under excavation in Pergamum. This would be a rather miraculous... Read more
The Paradox of Pergamum - Adhoc Theatre Workshop Theatre ** Ends today
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman; 8/21/1999; ; 123 words ; ...instruments and plastic body parts. And when they say The Paradox of Pergamum will investigate society's age-old need to keep probing deeper...happen when science and entertainment meet, and The Paradox of Pergamum is no exception. Somehow, Van Den Berg and Stegman manage to... Read more
Digital data storage for the long run.(UP FRONT)
Magazine article from: Information Management Journal; 7/1/2008; ; 496 words ; ...scientists are working on a solution. Pergamum, named after an ancient Greek library...technologies change. According to Storer, Pergamum uses individual building blocks consisting...activating the hard drive. For reliability, Pergamum uses two levels of redundancy, within... Read more
Tourlite's turkish treasures. (Hot Products).(Tourlite International tour)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Travel Agent; 2/4/2002; 69 words ; ...Treasures of Turkey visits Istanbul, Ankara, Cappadocia. Konya, Pamukkale, Hierapolis, Aphrodisias, Kusadasi, Ephesus, Izmir, Pergamum, Troy, Canakkale and Gallipoli. Priced from $1,429 per person double, the package includes roundtrip air from New York, transfers... Read more
A planet unfree: what does human rights have to do with environmental protection? Everything. (big business and government forces oppress people if they protest pollution and the exploitation of natural resources)(The Next Generation)(Cover Story)
Magazine article from: Sierra; 11/1/1997; ; 700+ words ; ...November day in 1996, a line of logging trucks rumbled into an old olive-growing region of Turkey, near the ancient Pillars of Pergamum. The government- paid loggers had come to clear land for a new gold-mining project sponsored by the French-based conglomerate... Read more
Key cuts tour price. (Hot Products).(Key Tours)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Travel Agent; 5/6/2002; 82 words ; ...Turkey program is being offered at a lower price than last year. The tour, which visits Istanbul, Canakkale, Izmir, Ephesus, Pergamum and Pamukkale, costs $695 per person double, land only, including 10 meals, transfers, accommodations and sightseeing. The... Read more
Imperial Cults and the Apocalypse of John: Reading Revelation in the Ruins
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly; 10/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...remains such as the imperial temple at Pergamum-identified as the "throne of Satan...Ephesus; another to Rome and Augustus at Pergamum; to Tiberius, the senate, and Livia at...him. Someone else, perhaps Antipas of Pergamum, might not be so fortunate. As a biblical... Read more
The Business of Angels.(poem)
Magazine article from: The Southern Review; 1/1/1999; ; 124 words ; ...they first Shook hips like rock stars uprooted. Maybe they stole Flight from Nike of Samothrace & the altar of Zeus at Pergamum, Or modeled after the winged god On a silver coin from Peparethus. Do you think an angel is nothing But an idea grafted to... Read more
Growth of the Roman Empire - 44 bce to 117 ce
Map from: Maps.com World History Maps; 1/1/1999; 161 words ; ...Jerusalem Antioch Rome London Massilia Cyrene Athens Syracuse Carthage Alexandria Babylon Byzantium Tarentum Miletus Sardis Pergamum Aquitania Gaul Belgica Britain Germania Mauritania Numidia Sardinia Dacia Thrace Macedonia Illyria Sicily Achaia Corsica Syria... Read more
A Journey of Faith - The seven churches addressed in revelation each have a story to tell.
Magazine article from: World and I; 7/1/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...voice like a trumpet saying, Write what you see in a book and send it to the seven churches, to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamum and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea. (Rev. 1: 9--11) The land seems timeless; little has changed... Read more

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