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	Caicus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Caicus also Caïcus (Greek: Καϊκος or Καϊκός, transliterated as Kaïkos, formerly Astraeus or Astræus) is the ancient name of a river of Asia Minor that rises in the Temnus mountains and flows through Lydia, Mysia, and Aeolis before debouching into the Elaeatic Gulf.
		The Caicus enters the sea approximately 12 km from Pitane, and 3 km from Elaea (Elæa).
		Elaea was the port of Pergamon, which was on the Caicus, approximately 25 km from Elaea.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Caicus (386 words)

	Macedonia
		Eumenes II (197-159 B.c.) built a beautiful city round an impregnable castle on "the pine-coned rock." Attalus II bequeathed his kingdom to Rome 133 B.C. The library was its great boast; founded by Earaches and destroyed by Caliph Omar.
		The Caicus was navigable for small native craft.
		History: Two of the tributaries of the Caicus were the Selinus and the Kteios.
	www.pilgrimtours.com /greece/info/pergamum.htm (1767 words)

	Pergamon, Bergama, Turkey
		The city was located 16 miles inland from the Aegean Sea, two miles north of the Caicus River (modern Bakir Cay) in southern Mysia.
		The terraces that overlook the Caicus River valley lead to the entry gate of the city.
		The two small tributaries of the Caicus that neared the city, the Selinus to the west, the Cetius to the east were navigable by small vessels that transported goods in the ancient period from the sea.
	www.enjoyturkey.com /Tours/Interest/Biblicals/pergamon.htm (852 words)

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		She scowled but did not dispute the old man. The smallest shift of her eyes showed the crowd who was in charge.
		Caicus snorted, clutching his belt with one hand and waving the torturer away with the other as if shooing a bothersome insect.
		Grateful to this man for halting the whipping, she held Lord Caicus' arm as they made their way to his home.
	www.xenafan.com /fiction/content/cityofpeace2.html (5125 words)

	Chapter 31, by Wishes
		Caicus shivered at the sight of what passed for her smile.
		Caicus drew himself up to tower, at least physically, over the ancient one.
		This was supposed to be a challenge between you and the Warrior Princess...
	www.xenafan.com /fiction/content/cityofpeace4.html (5503 words)

	Pergamum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The city is a natural fortress, and sits fortuitously overlooking the rich plain of the river Caicus.
		During the principate, Pergamum's position as the most powerful city in Asia was quickly stripped away by the up-and-coming city of Ephesus.
		Nonetheless, Pergamum controlled an expansive conventus, presumably stretching from the mouth of the Caicus valley at Elaea and its source at Stratonicea.
	persweb.wabash.edu /facstaff/royaltyr/AncientCities/web/dilwortb/Website/Metropolises/Pergamum.html (242 words)

	REVELATION 666
		To the angel of the church in Pergamum write: The city of Pergamum was, and its ruins still are, one of the spectacular wonders of Asia Minor, or Turkey.
		The results of this discovery were to have a significant impact on the preservation of biblical manuscripts and the transmission of materials from ancient times.
		As the Roman capital city of Asia, and situated as it was on a high hill overlooking the fertile Caicus river valley, and located about ten miles inland from the Aegean Sea, Pergamum dominated the surrounding area.
	www.centerce.org /BIBL666/Pergamum.htm (3315 words)

	Revelation Class #11
		Robert Mounce (who does not agree with the preterist position, but is very scholarly in his understanding of the historical churches), writes, “The road north from Smyrna follows the coastline some forty miles, then turns inland in a northeasterly direction along the valley of the Caicus River.
		Built on a cone-shaped hill a thousand feet in height, it dominated the surrounding valley of the Caicus.
		Mounce further writes, “Although the site appears to have been inhabited from prehistoric times, its rise to prominence came in the third century BC when it became the capital of the Attalids…It boasted a library of more than 200,000 volumes.
	www.gracepleasanton.com /Hard_Questions/rev/Revelation11.htm (2220 words)

	Caicus * People, Places, & Things * Greek Mythology: From the Iliad to the Fall of the Last Tyrant
		Caicus * People, Places, and Things * Greek Mythology: From the Iliad to the Fall of the Last Tyrant
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		"People, Places and Things: Caicus", Greek Mythology: From the Iliad to the Fall of the Last Tyrant.
	www.messagenet.com /myths/ppt/Caicus_1.html (276 words)

	Pergamum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		One of the seven churches addressed in Revelation, the city of Pergamum became the center of a large kingdom in the 3rd century B.C. and retained its status as a political and cultural leader into the Byzantine period.
		The acropolis rises 1300 feet above the lower city located on the plain of the Caicus River.
		The god of healing, Aesclepius received worship in cultic centers around the Greek and Roman world.
	www.chippewaumc.org /Pergamum.htm (259 words)

	PERGAMOS - ATS Bible Dictionary on StudyLight.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		A Christian church was established here in the apostolic age, and was addressed by St. John, Revelation 1:11; 2:12.
		The modern city, called Bergamo, lies twenty miles from the sea on the north side of the river Caicus, and contains twelve thousand inhabitants.
		A large castle in ruins stands on the highest of three mountains, which environ the town, and many remains of the ancient city still exist.
	www.studylight.org /dic/ats/view.cgi?number=T1591 (218 words)

	Pergamon.htm
		Pergamon (Bergama, Pergamum) was a small settlement and originally a mountain fortress in the southern Mysia during antiquity (Follow this hyperlink for Pergamon of antiquity).
		The city was located inland from the Aegean Sea near the Caicus River (Bakir Cay).
		The city became prominent in the Hellenistic Period.
	www.worldcoincatalog.com /AC/C2/Greece/AG/HK/Pergamon/Pergamon.htm (142 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 558 (v. 1) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		On this page: Caesoninus – Caesonius Maximus – Cafo – Caianus – Caicus – Caieta
		CAICUS (Kcu/cos), two mythical personages, one a son of Oceanus and Tethys (Hesiod, Theoy.
		343), and the other a son of Hermes and Ocyrrhoe, who threw himself into the river Astraeus, henceforth called Caicus.
	ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/0567.html (974 words)

	Asia, Mysia
		The Kingdom of Pergamum, situated in modern-day Turkey approximately 85 kilometers north of Izmir and 25 kilometers east of the Aegean Sea, played a significant role in the Ancient Mediterranean stage.
		In 281 B.C. when Lysimachus, who had appropriated Western Asia Minor as a successor of Alexander the Great, was defeated by Seleucus of Syria, Philataerus whom he had appointed to direct his fortress perched on the rocky terrain over the Caicus Valley seized his chance to secure the fortress for himself.
		Philataerus was succeeded by his nephew Eumenes who secured the fortress by driving back the Galatians, European Celts settled in north-central Anatolia by the Ionians.
	www.usd.edu /~clehmann/pir/asiamysi.htm (1081 words)

	FaithSite.com
		The name Pergamum means "a citadel", which is an appropriate description of the city which was built like a fortress on the top of a huge hill in the Valley of Caicus.
		Sir William Ramsay said about it: "Beyond all other cities in Asia Minor, it gives the traveler the impression of a royal city, the home of authority; the rocky hill on which it stands is so huge, and dominates the broad plain of the Caicus so proudly and so boldly".
		When Ptolemy, the Egyptian Pharaoh, put an embargo on the export of papyrus, the scholars in Pergamum invented an even better writing material, which was made from the smoothed and polished skins of animals.
	www.faithsite.com /content.asp?CID=70323 (2728 words)

	Revelation 2:12-17
		Emperor worship was part of this loyalty, and a large temple dedicated to emperor Augustus was located in Pergamum.
		The city itself was built on a rocky hill approximately one thousand feet tall in the Caicus valley.
		The name of the city, Pergamum, is derived from the Greek word purgos meaning "tower." Pergamum sat like a citadel towering above the valley.
	www.christinyou.net /pages/revper.html (1868 words)

	Telephos
		He therefore abandoned and exposed the child on Mount Parthenium, and sent Auge to Nauphilus for sale as a slave overseas.
		She was sold to Teuthras, king of Teuthrania on the River Caicus in Mysia.
		While according to traditional version Telephos was discovered by some shepherds in the care of a doe, (elaphos, gr.) which was suckling him (‘a teat’, thele, gr.) named him Telephos (thele + elaphos), according to another more recent heroic version, Herakles discovered Telephos being suckled by a lioness.
	1stmuse.com /Pergamon/telephos.html (875 words)

	Pergamum - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		PERGAMUM [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.
		More information is at your fingertips at HighBeam Research:
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/p/pergamum.asp (396 words)

	Sermon Search
		About 70 miles up above the city of Smyrna there was the city of Pergamos.
		If you were coming by the Aegean Sea, you would dock and walk about 15 miles inland to the lush valley, the Caicus Valley, and you would find the magnificent city of Pergamos.
		Today there is a small village named Bergama, and it is just a shadow of the glory that was past in the city of Pergamos.
	www.sermonsearch.com /content.aspx?id=24000 (585 words)

	City of Peace - part 2 (conclusion)
		.....Margola and Caicus stared at the orb and the advancing army within.
		Caicus gasped at the implication of her words.
		Caicus shrugged and slumped into the closest chair, burying his face in his hands.
	www.ausxip.com /fanfiction/c/cityofpeace2.html (7325 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Elaea
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		Elaea, said to have been founded by Menestheus, was situated at a distance of twelve stadia from the mouth of the Caicus, one hundred and twenty stadia from Pergamus.
		It appears in history about 450 B.C., at the time of the Athenian naval league.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/05371b.htm (217 words)

	CHAPTER TWO - PERGAMOS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		It was built on a tall conical hill, which dominated the valley of the River Caicus, from the top of which the Mediterranean could be seen, fifteen miles away.
		Sir William Ramsay describes it: "Beyond all other cities in Asia Minor, it gives the traveler the impression of a royal city, the home of authority; the rocky hill on which it stands is so huge, and dominates the broad plain of the Caicus so proudly and so boldly."
		However, Pergamos could never achieve the commercial greatness of Ephesus or of Smyrna but it was a center of culture which surpassed both.
	www.apostle.org /lectures/rev2per.htm (4823 words)

	Pergamos - Phantis
		Pergamos or Pergamum (Turkish Bergama) was a Greek city, in northwestern Anatolia, 16 miles from the Aegean Sea, located on a promontory on the north side of the river Caicus (modern day Bakir), that became an important kingdom during the Hellenistic period, under the Attalid dynasty, 282–129 BC.
		The Attalids, the descendants of Attalus, the father of Philetaerus who came to power in 282 BC, were among the most loyal supporters of Rome among the Hellenistic successor states.
		This page was last modified 11:52, October 15, 2005.
	wiki.phantis.com /index.php/Pergamos (320 words)

	BookRags: Theocritus Bion and Moschus Rendered into English Prose Summary
		If thou hast deposited aught, draw out thy money when the balance-sheet is cast up.
		Let others make false excuse, but Caicus tells back money lent, ay, even if one wish it after nightfall.
		The Chian is another man, but I, Theocritus, who wrote these songs, am a Syracusan, a man of the people, being the son of Praxagoras and renowned Philinna.
	www.bookrags.com /ebooks/4775/80.html (505 words)

	City of Peace
		DISCLAIMER/WARNING: The characters of this story, with the exception of Margola and Caicus and a few no-name walk-ons, are the property of MCA/Universal and Renaissance Pictures.
		This is a work of fan fiction, and no attempt is being made to profit from the use of these characters.
		The rain had finally let up as Gabrielle wandered the marketplace of Arcanae.
	www.ausxip.com /fanfiction/c/cityofpeace1.html (12128 words)

	Eumenes I
		Eumenes I: Attalid king of Pergamon, ruled 263-241.
		263: Succeeds Philetaerus as lord of Pergamon and the valley of the Caicus; he behaves too independent in view of the Seleucid king Antiochus I Soter, who declares war.
		Eumenes remains friendly to Antiochus' successor Antiochus II Theos; although is an ally of Ptolemy II Philadelphus of Egypt in the Second Syrian War; and he pays tribute to the Galatians.
	www.livius.org /es-ez/eumenes/eumenes_i.html (109 words)

	Paw-Talk Pets Forum - View Single Post - "Spread Winged Skippers" Caicus Skipper
		Paw-Talk Pets Forum - View Single Post - "Spread Winged Skippers" Caicus Skipper
		Dark sienna-brown above with a number of small, glassy, white dots and bars on outer FW.
		Discussion It is likely that this species feeds on leguminous thorn trees as do its close relatives, but it is poorly known here.
	www.paw-talk.net /forums/showpost.php?p=66252&postcount=1 (114 words)

	Commentary on Revelation
		The lower parts of the hill are very steep all the way round.
		The hill rises from the plain of the river Caicus, and it is about 15Km to the east of the Aegean Sea.
		The rock is a very dark brown 'granite'.
	www.agabus.co.uk /revelation/chapter2b.htm (1846 words)

	Pergamum
		Pergamum (now Bergama) is located in the northern part of the Roman province of Asia Minor, along the Caicus River about ten miles from the Aegean Sea.
		From the third century BC until well into the fourth century AD, its kings controlled a major trade route from the East (Persia) to the Mediterranean world.
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	community.gospelcom.net /Brix?pageID=5571 (208 words)

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