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	My Lines - Person Page 323
		tetrarcus of Trocmes Amyntas of the Trocmii was the son of King of Galatia Brogitarix of the Trocmii and Princess of Galatia.
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		King of Lydia Sadyattes Mermnadae was the son of King of Lydia Ardys Mermnadae.
	homepages.rootsweb.com /~cousin/html/p323.htm (5659 words)

	Turkish Odyssey/Places of Interest/Aegean/Bergama-Akhisar
		Pergamum later became the capital of a flourishing Hellenistic kingdom and one of the principal centers of Hellenistic civilization.
		King Attalus III bequeathed (133 BC) his domains to the Romans, under whom the city retained its position as the preeminent artistic and intellectual center of Anatolia but declined in political and economic importance.
		Pergamum attained a high culture in the Hellenistic era, boasting an outstanding library that rivaled in importance that of Alexandria, a famous school of sculpture and excellent public buildings and monuments of which the Zeus Altar is the best example.
	www.turkishodyssey.com /places/aegean/aegean1.htm (2968 words)

	Pergamum Kingdom
		Pergamum Kingdom was built on the ashes of the Hellenistic Kingdoms in Asia Minor.
		By that time, Philip V, the king of Macedonia was developing some other plans and turned his eyes to Pergamum and Rhodes in 204 BCE, a threat that Attalus was unable to encounter alone.
		When his elder brother Eumenes became the king, he served in his army as general fighting against Antiochus III the Seleucid king, Prusias the king of Bithynia, Pharnaces I, the king of Pontus and troublesome Gauls.
	www.ancientanatolia.com /historical/pergamum_kingdom.htm (1605 words)

	Pergamum and Troy, Turkey - Travel Photos by Galen R Frysinger, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
		To his reign belong the altar of Zeus and the development of the library, founded by his father, where a group of scholars established a school of grammatical study in opposition to the scholars of the Alexandrian library.
		The prosperity and power of Pergamum continued under Attalus II Philadelphus, who reigned from about 160 to 138 BC, and Attalus III Philometor, who reigned from 138 to 133 BC; the last-named ruler, having no heirs, bequeathed his kingdom to the Romans.
		Under Roman control, Pergamum remained one of the chief cities of Asia Minor, being the capital of the province of Asia.
	www.galenfrysinger.com /pergamum_turkey.htm (887 words)

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		The foundation of acropolis in Pergamum depended on social and cultural activities which we can consider it to be the daily life.
		Heroon in Pergamum was the shrine in which the kings especially Attalus I and Eumenes II were worshipped.
		The Library of Pergamum was rich in sources but when the Egyptians prohibited the export of papyrus, Pergamum King ordered a new material to be found which can take the place of papyrus.
	www.meandertravel.com /ephesustours/pergamum.htm (1026 words)

	Message to Pergamum - Pastor Peter's Bible Insights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Pergamum was liberated from the Persians by Alexander the Great.
		The famous Doctor Galan (130-200A.D.) was born in Pergamum.
		In 347 Eusebius, bishop of Pergamum, attended the synod of Sardica.
	hometown.aol.com /peterwebit/Revpergamum.html (599 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Pergamum
		Pergamum PERGAMUM [Pergamum], ancient city of NW Asia Minor, in Mysia (modern Turkey), in the fertile valley of the Caicus.
		The name is a corruption of Pergamum, the ancient city of Asia Minor where preparation of parchment suitable for use on both sides was achieved in the 2d cent.
		Perseus PERSEUS [Perseus] c.212-166 BC, last king of Macedon (179-168 BC), son and successor of Philip V. He intrigued against his younger brother, Demetrius, eventually bringing about the latter's execution by Philip V. As king, his involvement in Greek politics excited the fears of Eumenes II of Pergamum
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Pergamum (555 words)

	Pergamum - Kusadasi Guide - Historical Places
		King Attalus III bequeathed the territory to the Romans who made the city rich in art and culture poor in politics and economy.
		Because of this, buildings in Pergamum were designed to be used in daily life.
		Pergamum had the fame to be the first city who showed reaction to the functional urbanism of Hippodamus as they preferred ornamental urbanism.
	www.kusadasi.net /historical/pergamum.htm (409 words)

	THE CHURCH AT PERGAMUM
		The church was reminded that Pergamum’s power structure had wrongly judged or condemned Antipas, a faithful witness, and executed him as a martyr (1:5).
		The mistakes of the Pergamum church are important lessons to all Christians who must struggle to keep their spiritual balance in a darkened world.
		Those who conquered in the Pergamum church – who didn’t fall prey to this heresy – were promised salvation under the metaphor of the "hidden manna" and "white stone with a new name" (2:17).
	www.wcg.org /lit/bible/Rev/rev2d.htm (1500 words)

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		In spite of the fact that the Syrian king Antiochos III signed the Apamea peace treaty in 188 B.C. after his defeat at Magnesia by the Rome-Pergamum alliance, the dispute over borders had not been resolved.
		It is for this reason that Pergamum's King Attalos II (reigned 159-138 B.C.) with the aim of establishing a naval base, founded Attalei, giving it his own name.
		With the king of Pergamum's transfer of his territories to Rome in 133 B.C., Attaleia became independent for a time, later becoming linked to the Cilician state.
	www.gototurkey.co.uk /index.php?link=1256 (1453 words)

	Jesus' Letters to the Churches, Lesson 5: Pergamum (Leader's Notes) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Pergamum held the official honor of being the provincial capital of Roman Asia, though this honor was in fact also claimed by Ephesus and Smyrna.
		Pergamum, as the provincial capital, was one of the few cities granted the power by Rome to inflict capital punishment.
		Remember that Pergamum was a city to which Rome had given the rare power of capital punishment, which was symbolized by the sword and was known as "the right of the sword." Thus Jesus reminded the Christians in Pergamum that the Roman rule and law was limited and temporal.
	www.path-light.com /Rev05b.htm (2907 words)

	King Attalus Philometor of Pergamum III (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Attalus'; father was King Eumenes of Pergamum II and his mother was Stratonice of Cappadocia.
		His paternal grandparents were King Attalus Sorter of Syria and Apollonis of Cyzicus; his maternal grandparents were Ariarathes Eusebes of Cappadocia IV and Antiochis of Syria.
		View the entire genealogy report of Philometor of Pergamum families, or surname index of Philometor of Pergamum pedigrees or report summary of Philometor of Pergamum heritage from "The Skaggs-Files".
	familytrees.genopro.com.cob-web.org:8888 /Azrael/ind06129.htm (79 words)

	Ariarathes V of Cappadocia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In consequence of rejecting, at the wish of the Romans, a marriage with the sister of Demetrius I Soter, the latter made war upon him, and brought forward Orophernes, one of the supposititious sons of the late king, as a claimant of the throne.
		In 154 BC, Ariarathes assisted the king of Pergamum Attalus II in his war against Prusias II of Bithynia, and sent his son Demetrius in command of his forces.
		By his wife Nysa (possibly a daughter of king Pharnaces I of Pontus) he had six children; but they were all, with the exception of one, killed by their mother, that she might obtain the government of the kingdom.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ariarathes_V_of_Cappadocia (531 words)

	Akustik Travel&Yachting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Pergamum was first inhabited in 8000 BC, but the city's brightest period was following the death of Alexander the Great.
		Pergamum became a Roman province in 129 BC.
		The most important structure at Pergamum is the Asclepieum, one of the most famous shrines and therapeutic centers in the classical world.
	www.turkuaz-guide.net /akustik/pergamum.html (298 words)

	Pergamum A Refuge Of Culture
		While the tide of the Gaulish invasion swirled and foamed to and fro about Asia Minor between the years 277 and 241, Pergamum for a time paid them tribute, but she retained her general independence, and at last, under Attains I, refused her tribute, and defeated them in two decisive battles.
		On the hill of the Acropolis was reared a rich group of buildings, palaces, temples, a museum, and a library, rivals of those of Alexandria of which we shall presently tell, and almost the first in the world.
		Under the princes of Pergamum, Greek art blossomed afresh, and the reliefs of the altar of the temple of Zeus and the statues of the fighting and dying Gauls which were made there, are among the artistic treasures of mankind.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles32n/outline-history-7.shtml (215 words)

	Mail Post Office (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		King Sargon of Babylon reigned about 3800 B.C. He established a regular postal service for his official letters, which he sent to his correspondents everywhere in the world as it was then known.
		So the king's letters were cut on small slabs of soft clay, which was then baked hard, covered with a softer clay for protection, and then marked with the royal seal.
		In 1939, at the time of the visit of the King and Queen of Great Britain, a special postal car was attached to their train from the time it left the Canadian border, June seventh, to the time it returned to Canada via Rouses Point three days later.
	www.catskillarchive.com /rrextra/mails.Html (3364 words)

	Pergamum — FactMonster.com
		Under Rome, Pergamum was reconstituted as the province of Asia, and Ephesus rapidly eclipsed Pergamum as the chief city of Asia Minor.
		Pergamum accepted Christianity early; it was one of the Seven Churches of Asia (Rev.1.11; 2.12).
		B.C., son of Attalus I, king of Pergamum (197–159 B.C.).
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/history/A0838304.html (347 words)

	Philologos \| The Letters to the Seven Churches of Asia \| Chapter 10
		Conquered by the Romans in the war against Antiochus the Great, it was given by them to their ally Eumenes, King of Pergamum, at the peace which was concluded in 189 BC; and in 133 BC it was bequeathed by his nephew and adopted son Attalus III to the great conquering people.
		Doubtless the kings tried to make their kingdom a real unity, with a common feeling and patriotism, and not merely an agglomeration of parts tied together under compulsion and external authority; and, if so, they could attain this end only by instituting a common worship.
		The latter was the royal god, and the royal family was regarded as sprung from him, and the reigning king was his representative and incarnation.
	philologos.org /__eb-lttsc/chap10.htm (3362 words)

	Seven churches of Asia (Part 2 - Pergamos or Pergamum)
		Experiments subsequently led to the discovery that the prepared skins of pigs and deer were excellent substitutes for papyrus and Parchment was born.
		Pergamum was the capital city of the province of Asia in the ancient Roman Empire.
		Pergamum could not rival either Ephesus or Smyrna in its volume of trade, but it laid claim to some distinction.
	www.wordsoftruth.net /sevenchurchesasiapart2_82002.htm (1216 words)

	Temples of Zeus
		The Greek mythology made the gods seem almost human, and some of the Seleucid kings considered themselves to be deities, in the tradition of Alexander the Great.
		The king of Pergamum, Eumenes II, agreed to assist Antiochus to become established as king on the Seleucid throne.
		In Revelation 2:12-13, the city of Pergamum, rather than a subterranean region, is identified as the location of Satan's throne.
	www.sentex.net /~tcc/ftemp.html (729 words)

	pergamum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Hellenistic kdm of Pergamum flourished 263-133 B.C. on the West coast of Asia Minor.
		The city of Pergamum was one of the most beautiful of all Greek cities.
		When the last king of Pergamum died without an heir he bequeated his kingdom to Rome (133 B.C.) Rome accepted it and set up the province Asia.
	www.hyperhistory.com /online_n2/civil_n2/histscript2_n2/pergamum.html (83 words)

	Seven Letters - Pergamum
		Pergamum was forced to invent something else, and turned to the skin of animals.
		Pergamum on the hill viewed form the main street in the Aesulapeum.
		In Pergamum you are, and in Pergamum you stay.
	www2.eis.net.au /~paulh/rn67lper.htm (2312 words)

	Mystery Babylon the Great
		King Attalus III (138-133 BC) left the kingdom to Rome upon his death, and Pergamum become the de facto capital of the Roman Province of Asia.
		Pergamum was known for worship of the Evil King and Prostitute of Babylon in various forms.
		Satan's throne was a metaphor for the Altar of Zeus in Pergamon (or Pergamum).
	www.biblenews1.com /babylon/babylon6.html (10766 words)

	The Antichrists Exposed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		It was relocated in Pergamum in Asia Minor, where the king of Pergamum took his seat upon Satan's throne and donned the accompanying robes.
		In order for an individual to inherit the throne of David and be a Davidic King, he must first be a son of the king on the throne, and secondly, he must be appointed by that king to inherit the throne.
		In II Kings Elijah's death is recorded: And as they still went on and talked, behold, a chariot of fire and horses of fire separated the two of them.
	www.webpost.net /ab/AbdielBahai/Jesus.html (21151 words)

	Eumenes II - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		BC, son of Attalus I, king of Pergamum (197-159 BC).
		He fell out of favor, however, during the Roman war with Macedonia, because he was suspected of plotting with the enemy.
		A vigorous ruler and an adept politician, Eumenes II helped make Pergamum an important cultural center, which included a library that was second only to that of Alexandria.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-eumenes2.html (324 words)

	The Prophecy of Daniel 11 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The fourth king was (4) Xerxes (the Ahasuerus of Esther - 486-465 BCE).
		When the king requested time for consultation, Popillius drew a circle around Antiochus IV with a stick he was carrying and told him not to leave the circle until he gave his response.
		King Antiochus IV was greatly angered by the exploits of Judas and his men, and he gathered his army.
	users.aristotle.net /~bhuie/Daniel11.htm (10122 words)

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		Hierapolis is understood to have been founded by Eumenes II, king of Pergamum.
		This city founded around a subterranean cavern qualified plutonian which was a religious centre developed, beginning from the hellenistic age and became an important place.
		When Attalos, king of Pergamum, yielded his territory to Rome in 133 BC the city was subordinated to the Asian province.
	www.exploreturkey.com /exptur.phtml?id=261 (755 words)

	Pergamum
		Built on a very steep slope, the Pergamum theatre is one of the Hellenistic period's finest architectural achievements.
		The people of Pergamum built this very alluring temple on the north side of the 250m- long theatre terrace, specifically so it would dominate the landscape of the area.
		The altar, only the foundation of which is still in Pergamum, has been reconstructed and is today on display, with all of its reliefs, in the Berlin Museum.
	www.ephesusexcursions.com /pergamum.htm (1253 words)

	Asia Minor Turkey Tour _ Istanbul - Antalya (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Pergamum, once one of the richest small kingdoms in the Middle East, contained one of the world's largest collections of books.
		In fact, the Egyptians were so afraid that Pergamum would attract scholars away from Alexandria that they cut off the area's supply of papyrus, forcing the invention of "pergamen" (Latin for parchment), made from animal hides rather than papyrus reed.
		Antalya, located in an area called Pamphylia, was founded by Attalus 2, King of Pergamum, as a port city in the 2C BC.
	www.industravels.ca /tours/asia-minor-turkey.html (1390 words)

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