🏛️ Pergamon and Its Hellenistic-Roman Capital

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Pergamon or Pergamum, also referred to by its modern Greek form Pergamos (Πέργαμος), was a rich and powerful ancient Greek city in Aeolis. It is located 26 kilometres (16 mi) 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.

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Pergamon and Its Hellenistic-Roman Capital is a cultural World Heritage site in Turkey, in Asia. For the living forecast of the area, open World Weather; the details of why Pergamon and Its Hellenistic-Roman Capital was inscribed are described by the sourced introduction above (from Wikipedia).

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