STRONGS G4010:
Πέργαμος (perhaps
Περγαμμον,
τό (the gender in the N. T. is indeterminate; cf.
Lob. ad Phryn., p. 421f;
Pape, Eigennamen, see under the words)),
Περγαμου,
ἡ,
Pergamus (or
Pergamum (cf.
Curtius, § 413)), a city of Mysia Major in Asia Minor, the seat of the dynasties of Attalus and Eumenes, celebrated for the temple of Aesculapius, and the invention ((?) cf. Gardthausen, Griech. Palaeogr., p. 39f; Birt, Antikes Buchwesen, chapter ii.) and manufacture of parchment. The river Selinus flowed through it and the Cetius ran past it (
Strabo 13, p. 623;
Pliny, 5, 30 (33); 13, 11 (21);
Tacitus, ann. 3, 63). It was the birthplace of the physician
Galen, and had a great royal library. Modern Berghama. There was a Christian church there:
Revelation 1:11;
Revelation 2:12.
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