Pergamum

American  

[pur-guh-muhm] / ˈpɜr gə məm /

Also Pergamon

noun

1. an ancient Greek kingdom on the coast of Asia Minor: later a Roman province.

2. the ancient capital of this kingdom; now the site of Bergama, in W Turkey.

3. ancient name of Bergama.

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Pergamum British  

/ ˈpɜːɡəməm /

noun

1. an ancient city in NW Asia Minor, in Mysia: capital of a major Hellenistic monarchy of the same name that later became a Roman province

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Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• Pergamenian
  adjective
• Pergamene
  adjective
• Pergamic
  adjective

Example Sentences

Raw fruit was thought to cause fever, based on medical theories that dated back to the second-century Greek physician Galen of Pergamum.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 18, 2019

King of Pergamum, in gratitude for the lessons learned in Athens in his student days.

From Time Magazine Archive

The legacy to the Roman people of the kingdom and treasures of Attalus III. of Pergamum gave him an opportunity.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" by Various

After the defeat of Antiochus the Great, king of Syria, by the Romans, Ephesus was handed over by the conquerors to Eumenes, king of Pergamum, whose successor, Attalus Philadelphus, unintentionally worked the city irremediable harm.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" by Various

She made Egypt, still under the Ptolemies, and Pergamum and most of the small states of Asia Minor into “Allies,” or, as we should call them now, “protected states.”

From A Short History of the World by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)