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Pergamum
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Per·ga·mum  (pûrg-mm)
An ancient Greek city and kingdom of western Asia Minor in modern-day western Turkey. It passed to Rome in the second century b.c. and was noted for its sculpture and its library, which Mark Antony gave to Cleopatra.
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Noun1.PergamumPergamum - an ancient Greek city located in the western part of what is now modern Turkey; the technique of preparing sheepskins as parchment was developed here
Republic of Turkey, Turkey - a Eurasian republic in Asia Minor and the Balkans; on the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1918, the Young Turks, led by Kemal Ataturk, established a republic in 1923


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