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    PERGAMUM

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    An ancient Greek city located in the western part of what is now modern Turkey; the technique of preparing sheepskins as parchment was developed hereplay

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting spatial position

    Instance hypernyms:

    city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)

    Holonyms ("Pergamum" is a part of...):

    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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