PERGAMUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Pergamum mean? 

• PERGAMUM (noun)
  The noun PERGAMUM has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: PERGAMUM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PERGAMUM (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 here

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)