The Attalid Kingdom, also called the Kingdom of Pergamon, was a Greek state of the Hellenistic period that ruled much of western Asia Minor from its capital at Pergamon. Philetaerus, a lieutenant of Alexander the Great's former general Lysimachus, seized the city and its surrounding territory around 282 BC, and the new state kept a nominally subordinate relationship to the Seleucid Empire before winning full independence. At its height after 188 BC the kingdom controlled the regions of Mysia, Lydia, Phrygia and Pamphylia under the Attalid dynasty, and its final king, Attalus III, willed the entire realm to Rome upon his death in 133 BC, after which Rome absorbed the territory as the province of Asia by 129 BC.
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The Kingdom of Pergamon, Pergamene Kingdom, or Attalid kingdom was a Greek state during the Hellenistic period that ruled much of the Western part of Asia Minor (now Turkey) from its capital city of Pergamon.
- Wikipedia lead paragraph, official name/state form (w-bbfill-history3-0927)
In Era: Classical Antiquity, lead paragraph and infobox, existence dates
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