Attalus II Philadelphus

For centuries, this was Atalia.

founded by King Attalus II of Pergamon in the 2nd century BC.

His statue stands guard near Kale Kapisi, looking out over the Mediterranean as he did 2,000 years ago.

Today, the streets are lined with boutique hotels and small shops selling leather goods and ceramics.

I think about the history of this place.

Attalus II of Pergamon founded it as Atalia 2,000 years ago.

The Romans built the harbor that kept the city alive until the 20th century.

The Ottomans added the walls and the mosques.

As far as its history, this was the most recently founded of the seven cities, sometime after 189 BC.

It was founded by either Eumenes II of Pergamum or his younger brother, Attalus Philadelphus, and he was called that because of his love and loyalty for his brother.

On several occasions, the younger brother gave up the throne to his older brother, and so he came to be known as Philadelphus, and the city was named after him and became the city of brotherly love.

The earthquake that destroyed Sardis in 17 AD also destroyed the city of Philadelphia.

And you can see an example of this kind of building in Athens today, albeit reconstructed.

It's the stoa commissioned for the city in the middle of the second century BCE by a guy named Attalus, I guess formally Attalus II, who was at that point the ruler of Pergamon.

That's a kingdom in what is now western Turkey.

And this building was commissioned and built on the east side of the classical Agora in Athens, on the north side of the Acropolis.