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Philadelphia

Φιλαδελφία).


1.

A city of Lydia, at the foot of Mount Tmolus, built by Attalus Philadelphus, king of Pergamum. It was an early seat of Christianity, and its Church is one of the seven to which the Apocalypse of St. John is addressed.


2.

A city of Cilicia Aspera, on the Calycadnus, above Aphrodisias.

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