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Philadelphia was a city in the Greek kingdom of Pergamon. on the Aegean coast of present day Turkey. Now it is Alaşehir. It was founded by King Eumenes II, who named it the love of his brother (which is what Philadelphia means)., It then came under the Romans. The city was as the site of one of the seven churches of Asia in the Book of Revelation.

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