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The Great king Attalos II. He was the son of Attalos I. and
queen Apollonis. When his beloved brother Eumenes II. died,
he married his wife, Queen Stratonike, and became king of Per-
gamon in 160 BC In fact, the story of Antalya begins that day.
During the reign of the Great king Attalos II. the Kingdom of
Bergama, which almost doubled its territory. The lands he con-
quered were never enough for Attalos. So much so that the em-
peror sent his soldiers to the south in order to expand his king-
dom and establish port cities and addressed them as follows:
“Go, find me such a beautiful place on this earth that all kings
will be in love with it. No one can take their eyes off this place. I
will establish port cities there.”
Upon this order of the king, the Pergamon army set out to
the south under the leadership of its commanders. So much so

Fig.61: Attaleia Walls and Harbor

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