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jedrevolutia t1_izxbjro wrote

Reply to comment by pgm123 in Egypt: Portraits of Egyptian Mummies Discovered in Ancient Philadelphia by IslandChillin

That's also another city called Philadelphia that is now becoming Amman, Jordan.

The one in the Bible is now named Alaşehir and is part of Turkiye. Try googling Alaşehir.

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pgm123 t1_izxbzmx wrote

Apologies. I stand corrected. I shouldn't try to do things off the top of my head before coffee.

The Greeks/Macedonian Greeks really weren't creative with names, were they? All the Philadelphias and Alexandrias make things confusing. It's a shame it couldn't have kept its name into the early modern period. I would be curious what the Turkified version of Philadelphia would be.

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