< 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
PHILADELPHIA, the Greek name (1) of a city in Palestine in the land of Ammon (see Ammonites), and (2) of a city so-called in honour of Attalus II. of Pergamum, the modern Ala-Shehr (q.v.).
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