Perperene

{{Short description|Ancient city now in Turkey}}

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Perperene{{Pronunciation-needed}} ({{langx|grc|Περπερηνή}} Perperini) or Perperena (Περπερήνα Perperina) was a city of ancient Mysia on the south-east of Adramyttium, in the neighbourhood of which there were copper mines and good vineyards. It was said by some to be the place in which Thucydides had died.{{Cite Strabo|xiii. p.607}}{{Cite Pliny|5.32}} Stephanus of Byzantium calls the town Parparum or Parparon (Παρπάρων), but he writes that some called the place Perine.{{Cite Stephanus|s.v. Παρπάρων}} Ptolemy calls it Perpere or Permere.{{Cite Ptolemy|5.2.16}} According to the Suda, Hellanicus of Lesbos, a 5th-century BC Greek logographer, died at Perperene at age 85. At a later date it was given the name Theodosiopolis or Theodosioupolis (Θεοδοσιούπολις).{{Cite Hierocles|p. 661}}

It is located near Aşagı Beyköy, on the Kozak plateau near Bergama in the İzmir Province of Turkey in western Anatolia.{{Cite Barrington|56}}{{Cite DARE|24877}}