Cities of the World Educational Posters & Prints “Pe...-”
for social studies classrooms, home schoolers, theme decor for office and studio.

Pergamon, an ancient Greek city located in today's Turkey, was one of the seven locations of churches listed in the Book of Revelations (Ephesus, Smyrna, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia and Laodicea).

The acropolis of Pergamon was modeled on the acropolis of Athens.

Notable people associated with Pergamon include Galen.

Persepolis, the ruins of the ceremonial capital of the Achaemenid Empire (ca. 550-330 BCE), is situated northeast of the modern city of Shiraz, Iran.

The translation of Persepolis from the Greek is “Persian City”; in contemporary Persian, the site is known as Takht-e Jamshid (Throne of Jamshid). It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

• Persepolis: Takht-E-Jamshid

Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia and the fourth most populous city in Australia at 1,700,000 people.

Perth is in the top ten of the most livable world cities.

Petra, a historical and archaeological city in Jordan is famous for its rock cut architecture and water conduits system that created an artifical oasis that allowed the city to prosper.

Petra was founded sometime around the 6th century BC as the capital city of the Nabataeans and is a symbol of Jordan as well as its most visited tourist attraction.

Named a UNESCO World Heritage site as “one of the most precious cultural properties of man's cultural heritage”, it was also chosen by the BBC as one of the “40 places you have to see before you die”.

FYI ~ The archeological ruins called Mada'in Saleh, some 300+miles to the south of Petra, is another Nabataean site.