Look up: Lydia

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   Lydia
   a land that bordered Ionia on the east, lay north of Caria and south of Mysia; capital, Sardis; Lydia was a small kingdom until it grew into an empire in the wake of the fall of the Neo-Hittite kingdom; the Mermnadae dynasty ruled Lydia from c. 700 BCE to 550 BCE; coined money was invented in Lydia in 625 BCE; Croesus, Lydia's last ruler, was defeated by Cyrus the Great of Persia c.546 BCE and Lydia was absorbed into the Persian Empire.
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   Lydia
   Lydia was an ancient kingdom in Anatonia around 6 BC.
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   Lydia
   [n] - an ancient region on the coast of western Asia Minor
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   Lydia
   archaic or obsolete terms > Places: Ancient country, W Asia Minor, N of Caria and S of Mysia (now NW Turkey).
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   Lydia
   Ancient kingdom in Anatolia (7th-6th centuries BC), with its capital at Sardis. The Lydians were the first Western people to use standard coinage. Their last king, Croesus, was defeated by the...
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   Lydia
   noun an ancient region on the coast of western Asia Minor; a powerful kingdom until conquered by the Persians in 546 BC
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   Lydia
   `Lydia` (Assyrian: `Luddu`; Greek: `) is a historic region of western Asia Minor, congruent with Turkey's modern provinces of Izmir and Manisa. Its traditional capital was the city of Sardis. However, at its greatest extent, the Kingdom of Lydia covered all of western Anatolia. Lydia was later the name for a Roman province. Coins were invented in Lydia around 660 BC.
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   Lydia
   (from the article `Cato, Publius Valerius`) ...which seems to have been an erudite short epic (what modern scholars call an epyllion) that probably influenced subsequent poets. Lydia, which may ...
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   Lydia
   ancient land of western Anatolia, extending east from the Aegean Sea and occupying the valleys of the Hermus and Cayster rivers. The Lydians were ... [16 related articles]
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    Lydia
    Lydia is a Greek girl name. The meaning of the name is `woman from Persia, beauty ` Where is it used? The name Lydia is mainly used In English, German and In the bible.How do they say it elsewhere? Lidiya ( In Russian) Lidia ( In Polish and In Italian) Lydie ( In French) Lyydia ( In Finnish) Lyyti ( In Finnish) Lida ( In Czech) Lyda ( In Other langu
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    Lydia
    Lydia, ancient country, W Asia Minor, N of Caria and S of Mysia (now NW Turkey). The tyrant Gyges was the founder of the Mermnadae dynasty, which lasted from c.700 B.C. to 550 B.C. The little kingdom grew to an empire in the chaos that had been left after the fall of the Neo-Hittite kingdom. Lydia w...
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    Lydia
    Lydia (lid'ēu) , in the New Testament, Christian convert at whose house in Philippi Paul stayed. She was from Thyatira.
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