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*as of ‘10 NOVEMBER 2023’*
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-an ‘iron age kingdom’ of ‘western asia minor’ located generally east of ‘ancient ionia’ in the modern western turkish provinces of ‘usak’, ‘manisa’, and ‘inland izmir’-
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(its population spoke an anatolian language known as “lydian”)
(Assyrian: Luddu; Greek: Λυδία, Turkish: Lidya)
At its greatest extent, the Kingdom of Lydia covered all of western Anatolia. Lydia (known as Sparda by the Achaemenids) was a satrapy (province) of the Achaemenid Persian Empire, with Sardis as its capital. Tabalus, appointed by Cyrus the Great, was the first satrap (governor). (See: Lydia (satrapy).)
(“lydia” was later the name of a roman province)
(‘coins’ are said to have been invented in ‘lydia’ around the ‘7th century BCE’)
(“the 600s” (BCE))
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