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Lydia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (374 words) |
 | Lydia was one of the first countries to mint coins (circa 650 BC), and Sardis was renowned as a beautiful city. |
| Croesus was beaten by Cyrus in 548 BC, and the kingdom became a province of the Persian Empire. |
| Straightforward deconstruction reveals a social upheaval, perhaps in the early 1st millennium BC (perhaps even after the age of Homer) in which the cult of Attis, the consort of Cybele, the Great Goddess of Anatolia, was introduced among the Maeones by a new dynasty. |
| Encyclopedia: 761 BC (122 words) |
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| June 15 763 BC - A solar eclipse at this date is used to fix the chronology of Mesopotamian history |
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