This page lists Kings of Lydia, an ancient Kingdom in western Anatolia, based on the city of Sardis. Lydia was an ancient kingdom of Asia Minor, known to Homer as Mæonia. ... Sardis, (also Sardes) the capital of the ancient kingdom of Lydia, the seat of a conventus under the Roman Empire, and the metropolis of the province Lydia in later Roman and Byzantine times, was situated in the middle Hermus valley, at the foot of Mt. ...
Lydia is a historic region of western Anatolia, congruent with Turkey's modern provinces of İzmir and Manisa.
When Cyaxares attacked Lydia, the kings of Cilicia and Babylon intervened and negotiated a peace in 585 BC, whereby the Halys was established as the Medes' frontier with Lydia.
It remained a satrapy after Persia's conquest by the Macedonian king Alexander the Great, going -after his death caused the empire to fall apart- to the major Asian diadoch dynasty, the Seleucids, till this was unable to maintain its territory in Asia Minor, Lydia falling to the Attalid dynasty of Pergamum.
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